Our middle school years were a magical time for music. If you're in college right now, you definitely jammed to all these songs in your middle school cafeteria. So put on your best new Hollister t-shirt and straighten your hair into another dimension, because we're about to go back in time to those embarrassing and incredible middle school dances.
1. "Fergalicious" by Fergie.
This song is the only reason you know how to spell "delicious," but you still can't spell "tasty" right on the first try. Why'd you put an 'e' in there, Fergie Ferg?
2. "Umbrella" by Rihanna.
You had the lyrics in your AIM profile, probably with a list of all your best friends' initials underneath.
3. "Paper Planes" by M.I.A.
Even though you didn't know what this song was about (or half the words), you and your friends definitely practiced elaborate hand motions to the sound effects.
4. "Low" by Flo Rida, featuring T-Pain.
You probably had a dance to this one, too, and now you've probably heard it at bars.
5. "No One" by Alicia Keys.
Alicia understood you like no one else did. You were too young for these feelings.
6. "1, 2 Step" by Ciara, featuring Missy Elliott.
We didn't know what a 1, 2 step was, but we definitely all did it.
7. "Yeah" by Usher, featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris.
Our moms hated this song because it only had three musical notes.
8. "When You Look Me in the Eyes" by the Jonas Brothers.
You definitely slow danced to this song with your middle school crush. They probably texted you before the dance to see if you would slow dance with them later.
9. "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls.
"THROW IT AWAY, FORGET YESTERDAY..."
10. "Same Girl" by R. Kelly and Usher.
This video was so iconic. The flip phones, the split screen, the FLIP PHONES.
11. "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado and Timbaland.
You definitely didn't know what this song meant, and you also definitely didn't care.
12. "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's.
This was #relationshipgoals before #relationshipgoals were a thing. (Also, this awful GIF edit really embodies the spirit of how we felt about this song, in my opinion).
13. "Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown.
Oh, Chris. Why did you have to turn out to be the worst?
14. "Burnin' Up" by the Jonas Brothers.
Even if you weren't THE crazy JoBros girl in middle school (like I was), you had to admit that this song was an instant classic. I bet you still remember how Nick sings "red dress."
15. "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis.
MORE FEELINGS YOU WERE TOO YOUNG TO FEEL.
16. "Disturbia" by Rihanna.
This got even better because of the Shia Labeouf movie.
17. "Ridin" by Chamillionaire.
What ever happened to Chamillionaire? Is he okay? Does anyone know?
18. "Face Down" by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
Has anyone figured out why they played a song about relationship abuse at middle school dances? No? All right.
19. "Smack That" by Akon.
"Konvict..... Music."
20. "Buy U a Drank" by T-Pain.
Like a lot of other songs on this list, "Buy U a Drank" was nasty. But we didn't know that then, and now it's a jam.
21. "Get Low" by Lil Jon.
"FROM THE WINDOOOOOOW TO THE WALL."
