I couldn’t tell you why, but I have been feeling incredibly nostalgic as of late. Maybe it’s because childhood feels better and so much simpler than life now. Honestly, please give me a juice box and crayons and turn on “Rugrats,” please. Even middle school dances, however awkward, sound like heaven compared to adulthood and responsibility.
Anyway, as an homage to our collective childhoods, here are some songs that you can listen to that will take you right back to grade school.
Warning: some of these songs are more inappropriate than you’ll remember. Just saying.
- Gwen Stefani, “Hollaback Girl”
- Shakira, “Hips Don’t Lie”
- The Spice Girls, “Wannabe”
- Usher, Lil Jon, Ludacris, “Yeah!”
- Sean Kingston, “Beautiful Girls”
- NSYNC, “Bye Bye Bye”
- Outkast, “Hey Ya!”
- Justin Timberlake, “SexyBack”
- Britney Spears, “Toxic”
- Avril Lavigne, “Sk8r Boi” (or “Complicated”...or “Girlfriend”)
- Sean Paul, “Temperature”
- Rihanna, “Disturbia” or “Umbrella”
- Bowling for Soup, “1985”
- Literally anything by the All American Rejects
- Backstreet Boys, “I Want It That Way”
- Vanessa Carlton, “A Thousand Miles”
- The Killers, “Mr. Brightside”
- Smash Mouth, “All Star”
- Kanye West, “Stronger”
- Kelly Clarkson, “Since U Been Gone”
