A Definitive Ranking of EVERY Song from Aaron Carter's Aaron's Party (Come Get It) Album (in honor of its 25TH ANNIVERSARY!)

 Welcome Back to Disney! 👋😊🎉I hope you enjoyed my last post on A Definitive Ranking of Every Song from Aaron Carter’s Debut Album, and that you’re ready for some more NOSTALGIC FUN down music memory lane.🎶💿 ‘Cause today, as promised in my last post from yesterday, we’re continuing with Aaron Carter’s discography and talking all about his SECOND and one of his MOST ICONIC albums, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It).🥳And me posting about this today worked out perfectly, because TODAY actually marks 25 YEARS since this album by Aaron Carter was released!?!🤯😲 SO CRAZY, right? So, let’s get into CELEBRATING this ICONIC album!🎉💿🎶❤️🤍💙

Like I mentioned before, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) (GREAT title by the way👍😊) is the second studio album by American pop singer Aaron Carter. It served as the follow-up to his international debut album, Aaron Carter. Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) was released in the fall of 2000. On September 26, 2000 to be exact, and it was his FIRST album under Jive Records. This album includes the popular hit singles “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)”, “I Want Candy”, “Bounce”, and “That’s How I Beat Shaq”. Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA for selling over 3 million copies in the U.S., and it was also certified gold in Canada for selling over 50,000 copies.👏👏Therefore, apparently making it Aaron’s most successful album.👏 Which makes sense. The album also ranked at #35 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart in 2001.👏

Like I also mentioned in my last post, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) is quite different and unique from his first album because it’s not only mostly pop music, a little less bubblegum pop, but it also has hip-hop elements added to it as well. All of the songs on the standard edition of this album are also separated by interludes. Which are added in the pre-gaps of each song. Their lengths span from a one-second-long interlude titled “Let’s Go” to a skit over a minute long titled “Teacher”. In some regions “(Have Some) Fun with the Funk” (also heard on Pokémon: The First Movie soundtrack) and “Hang On Sloopy” were released as bonus tracks, bringing those releases’ total number of songs to 14. Some releases of Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) also have differences. For instance, instead of “Hang On Sloopy” as a bonus track, the U.K. edition of the album included “Jump Jump”, which was also featured on the test pressing of the album. The European version of Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) notably added “Life Is a Party” (also heard on The Other Me soundtrack). While the Japanese edition not only had all four of those bonus tracks mentioned (“Life Is a Party”, “(Have Some) Fun with the Funk”, “Jump Jump”, and "Hang on Sloopy”) but it also had a spoken “Aaron Message” and a completely different album cover. To which some versions of said cover include it being completely orange, apart from a circle around Aaron Carter’s face at a party. The party cover is the main cover for some other editions as well. 

When it came to promotion and touring for this album, the songs “Girl You Shine”, “I Want Candy”, “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)”, “That’s How I Beat Shaq”, and “Bounce” were played frequently on Radio Disney. Whereas the videos of “I Want Candy”, “That’s How I Beat Shaq”, “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)”, and “Bounce” received heavy rotation on MTV, BET, VH1, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon. Aaron Carter also made several appearances on Nickelodeon and opened concerts for the ONE and ONLY BRITNEY SPEARS AND the Backstreet Boys. Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) was certified platinum in late 2000.👏One of his songs “Iko Iko” was also featured in the 2000 movie The Little Vampire, and was later included on the soundtrack album of that movie, which was released ten days before the movie premiere. 

Like I also mentioned briefly before, “Girl You Shine” was featured on Radio Disney Jams, Vol. 2 in early 2000, and “Bounce” is featured on Radio Disney Jams, Vol. 4. Aaron also promoted Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) by performing one of his MOST ICONIC songs EVER, on one of the BEST and MOST ICONIC episodes of Lizzie McGuire EVER, “Here Comes Aaron Carter” aka “Aaron Carter’s Coming to Town”, which premiered on March 23, 2001. That same month, Aaron Carter and fellow teen star Samantha Mumba performed at a concert held at Disney MGM Studios that aired on Disney Channel titled Aaron Carter and Samantha Mumba in Concert. Aaron’s part of the concert can be seen on the DVD Aaron’s Party: Live in Concert along with the music video of “That’s How I Beat Shaq”. That DVD also includes clips of Aaron at Disney World, his 13th birthday party, and of him recording his then-upcoming album Oh Aaron. In the summer of 2001, on June 17, 2001 to be exact, Aaron embarked on the Aaron’s Party Tour, with his older sister Leslie Carter and the Swedish pop group A*Teens as the opening acts, as well as the boy band No Authority at various stops. 

Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) received mixed reviews from music critics. Not that I like to put a spotlight such negative reviews, but Jon Azpiri from AllMusic did give the album two out of five stars and wrote that, like “bubblegum acts of the past” the only value of the album is to be “pure kitsch” and the album being “the sort of album you look back on years after it’s release and mock with ironic glee”.👎👎To which I strongly disagree with those comments. I mean, for this being an album by a 13-year-old it’s GREAT. And I feel like Aaron Carter’s albums were SO ahead of their time with all the intros and interlude stuff he included in them, because I can’t think of anyone before Aaron Carter that did that kind of stuff when it came to albums. So, again, you gotta give credit where credit is due. And most artists/singers are copying that same music formula nowadays. Yes, some of the songs on this album you can laugh about, but not in the same way in which that reviewer was meaning. In other words, it's not like, "Oh, that's funny because it's terrible." It's more-so like, "Oh, that's funny because it's cute and him singing it being a young kid/teen makes it funny." Plus, a lot of early 2000s music is funny just because of what was popular and considered "in" at that time that wouldn't necessarily be as "cool" today. But honestly, this album, for the age that Aaron was when he made it, I think it would still be a HIT today. At least in my book.👍😊

However, Jon Azpiri wasn’t the only one who gave this album a negative review. As David Browne from Entertainment Weekly described Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) as “a collection of rhythmic, ultra disposable jingles delivered in the chirpy voice of its leading tyke”, and he gave the album a C-.👎To which, again, I strongly disagree with. I mean, seriously what did they expect to hear from a 13-year-old boy at the time? Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone also gave Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) two out of five stars and wrote that Aaron Carter “discovers the thrills of impending puberty with a helping hand from “My Internet Girl” and chirps the least metaphorical version of “I Want Candy” ever.” He also criticized Aaron’s voice, calling it “too Buffy” and “not Jody enough”. Okay, well, I don’t have any clue who Buffy or Jody is, and “My Internet Girl” is a BOP, and Aaron’s version of “I Want Candy” is the GREATEST and the ONLY VERSION of that song that I’ve ever heard in my life and the only version I care to listen to. So, again, I strongly disagree with that review. Again, that’s why reviews like that don’t really matter (at least to me), because the fans know what’s up when it comes to their favorite artists. Which is why I’m creating this post to give this album all the LOVE and APPRECIATION it deserves.😊‘Cause clearly those music critics didn’t know what they were listening to. Where's the girl/women reviewers at, because those reviews just sounded like male jealousy to me.

When it comes to my memories of this album and how I got introduced to it, became a fan. Basically, it’s what I mentioned briefly before in my last post (which you can read here), but in 2005 my older sister (Ariel) got the CDs of this album and Aaron Carter’s Another Earthquake album, and whenever she got those CDs. I actually vividly remember hanging out with her in her room and us listening to both of those CDs together. Which is the earliest memory I have of hearing this album for the FIRST TIME. And then I also have the vivid, special memory of my family and I listening to my sister's CD of this album on our way to see Aaron Carter in concert at Six Flags where we lived in 2005.

So, I already knew all of these songs from this album before going into creating this post. But it had been SO LONG since I had last listened to this album, probably since 2005 when I was eight-years-old. So this time re-listening to it, I didn’t remember a lot of the songs so well. At least as well as I knew “I Want Candy”, because “I Want Candy” is just a song that I’ve always heard the most, more than any other song on the album. And that’s just because throughout my kid, tween, and teen years I would watch that Lizzie McGuire episode, which that specific song is featured in, like every Christmas.🎄And I still try to make it a priority to watch that Lizzie McGuire episode every year during Christmastime. So, "I Want Candy" was actually the only song from this album that I listened to not too long before doing this. Just last year actually, in December, because of that episode.

Speaking of that ICONIC and TRULY UNFORGETTABLE Lizzie McGuire episode, that’s also one of my earliest memories when it comes to this album specifically. Catching reruns of that episode as a kid in the mid-2000s and hearing “I Want Candy” for the first time. Which again, I don’t remember if I saw that episode and therefore also heard that song before that day my sister got Aaron Carter's CDs and we listened to the whole album, but it was one or the other. Either way, I definitely knew about this album as a kid. But again, I also knew about it later than when it was actually originally released, because it was released in 2000 and in 2000 I was just three-years-old. So I was still too young then to know anything about Aaron Carter, let alone this album. But in 2005 is when Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) came into my life. Into existence for me.

So, yeah, I have some fond special memories of listening to this album when I was a kid. I didn’t listen to it much after 2005 for some reason, probably because  I was still pretty young once I did find out about it, and then that ship kind of sailed pretty fast once other kid things I was interested in came about. But it was also just because I never owned his CDs, my sister did. So they weren’t mine to be able to listen to whenever I wanted and that was like one of the only ways to listen to music back then was by having the CDs, because YouTube wasn’t even a thing yet and there wasn’t streaming sites for music either. But when I was 18 or 19 and went through my Aaron Carter and Backstreet Boys phase (as I also mentioned in my last post here), I did come across and watch a few of his music videos and performances for some of the songs from this album. But even then, to my recollection, for some reason I never decided to re-listen to the whole album at that time either, like I decided to do now, recently, for this blog post.🤔So, I just had the BEST time going back to re-listen to this album. I had actually forgotten which specific songs I already knew and remembered were from which album, but then once I saw the track list for Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) and played each song I was like “Oh, yeah, I remember this song!” So, there was definitely a lot of that being said in my head about the songs that take a little bit of a backseat and aren’t the most well-known ones from the album. The more deep cut ones. All that to say, I was hit with so much NOSTALGIA while re-listening to this album in all the BEST ways of course. It was a FUN time for sure. And I just can’t wait any longer to dive more into this album and share with you my ranking of the songs. So, let’s get into A Definitive Ranking of Every Song from Aaron Carter’s Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) Album! 🎉❤️🤍💙🎶💿

Just a brief note before we begin: As I mentioned earlier, there were a few bonus songs that were included on other international editions of Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) that were not included on the U.S. version. Four bonus songs to be exact. And I couldn’t not talk about them. So, I did add those four bonus tracks to the list of songs from this album, and ranked them amongst all the other songs that were included on the U.S. edition of this album. So, instead of just the 12 songs, that made it 16 total songs that I ranked for this. Now, for real this time, people all around you got (to come get it!), everyone together sing it loud (come get it!), I want to see ya bounce, you don’t have to tell me what you want, just be sure you know how to have a real good time, and let’s finally get into A Definitive Ranking of Every Song from Aaron Carter’s Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) Album!🎉❤️🤍💙🎶💿

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(from LEAST to MOST FAVORITE)...

#16 "Introduction: Come to the Party"

#15 "Interlude: Big Bad 'Shine-y' Beat Box"

#14 "Hang on Sloopy"

#13 "The Clapping Song"

#12 "Iko Iko"

#11 "Jump Jump"

#10 "(Have Some) Fun with the Funk"

#9 "My Internet Girl"

#8 "Girl You Shine"

#7 "That's How I Beat Shaq"

#6 "Bounce"

#5 "Life Is a Party"

#4 "I Want Candy"

#3 "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)"

#2 "Real Good Time"

#1 "Tell Me What You Want"

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Well, that concludes A Definitive Ranking of Every Song from Aaron Carter’s Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) Album!🎉🎶💿❤️🤍💙I really enjoyed getting to go back and listen to this album, and I hope that you enjoyed this post as much as I did creating it. Like I said before, the NOSTALGIA was REAL while listening to this album. In all the BEST ways. And I actually listened to this album more than once all the way through. Well, within the past three months, but still that should say something about how GREAT this album TRULY is. Especially if you’re a fan of Aaron Carter, of NOSTALGIA, early 2000s music, and just feel-good music in general. 

Surprisingly this was a little easier of an album to rank compared to Aaron Carter’s first one, but the songs in my TOP, like, 6 were the hardest to rank. And definitely the ones in my TOP 3, those were even harder to rank. 'Cause I really do LOVE all the songs ranked in my TOP 3. Those three songs are very interchangeable, ones that I kept going back and forth on quite a few times, and depending on the day and how I'm feeling I feel like either one of those could be #1. But as of right now, I feel good about where I ranked all of these songs on this list.👍😊

Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) was another CUTE, VERY NOSTALGIC, FUN, and UNIQUE album. Again, when it comes to this album and his next two albums, Aaron was definitely ahead of his time with the intros and interludes and stuff. And this album just truly encapsulates those early 2000s vibes, and it took me right back to those special childhood days of mine. Which is why all of the songs made me quite sad and just emotional, even though they are all supposed to be happy songs. Which, I just realized, this is Aaron’s only album to not have one sad song or one more emotional song. They are all just mostly happy songs. Which is not a bad thing at all. It's actually refreshing and just even more GREAT for that reason alone. Although , I would vouch and say that “Tell Me Want You Want” is probably the most emotional and more ballad-y type song. But again, this album being mostly just an album full of happy, feel-good songs unlike most of his other albums, makes this album even all the more SPECIAL and UNIQUE. Like I said before, Aaron Carter killed it with this album, and for it to only have been his SECOND one is amazing, because it could have been a hit or a miss. 'Cause you know how sophomore albums can go. And what’s interesting is that this album sounds like it would be his FIRST album (which is kind of why I used to think it was), and it definitely works as like a new intro to him as an artist even though it wasn’t. It all just works in all the BEST ways. This album, and a lot of the songs on it, are just pretty genius and special.😊

Overall, I would definitely listen to this album again someday, especially if I just wanted to listen to some old early 2000s music and feel all that nostalgia again. And I would suggest anyone to listen to this album again even after reading this post, because it’s worth it. Plus, this was a ranking with the songs out of order from their original track listing, so I do recommend listening to the album at least once from beginning to end in chronological order, because that’s always the best way to listen to an album you've never heard before. At least it's actually the way I prefer to listen to an album that I’ve never heard before. 

Well, now I’m just SO EXCITED to get to talk about Aaron Carter’s next albums, because they definitely get even more interesting and more NOSTALGIC. A couple of them even better than this one. Maybe one, not so much, but trust me they're still all worth the listen. So, make sure you hit that follow button to get notified when my next post goes up, comment down below what your favorite song(s) is/are from Aaron’s Party (Come Get It), and come Back to Disney soon for more FUN, NOSTALGIA, and just GREAT Aaron Carter MUSIC because you’re definitely invited to the party!👋❤️🤍💙🎉🎶💿✌️Oh, and HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY again, to this ICONIC album!!

P.S. Also, I just want to say, I do not excuse or support the harmful and problematic things Aaron Carter may have done. I have compassion for what he went through and appreciate his talent and music, and I ultimately just choose to remember the good Aaron that was, before all the bad.