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There's plenty of songs I hear from early 2000s or 2010s that give nostalgia and remind me of high school or different periods of my youth.
But there's also songs that I hear that give me the immediate "ughhh, turn it off! So sick of hearing it!" Even though I actually haven't heard it in years.
Mine would be:
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
Fireflies - Owl City (loved this song at first, but it was a main track at a store I worked at so I probably heard it thousands of times 😬)
Tattoo - Jordin Sparks
Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy
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I GOT A FEELING
THAT TONIGHTS GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT
Worst part is that Ive heard this at almost every wedding I've been to since then.
Just let it die.
My sister and her husband played it at theirs for the walk back down the aisle. Even then, it felt like the cheapest, most generic newly popular song to choose. What happened to choosing music that showed who the couple is??
Perhaps it was showing who the couple was.
Can't it's our generation's "Celebration"
Oh man that’s so accurate
For me, it was:
To the left, take it back now y’all. One hop this time. Right foot let’s stomp!
Even as a teacher now, we still play this at school dances back-to-back with the Cupid Shuffle.
The Cupid Shuffle?
That song is sooo boring and bland. I'd rather do the Stanky Leg.
Let it go?
No, LET'S LIVE IT UP!
TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
This is always played at sporting events and I haaaate it.
This is also my answer.
I fucking hate that song. It was everywhere.
I also never had a good night when I heard that song. It’s cursed
I got a flat tire going 65 down the highway while that song was on.
This is the only answer that 100% of us should agree on. I hate this so so so much.
Oh no. I had buried that song so deep I didn't recognize the lyrics so I started singing them in my head in different tempos til it came back to me
and now it won't go away 🫠
This has turned into a great thread for finding music to add to my nostalgia playlist 😂
hahahah yup the whole time I'm thinking whoaaa I forgot about that song, let me listen to it rn
Strange, I like all of those songs you listed because they're nostalgic.
I remember around 2009/2010 Jason Derulo was popular. I swear, I couldn't have gone 20 seconds without hearing:
"WhAt yOu sAaAaAaAaY"
on the radio. Bonus annoying points for the fact that I'd be driving to a very difficult/tiring job when I'd be listening to the radio.
The Imogen Heap song is so good tho 😭
Hide & Seek is outstanding.
By far the best Imogen Heap song is "The Happy Song". Such a banger.
I like the snl short with this song. So ridiculous!!!
Which was a skewer of this scene from The OC. That SNL short is nostalgia inside nostalgia. Nostalgiaception.
California Girls by Katie Perry. It was inescapable
Also unforgettable and undeniable
I see what you did there
Hot and Cold for me. But that might also have to do with the fact that my college roommate would play it on repeat every single day for like two weeks.
The best thing Katie Perry did was introduce us to Left Shark.
Amen to that
i was gonna say Teenage Dream
Firework 😑
Would rather listen to Teenage Dream than Firework.
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
Seriously, what the hell was on Joey’s head? Why they gotta leave us with a cliffhanger like that!
Frosted tips
This song was inescapable in high school, I had a radio alarm clock and every FUCKING MORNING that song woke me up to the point I changed the alarm time but IT DIDN'T MATTER. ANY TIME I SET IT FOR I STILL WOKE UP TO "LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH" it actually made me go insane. Try living in Canada and not hearing Nickelback in the 2000s, it COULDN'T BE DONE. Sorry apparently I still have rage about that FUCKING SONG. Now I see stupid ass op-eds like "Nickelback wasn't actually bad lol it was just trendy to hate on them"... THAT IS INCORRECT, don't say that shit to me in the 2020s when you have no idea what I went through. You don't know 😫
I distinctly remember one morning in college turning on MTV in the morning. "I never made it as a wise man-" *click to MTV2 * "Never made it as a wise man-" hurry to VH1 "Never made it-" TV off My brother and I just say in silence until it was time to leave.
The Reason -- Hoobastank. Never has a song destroyed a group moreso than that overplayed song. They were never the same. Big fans of theirs seemed turned off by a corny love song while those in love with that song were not happy that it was a noisy alt band
What sucks is I really liked their music but they just left relevancy after even though they’re apparently still together
I was reading down the comments waiting for this one. I will change the radio to this day if it comes on.
I had a big fight with my high school boyfriend over nothing and we made up while this song was playing and now hearing it just makes me cringe.
Ah the blunder years.
Came here to say this. I still can’t stand that song.
I was gonna say Hey There Delilah but honestly, I still love that song, lol
That song and You’re Beautiful by James Blunt.
For a while I felt this about “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield, but now it just makes me nostalgic.
This one for sure. Uuuuggghhhhhh
Now that you mention it, I remember that playing all the time but I don't hate it. It's not an immediate skip when it comes on. Lol
The one that makes me rage is THIS _ GIRL _ IS _ ON _ FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeEeeE333EEEEEEEEEEEE (repeated x392).
I can't. I will yeet the entire radio.
Umbrella by rihanna . I worked my first retail job and that song would always be playing.
Ella Ella ella
Mine is "Hello" by Adele. It played multiple times an hour during my part-time job in college, and to this day I cannot stand it
The damn cup song from that Pitch Perfect movie. I was a college student volunteering with an after school program at my local Y at the time the movie/song came out (2012ish?). The kids were obsessed with cup stacking and that stupid song. It makes me want to commit crimes when I hear it now because I heard it (and the damn cups being stacked) so much.
Ricky Martin - livin la vida loca
It was always one of the three songs I heard on the radio during the bus ride to school.
I can taste the 1999 from here when that song plays.
Like Bonnebell Lip Smackers and Surge.
Were the other two Oops I Did It Again and Thank You?
Cuz I too remember that 1999 bus ride...
Santana - Smooth has to be one of them.
PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIIIIIGHT!
I was at a concert when they debuted that song, thought it was ok then but I had no idea this shit was going to make me wanna die 4 months later
…. AND I WAS LIKE BABY, BABY, BABY OOOOHHH. Get. Out. Of. My. Head!!
I could tolerate this song back then, but hearing it now knowing it's a 13 year old singing it creeps me out. Lol
“Happy” by Pharrell Williams is probably my least favorite song of all time and I’m a pretty happy guy believe it or not, but not when that song comes on
This song is THE WORST and I've been the biggest Pharrell fan my entire life. This one is just criminal
Yeah, I didn't like it then, heard it way too much, dislike it even more now. It also makes me irrationally annoyed/aggravated.
This wins. I think I read somewhere that Pharrell hates it too
Blurred Lines.