Bardot are the best Australian girl band of all time* which is a big call to make but let’s be honest they don’t have much competition. The Popstars winners released two albums Bardot and Play It Like That before breaking up and seemingly never talking to each other ever again. Katie Underwood was the first to leave and if you’ve tracked the careers of Fifth Harmony or Spice Girls you’ll know as soon as one leaves the wheels fall off and the popstar train spirals out of control. So thanks Katie, you ruined Bardot for all of us.

17 years after the release of their debut album Sophie Monk is still chugging along in the spotlight, appearing as the first celebrity Bachelorette in Australia and doing a bloody good job. We though now would be as good a time as any to countdown Bardot’s best five songs.

* tied with Shakaya.

While we’ve got ya. We’re throwing an ’00s party early next month and we promise to play at least one or two of these songs. Check out our Facebook event here and get your tix here.

5. I Should’ve Never Let You Go

In hindsight this was a lesson to Australia that they really should’ve never let Bardot go. This slinky mid-tempo failed to make a mark on the Australian public but somehow it got to number one in Singapore which shows that Singapore was picking up our slack. Maybe Bardot never went away, maybe they just moved to Singapore and they’re the biggest girlband in Singapore? Also, that definitely didn’t happen.

4. A.S.A.P.

The first single of the second album hopped on the futuristic R&B train that was being championed by artists like Mya and Eve. Bardot’s crack at the genre is as authentic as a Louis Vuitton bag bought in Bali but you’ve gotta admit that chorus really has legs.

3. I Need Somebody

With Katie out of the band and the first single of the second album out of the way, Bardot were out to prove they still had hits in them. And they did. This Kylie-esque banger reached the top five of the ARIA Charts and is actually an A-grade pop song. Unfortunately, it was their second last single and ultimately proved that they did need somebody – Katie.

2. Love Will Find A Way

Somehow Bardot’s second best single was also their last. It saw them come down from space and find themselves on a farm where they make the most of their time by creating one of the best bops of the millennium. An undeniable pop/country crossover that would have Taylor Swift livid if she knew about it. File next to Emma Bunton’s What Took You So Long.

1. Poison

Being the best Bardot single of all time is not a hard task but being one of the greatest songs of the ’00s is not easy. Poison is a modern pop masterpiece and the kind of brilliance that eventuates when you keep Sophie Monk from a lead vocal (she literally does not have a lead part here). Ignore the fact the top comment on YouTube for this is “it was shit in 2000 and its still shit in 2016.” It’s unfounded and untrue.

Bonus Track: Sophie Monk – Inside Outside

Whenever someone tells us they’re surprised Monk has remained in the spotlight for 17 years we show them this song and say, “Are you really?”

Also after two and a half years together they parted ways and actually did a farewell concert as if they were Crowded House after four decades. Amazing: