Let’s take a look back at one of the most annoyingly catchy songs of the early 2000s – Aaron Carter’s “That’s How I Beat Shaq." Every few years there comes along a song that despite being mass-marketed pop drivel is so ridiculously infectious it lodges itself in the brain and simply refuses to leave. Over the past decade, songs like PSY’s “Gangnam Style” and Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” have dominated the airwaves and abused society’s collective earholes while being impossible to shake off.

Maybe it was a by-product of millennium fever, but for some reason the turn of the new millennium was positively brimming with annoyingly catchy pop songs. It was the era that produced singles like Baha Men’s “Who Let The Dogs Out?”, Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…)” and the aural assault that was Europop hit “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by Eiffel 65, which later found its way into Iron Man 3. Songs that were near impossible to get out of your head – short of a lobotomy, perhaps.

Another not-so-shining example of new millennium pop was the then 13-year-old Aaron Carter’s outrageously catchy but absolutely inane song “That’s How I Beat Shaq.” The song was first unleashed upon the world via Carter’s 2000 album Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) and was released as a single in February 2001. Featuring a ridiculously catchy chorus, the song and video tell the tale of how Aaron Carter improbably beat the legendary Shaquille O’Neal in an impromptu game of basketball and reduced him to tears. Check out the video in all its cheesy, infectiously annoying glory.

Aaron Carter’s “That’s How I Beat Shaq” even has its own plot twist, but not one in league with the likes of Eminem’s “Stan” or Immortal Technique’s “Dance With The Devil.” Rather, at the end of the song it turns out that it was all a dream which is basically the only way a five-foot-tall tween like Aaron Carter could ever have won Shaq at a game of basketball.

Shaq would exact revenge on Aaron Carter for besmirching his b-ball skills a decade later on his short-lived TruTV comedy series Upload With Shaquille O’Neal in a segment that featured the basketball giant challenging an adult Aaron to a rematch - and absolutely trouncing him. If only Shaq could perform some genie magic like he did in Kazaam and rid the world of “That’s How I Beat Shaq.”

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