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Likewise, “A Love Before Time” is a pleasant piece, nicely performed by Coco Lee but hardly among the most memorable parts of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” At least it’s mildly enjoyable, which is more than can be said for “My Funny Friend and Me,” a sleepy Sting-performed track that seems entirely ill-suited for Disney’s hilarious and manic “The Emperor’s New Groove.” The Newman track is among his worst Oscar nominations.

“Things Have Changed” may be listenable but nothing about it much stands out. This time around, Bob Dylan was the victorious one and, much like Wonder’s Oscar winning tune was no “Superstition” or “My Cherie Amour,” Dylan’s track is hardly among the best from his discography.

Voters’ selection, “Things Have Changed,” isn’t a terrible winner but it does ring somewhat of the victory for “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” That is, it marked what could potentially be the sole occasion to honor an unimpeachable music legend at the Oscars. Indeed, with the exception of a single bold nominee, 2000 Best Original Song was not unlike many recent line-ups of the category, a middling, mostly vanilla bag of tracks awfully difficult to get hyped about. Instead, voters opted to give Randy Newman a 14th Oscar nomination, for his two-minute song from “Meet the Parents.”

The dawn of a new millennium could have marked a remarkable turn of the page for the Oscars in Best Original Song, away from the ho-hum adult contemporary that so often dominated the category over the past three decades, and toward modern artists like Aaliyah, Destiny’s Child and Janet Jackson, who, with “Try Again” (from “Romeo Must Die) “Independent Women Part 1” (from “Charlie’s Angels”) and “Doesn’t Really Matter” (from “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”) performed terrific tunes eligible for consideration in 2000. Should’ve won: “I’ve Seen It All” from “Dancer in the Dark” Won: “Things Have Changed” from “Wonder Boys”

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