These Are by far the Best Love Songs From the Early 2000s

This love song has the power to instantly hype up anyone. Plus, it’s by Beyoncé and Jay Z. The iconic couple never disappoints!

Leona Lewis probably didn’t intend for everyone to turn this song into a period joke. Aside from its fame for that, it does a good job of describing a super intense love!

While Taylor’s “You Belong With Me” clocks in at a close second, there’s no denying the charm of this Romeo and Juliet fantasy.

Good vibes only when listening to this song. The dialogue part will never lose its cute novelty, no matter how many times you give it a listen.

With lyrics like “closer than my peeps you are to me” and “shorty, you’re my angel,” you can't get any more romantic than this song in terms of ‘00s slang.

This song may be the most eloquent way of revealing that you’ve fallen in love at first sight with a random attractive stranger you saw on the street.

Anyone who didn’t know this song before TikTok knows it now as the song people are using to show what their pets look like now versus when they were younger—one of the best trends to come out of TikTok yet, IMO.

This song feels right for *the current times.* Raise your hand if you’re grappling with the fact it has been way too long since the last time you kissed someone IRL!

Need a soothing song to add to your beach jams playlist? This track will take you to a loving mental space you’ll never want to return from.

Does this song even need an explanation? It's gold! If it was possible to frame a song in the Louvre, we'd have to hang this one and incorporate Terry Crews's White Chicks performance of it into the display.

The lyrics “What day is it / And in what month?” hit quite close to home at the moment. A warped sense of time aside, this extremely sweet tune makes for the perfect soundtrack to any good happy-cry or sad-cry sesh.

Kelly Clarkson’s debut single has surely been played at many weddings and will continue to go down in history as a long-standing hit.

Pretty much every Michael Bublé song is soothing as hell, but this one feels like receiving a warm embrace and being told that everything's going to be more than okay.

When you take a step back from a relationship, you realize one of two things: You didn't need it or that was it. Mariah's "We Belong Together" clearly expresses the latter.

Whether you think of a one true love, relative, or friend when you hear this song, it makes you feel some type of way. At its core, it's about an attachment to somebody and a place, whoever and wherever that may be.

It’s a song of few phrases, but it doesn’t need much more than what it offers to get the point across!

Grey's Anatomy fans are practically conditioned to cry when they hear this song. Apart from that distressing association, you know you've found the one when you can just lie with them in utter silence and simply exist.

You can interpret this song in countless ways. In any case, it's about the type of love that involves appreciating your person no matter where life takes them.