This decade has seen a variety of talented artists release some songs that have touched our hearts, made our hips sway, and even left us wondering why we were so addicted to replaying them in the first place. Much has changed in the music industry since the beginning of the 20teens.

1D grew up, and their songs matured with them. Taylor Swift switched from a successful career in country to an even more renowned career in pop and R&B. Justin Bieber made a comeback from his boyish years, and Beyonce continues to sing her heavenly ballads that promote feminism, self-confidence, and sexy dancing.

Along with the aforementioned artists, many others have had their moment at the top of the charts at some point in this decade. Some of these other songs lasted through the test of time, and they still play on our radio occasionally, but others have faded just as fast as they entered into the spotlight. Every so often they resurface, but for the most part, these songs have been left in the past.

1. “Friday” by Rebecca Black

Remember when we woke up one Friday, and this song had spontaneously gone viral? (March 11, 2011 to be exact). Half of us hated it, and the other half of us pretended to hate it when in reality we secretly loved the catchy lyrics and made it our anthem for the weekend. Now that we look back, I think we can all agree that we’re ashamed for letting this song infect a majority of our speakers, and that’s why it has been suppressed from our memories. Even Rebecca Black admits that she’s “trying to get Friday out of her head” at the beginning of her new song “Saturday”.

2. “Sexy and I Know It.” by LMFAO“

Sexy and I Know It” was everybody’s jam when it originally released on September 16, 2011. However after making everyone feel confident for the few months that it profusely rang through the country’s radios, people realized that it was time to stop chanting “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle yeah!” whenever Redfoo and his gang shook their crotches at the camera. LMFAO, like the songs they wrote, became famous for a hot second before fading out of the public eye because their band broke up.

3. "Gangnam Style” by Psy

Let’s do a throwback to the time that we all obsessed over a song without knowing what 90% of the lyrics meant. In fact, some of us even had to fake singing the chorus, but apparently all that a song needs to become a hit is an easy (yet enjoyable) dance to accompany it. The world viewed the music video one billion times by December 21, 2012, making it the most watched YouTube video in history. Sadly, this song slowly phased out of our playlists, however this doesn’t mean that we won’t remember the dance whenever “Gangnam Style’ makes a comeback.

4. “Red Solo Cup” by Toby Keith

Even people who claim not to like country music have to admit that Toby Keith’s song deserved number 82 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs of 2012. College students played it while pregaming in their rooms and families blasted it at barbeques. Anytime that somebody drank from a Red Solo Cup, this song played in their head if it wasn’t already playing on their stereos. However, as is with most country songs, it quickly left the charts and our minds.

5. “Call me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen

This song was released in 2011, but it didn’t climb the charts until 2012. Teenagers everywhere, including myself, memorized every word of this fun and flirtatious song. 3.3 million people downloaded it off of iTunes in 269 days, and I bet that all 3.3 million of us remember the song from time to time, and when we do, we rock out and fantasize about giving some hottie our digits.

6. “What Does the Fox Say?” by Ylvis

Why this song ever touched the billboards is beyond me, but every tween swooned over it, trying to mimic the false fox noises while showing it to their parents and friends. Unfortunately, the lyrics got stuck in all of our heads, so we let it take ahold of the media for a few weeks before we grew tired of hearing,

“Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow! Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho! Joff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!....Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow! Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow! A-hee-ahee ha-hee!”

Honestly our generation should be ashamed for letting screeching gibberish replace actual, lyrical talent on the charts, even if it was just a joke. We can be thankful that the song has long since left our Facebook feeds and YouTube histories, but it’s disappointing that we never got a song that told us what the fox actually says.

7. “Harlem Shake” by Baauer

This song was well known for the flash mobs of uncoordinated dancing that accompanied it. YouTube exploded with videos of different groups (sports teams, classes, coworkers, and even army units) jamming to it while wearing a variety of wacky costumes. People would also blast the song in public, and one person would dance alone until the bass dropped. Then everyone would leap out and shake or dance wildly until the end. It kept society intrigued for a few months before it was overused, and then forgotten about

8. “Turn Down for What?” by DJ Snake and Lil John

First of all, if you haven’t seen this music video, then you need to go watch it because it is one of the strangest things that I have ever seen; it’s actually slightly disturbing. The song, however, is much better. It’s the perfect song for a party playlist, but just as quickly as everyone became obsessed with it, everyone stopped singing it, and we turned down the volume when it would play.

9. “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus

If we’re honest, this song only became popular because Miley Cyrus performed it naked while swinging on a wrecking ball and licking a sledge-hammer. I’m not discrediting the artistic aspect of the music video, but I am claiming that the sexualization of it allowed the song to become popular. Without Cyrus’ risque interpretation, the song never would have been named number 44 on Billboard’s 2014 Year End chart, but now we’ve moved on.

10. “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke

Thank god this song is out of our heads and off of our radios. I was disgusted when these lyrics about a man trying to sleep with a girl while they were both wasted and seeing “blurred lines” became popular. I was even more repulsed when the music video was released, and I saw the frame in which silver balloons spelled out “Robin Thicke has a big D”. Assuming that statement is true, I can say that his ego is just as large, which might explain why he seems to think that all of the girls “know [they] want it”. Let’s just sum this section up by saying that I’m glad the song has been forgotten about.

11. “Downtown” by Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis

I’m not sure if this song was a huge hit with the rest of the country, but I know that all of the residents in Spokane, Washington celebrated the song after discovering that the music video was being filmed in our downtown area. I admit to being just as stoked as the rest of them, but I also admit that the song was not that great. It sounds like three different songs mashed into one messy symphony. This could be my bitterness talking since I had to work on the day that the video was filmed, and therefore I could not be an extra, but I do believe that my opinion has some standing because the song is already fading from the spotlight.

We loved them, and we hated them, but regardless of what we thought of them as individuals, the nation seemed to enjoy them, so we had to put up with them for the short while that they ruled our speakers. I’m excited to see what the rest of the decade has in store for our playlists, our car-radios, and Vevo. Bring it on 2016-2019!