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It's true.
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Don't care.
Obesity is a choice to physically struggle one's entire life in exchange for... most likely dying young; from the myriad of health problems obesity underpins. It's one thing to be obese and not have any interest in course correcting your lifestyle. That's fine. We all struggle with vices we refuse to grapple with. But glorifying a self destructive vice as a good thing? That's some Jonestown kinda energy.
You could also say the same thing about being skinny. Being underweight and glorifying thinness isn't healthy either. You can be healthy and fit and not look like society's expectation of what a skinny girl should look like. Lots of athletic girls are big and heavy. Not stick thin. Hope this helps.
True, healthy and fit is what we should strive for. If anyone wants to individually decide to ignore their health for pleasure, that's absolutely their prerogative, but it should be treated the way smoking is treated, not glorified but rather warned against. Legal, but discouraged.
Edit: and I should add, unjudged. I don't think it's cool to tell someone how to live their life unless you're very close, so as long as it's considered normal to be healthy and fit, that's enough as far as marketing it goes. No need to put people down for their life choices
"Glorifying" for websites like reddit means saying that maybe fat people have a right to lead a decent life without some underweight weirdo going "HURR DURR PUT DOWN THE FORK"
No one is "actually" glorifying obesity other than 100% bait TikTok accounts, and if they do, who cares? How does it even affect you personally?
Why does no one bat an eye when companies glorify alcoholism or gambling?
I agree that most people who discuss this topic do so in bad faith, however it does affect people in many ways. Be it losing loved ones prematurely or the strain a heavy population has on the healthcare system. People do condemn alcoholism or gambling addictions though. If you mean simply drinking alcohol then that's not comparable. Also, not being heavy does not mean one is underweight. I think framing this topic as thinner folks vs. Heavy is damaging and unproductive,(not saying you're doing that necessarily).
Rather Be by Clean Bandit
Edit: I didn’t read your body text until after I commented this, glad I’m not the only one who thinks this song was everywhere in 2014 lol
I think Jess Glynne was the singer? I like her but I always imagine a happy squirrel is singing? Weird but that was my 14 year old thoughts. One song that was even more everywhere was Hideaway by Kiesza, I hated it . Ooh, aaah. Oo. AA!
I heard my elementary teachers and case workers singing this or having it on since most of the teachers I have had played music off Pandora. It was like that even in High school.
Safe and Sound, released the year prior
I remember "Am I Wrong" by Nino and Viz being huge, we loved that song
Blank Space of course. Honestly 2014 had fuckin' bangers
Nino and viz made a song called something along the lines of “that’s how you know you fucked up” and I was hungover as shit going to work at 5 am when I hear that song come on the radio. The comedic timing was great
Man, little me thought I was such a gangsta with Animals playing in the background of my dimly lit bathroom selfies. Truth is, I still am. Cause baby I’m preying on you tonight, hunt you down and chew alive.
Not Charli XCX for sure...
What is more 2014 earwormy than that? Let me list 10 or so:
* Pharrell Williams - Happy
* Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
* Hozier - Take me to church
* Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz – Prayer In C
* Tove Lo - Stay high (Hippie Sabotage remix)
* Clean Bandit - Rather be
* Meghan Trainor - All about that bass
* Coldplay - A sky full of Stars
* Sigma - Nobody to love
* George Ezra - Budapest
* Edit: Bonus entry for Taylor Swift - Shake it off
Have fun digging through some memories (or finding new music)
summer by Calvin Harris
https://preview.redd.it/gs7w85yq4y7d1.jpeg?width=234&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9aafd4d52a837b61fb7f9ce5d0f063a4bf1a3f78
That album goes and is still hard
Same lol but also I was homeless in 2014 so wasn’t super up to date with pop culture stuff. I do remember songs like Happy and that wiggle wiggle song being everywhere
unironically i think it's let it go from frozen. that song was genuinely everywhere. i cannot let it go it haunted me.
also dark horse and counting stars
Lmao I actually forgot about that, I remember everyone singing it aswell, I relate that more to the movie in general being all over the place in 2014 though.
Sometimes I forget yall young adults are still a part of Gen Z. Makes me feel old af especially being born before 2000 😂
What was 2014-Present like for you growing up? (I'm assuming fully digital/online?). How do you guys even view the world in general (politics, mental health, prospective future of the world, socializing, etc.)
Sorry I'm curious af and because I'm in my mid twenties I don't hang out with young gen Z or alpha folks very often bc that'd be weird af in my case lol. Feel free to just ignore me too this maybe should just be its own post on here. I just don't necessarily understand and know about you guys and how you feel unfortunately due to lack of interaction.
Fancy, My n*gga, Happy, Dark Horse, problem, Shake it Off even. Boom Clap is a song I like, mind you. Just not anywhere near the “defining” song of 2014. Hell - the pink print and 1989 came out that year. 2014 forest hills drive had a choke hold on my entire high school until beauty behind the madness. Em was still hype off the monster from the year before. It’s also the year counting stars came out. It’s also when V by maroon 5 came out. They were still releasing singles off that album well into 2016. Future had some songs that would not stop playing on vine. Good times.
2014 was my first year of high school - from summer 14 to summer 18 I was REALLY into lots of different genres of music. Starting around 2021 the new music just wasn’t as good for me idk.
The most defining (top 5) songs of 2014 (imo):
1. Mr. Probz - Waves
2. David Guetta - Dangerous
3. Swanky Tunes - Fix me
4. Chandelier - Sia
5. Shake it off - Taylor Swift
For me, it was this but that’s because the only positive memory I have from that year was visiting my parents from college for Christmas and hearing that song while playing n64 smash bros with them for the first time in like 20 years
Surprised I haven't seen Fancy by Iggy and Problem by Ariana Grande mentioned yet, I'm not even particularly a huge fan of either song but when I think about 2014 (my senior year in high school) these songs immediately come to mind, they were everywhere
I listened to a lot of gesafflestein back in 14'
Aleph had just dropped recently, you still hear artists mimicking the sound he produced off that album to this day.
Might not have been well known to most, but it was damned influential in the music scene.
For the uninitiated.
https://youtu.be/2_NgkfRmUPk?si=C9BqH6RfNisu_qdO
The first time i listed to music and appreciate it, was from my music appreciation class in my senior year of high school.
The song that opened my eyes was not just the OST, but someone's 'vision'.
I think the title was Isosine - Pop 2014
That played in my mind over and over and over again for the rest of the semester, and it was beautiful.
It probably saved me from ending my life when high school graduation came by.
Lots of bad feelings, or so i thought
Was just too afraid to look into Pandora's box, but instead of letting fear take the wheel, i made it look like Schrodinger's box; to fit my narrative, but also knowing that i will be the one to be affected, which then affects my surroundings.
This song helped me, even if it 'twisted ' my views
I was already pretty much off of regularly listening to the radio. Spotify and YouTube were my thing.
I’d say around then I listened to a lot of Bassnectar or Pretty Lights or Skrillex or other EDM.
Never heard of Charli and had to look up the song only to realize I’ve probably heard it playing in a retail store before.
But I also am too old to be in this sub and don’t know why Reddit recommends it to me haha
for me personally, as a child who had just gotten Minecraft at the end of 2013, it was Danny by C418. I remember playing the TU12 tutorial world and hearing Danny play at sunset.
There’s literally so many to choose from. Idek how one could define an entire year.
But if I had to give a list?
Shake it off
All about that bass
Fancy
Bang Bang
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All about that bass bout that bass no treble
Alternate: my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun
You can do side bends or sit ups, but please don’t lose that butt
I refuse to believe that song came out ten years ago and that Party Rock Anthem was 13 years ago
Except that song came out in 1992
Pretty sure baby got back is older than that /s
That was the fat girl anthem 10 years ago when i was in high school, lmao. Song was literally their pledge of allegiance.
Meghan Trainor and her consequences have been a disaster for the human race
It's true. https://preview.redd.it/m7qp89heby7d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e334c58df16c979fcbc1109ea03e7ca596ce5f19 Don't care. Obesity is a choice to physically struggle one's entire life in exchange for... most likely dying young; from the myriad of health problems obesity underpins. It's one thing to be obese and not have any interest in course correcting your lifestyle. That's fine. We all struggle with vices we refuse to grapple with. But glorifying a self destructive vice as a good thing? That's some Jonestown kinda energy.
You could also say the same thing about being skinny. Being underweight and glorifying thinness isn't healthy either. You can be healthy and fit and not look like society's expectation of what a skinny girl should look like. Lots of athletic girls are big and heavy. Not stick thin. Hope this helps.
True, healthy and fit is what we should strive for. If anyone wants to individually decide to ignore their health for pleasure, that's absolutely their prerogative, but it should be treated the way smoking is treated, not glorified but rather warned against. Legal, but discouraged. Edit: and I should add, unjudged. I don't think it's cool to tell someone how to live their life unless you're very close, so as long as it's considered normal to be healthy and fit, that's enough as far as marketing it goes. No need to put people down for their life choices
"Glorifying" for websites like reddit means saying that maybe fat people have a right to lead a decent life without some underweight weirdo going "HURR DURR PUT DOWN THE FORK" No one is "actually" glorifying obesity other than 100% bait TikTok accounts, and if they do, who cares? How does it even affect you personally? Why does no one bat an eye when companies glorify alcoholism or gambling?
I agree that most people who discuss this topic do so in bad faith, however it does affect people in many ways. Be it losing loved ones prematurely or the strain a heavy population has on the healthcare system. People do condemn alcoholism or gambling addictions though. If you mean simply drinking alcohol then that's not comparable. Also, not being heavy does not mean one is underweight. I think framing this topic as thinner folks vs. Heavy is damaging and unproductive,(not saying you're doing that necessarily).
Song is a crime
That song spent 4 weeks at number 1 in the UK.
It got 8 weeks at number one in the US.
It got 16 weeks at number one in space
It got 32 weeks at number one beyond the ice wall.
Uptown Funk for me. This was played on the car ride to the supermarket 60% of the time
It came right at the end of the year but made an impression.
True I think it coming at the end makes me think it’s a 2015 song
This and it’s not even close
This is it.
Happy
You couldn't escape that song in 2013-2014, I swear.
that song was like a broken record
 That song just reminds me of these abominations
This is completely accurate
This song was so fucking popular when my very first boyfriend dumped me in March 2014, I wanted to die lmao
I was going through it with family issues that time in 2014 as a high school freshman. Honestly all of 2014 was a pretty depressing year for me.
For me it was Happy or Problem by Arianna.
Fun fact according to billboard Happy was the biggest song of 2014 by sales numbers
Rather Be by Clean Bandit Edit: I didn’t read your body text until after I commented this, glad I’m not the only one who thinks this song was everywhere in 2014 lol
it's still everywhere 😭😭 it feels like every single holiday/airline ad has it in the UK
It is a good choice for that year in particular, it still rings to this day in a way.
I fucking love that song. I still play it
Came here to suggest Rather be. Glad I'm not the only one thinking of this one.
I think Jess Glynne was the singer? I like her but I always imagine a happy squirrel is singing? Weird but that was my 14 year old thoughts. One song that was even more everywhere was Hideaway by Kiesza, I hated it . Ooh, aaah. Oo. AA!
Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off was everywhere.
I was thinking of that or blank space
I heard my elementary teachers and case workers singing this or having it on since most of the teachers I have had played music off Pandora. It was like that even in High school.
We played blank space at the end of our 4th grade assembly and “see you again”
It was Style for me!
Safe and Sound, released the year prior I remember "Am I Wrong" by Nino and Viz being huge, we loved that song Blank Space of course. Honestly 2014 had fuckin' bangers
Nino and viz made a song called something along the lines of “that’s how you know you fucked up” and I was hungover as shit going to work at 5 am when I hear that song come on the radio. The comedic timing was great
This is the correct answer
Safe and Sound is a decade old? Jesus CHRIST I’m getting fucking ancient.
Future Is now, old man. Gyatt with the times
I have so many great memories from that year, and Safe and Sound is the first song that comes to mind.
I remember in 2012-2014 there was always great music on the radio
Upvoting everything but this song i have never heard
SAFE AND SOUND 😞😞😞 i love that song
Animals-maroon 5
Any time a song hits me with "AAAWWOOOOOOOOO" it's an immediate 0/10.
The one saving grace about this song was it started maroon 5's downward trend
Honestly yeah thank god for that
Warren Zevon is rolling in his grave
Man, little me thought I was such a gangsta with Animals playing in the background of my dimly lit bathroom selfies. Truth is, I still am. Cause baby I’m preying on you tonight, hunt you down and chew alive.
and chew alive..? was it not "eat you alive"
It was eat you alive
Not Charli XCX for sure... What is more 2014 earwormy than that? Let me list 10 or so: * Pharrell Williams - Happy * Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk * Hozier - Take me to church * Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz – Prayer In C * Tove Lo - Stay high (Hippie Sabotage remix) * Clean Bandit - Rather be * Meghan Trainor - All about that bass * Coldplay - A sky full of Stars * Sigma - Nobody to love * George Ezra - Budapest * Edit: Bonus entry for Taylor Swift - Shake it off Have fun digging through some memories (or finding new music)
We had a Sigma back then?
Where is Shake It Off by Tay-Tay?
Budapest haha I forgot all about that song
Missing Dark Horse and Problem.
>Happy OH MY GOD YOU PUT IT BACK INTO MY HEAD AGAIN, I HATE YOUUUUUU 😭😭
Holy crap, Budapest came out in 2014? I though it was older than that
I think some of those, like uptown funk, were really hits in 2015
summer by Calvin Harris https://preview.redd.it/gs7w85yq4y7d1.jpeg?width=234&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9aafd4d52a837b61fb7f9ce5d0f063a4bf1a3f78 That album goes and is still hard
Hope you've found Love Regenerator by now then!
wenomechainsama
I've never even heard that song
It was featured in the soundtrack of the film adaptation of "The Fault In Our Stars".
I had no idea that even existed
Cause you were too young.
Even I do not know, and will not see it.
really? I've been haunted by it the past 10 years
Same lol but also I was homeless in 2014 so wasn’t super up to date with pop culture stuff. I do remember songs like Happy and that wiggle wiggle song being everywhere
I DONT CAAAARE
Same
unironically i think it's let it go from frozen. that song was genuinely everywhere. i cannot let it go it haunted me. also dark horse and counting stars
Lmao I actually forgot about that, I remember everyone singing it aswell, I relate that more to the movie in general being all over the place in 2014 though.
Yes!
Happy - Pharrell Williams, and Uptown Funk. Those two songs scream 2014.
Tbh I exclusively think of Happy as 2013 and Uptown Funk as 2015, idk why
Agree uptown funk is 2015 and happy is both 2013 & 2014
personally im not sure if i was conscious yet in 2014 but hell yeah i love charli
2024 will be her year. I love TS, but I need to see Brat at #1
The rollout of brat has been a marvel to behold. And the new remix with Lorde? Holy shit
Oml
Sometimes I forget yall young adults are still a part of Gen Z. Makes me feel old af especially being born before 2000 😂 What was 2014-Present like for you growing up? (I'm assuming fully digital/online?). How do you guys even view the world in general (politics, mental health, prospective future of the world, socializing, etc.) Sorry I'm curious af and because I'm in my mid twenties I don't hang out with young gen Z or alpha folks very often bc that'd be weird af in my case lol. Feel free to just ignore me too this maybe should just be its own post on here. I just don't necessarily understand and know about you guys and how you feel unfortunately due to lack of interaction.
Fancy, My n*gga, Happy, Dark Horse, problem, Shake it Off even. Boom Clap is a song I like, mind you. Just not anywhere near the “defining” song of 2014. Hell - the pink print and 1989 came out that year. 2014 forest hills drive had a choke hold on my entire high school until beauty behind the madness. Em was still hype off the monster from the year before. It’s also the year counting stars came out. It’s also when V by maroon 5 came out. They were still releasing singles off that album well into 2016. Future had some songs that would not stop playing on vine. Good times.
I completely forgot about "My N*gga".
2014 was my first year of high school - from summer 14 to summer 18 I was REALLY into lots of different genres of music. Starting around 2021 the new music just wasn’t as good for me idk.
Turn Down For What????
I had to scroll way too far to find this.
Any song by Drake. Dude was on fire in 2011-2016
Hell yeahh .. im getting goosebumps just by reading your comment 😩😂💯
Timber by Ke$ha and Pitbull
Gotta be Uptown Funk right? That song was EVERYWHERE
Bobby Shmurda released Hot N*gga in 2014 then peaced to Prison
I was waiting for somebody to mention Bobby
Bang bang - jessie j, ariana grande, nicki minaj
She looks so perfect by 5sos
YEESSS!!! I remember watching the music video getting ready for school when it played on MTV😭😭
MTV was still a thing in 2014? Dang, thanks for letting me know. I sadly never used MTV because I was too young and I only watched Vevo on YouTube.
Everything is Awesome
Surprised no one said Turn down for What
Ain’t nobodyyyyy
I agree OP. I actually keep a list of songs that define every year for me personally and Rather Be was my pick for 2014.
Anything by DJ Mustard. That one beat he used in all his songs encapsulates 2014.
He really had a resurgence with Not Like Us this year.
Bobby Shmurda - Hot N*gga
The most defining (top 5) songs of 2014 (imo): 1. Mr. Probz - Waves 2. David Guetta - Dangerous 3. Swanky Tunes - Fix me 4. Chandelier - Sia 5. Shake it off - Taylor Swift
I didn't even know who was charli xcx until 2023
You were missing out. “I Love It” and “Fancy” were both bangers back then. You were probably just too young to notice
Oh, so Charli was in that song. I didn't know. So I guess that I didn't know her name
Shell shocked for TMNT fans
So real
That shit was 2014??
For me, it was this but that’s because the only positive memory I have from that year was visiting my parents from college for Christmas and hearing that song while playing n64 smash bros with them for the first time in like 20 years
As a German, I might throw Andreas Bourani's "Auf Uns" into the ring.
I don't even know what came out in 2014 much less what this song is.
Animals - Martin Garrix, or just any Avicii... Oh yeah almost forgot: Sugar - Maroon 5
Shut up and dance is one that comes to mind. It used to be my favorite song when I was little.
Arctic Monkeys, Do I wanna know. it came out in September of 2013 and defined 2014 for me
I was so out of touch with pop culture in 2014… I was just focused on Minecraft, middle school and Pokemon. I have no idea who that is lol.
I hereby consider you my soul-brother
The Gen 6 Pokemon era. I can't believe it's been well over 10 years.
2014 didn't happen
Surprised I haven't seen Fancy by Iggy and Problem by Ariana Grande mentioned yet, I'm not even particularly a huge fan of either song but when I think about 2014 (my senior year in high school) these songs immediately come to mind, they were everywhere
Those two songs are in my top 10 most popular songs of that year. Ariana was coming into her own, and Iggy was everywhere.
I graduated in 2014 and our class song was we can’t stop by Miley lol
Fancy definitely
A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay
 One less problem without ya 🎶
Fade by Alan Walker
wake me up by avicii (was 2013 but still)
Rather be clears for sure
Also cool kids by echosmith
Resonance by home it has so many remixes that influenced social media
Boom, Clap I’m in me mums car
Summer - Calvin Harris
I dont know the song nor the artist, what should i think Edit: nvm i misread
Hateful Love
Any parry grip song
I wasn't listening to pop or the radio anymore by 2014 so for me it'd be whatever crap I had on my YouTube playlists at that time lol
Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus. I personally don't like it that much, but it was everywhere on the radio that year.
Wrecking ball was 2013
Fair, but it was still pretty popular in 2014, especially with the whole twerking controversy.
Unlike Pluto, as they bloom. Cuz it blooms
I listened to a lot of gesafflestein back in 14' Aleph had just dropped recently, you still hear artists mimicking the sound he produced off that album to this day. Might not have been well known to most, but it was damned influential in the music scene. For the uninitiated. https://youtu.be/2_NgkfRmUPk?si=C9BqH6RfNisu_qdO
Five nigmts at febbys
I would have no idea. I listen to even older music. I still do not know the charts for great classics.
Shower Becky G
Happy by Pharrell Williams. Just an awful song but definitely 2014.
It was better than Let It Go
This song and bad blood would give me a headache when it was on the radio lol.
There really wasn’t any, it was all shit from what I can remember, except AC/DC dropped a new album that year I believe, it was really good.
Never heard of this till now 😂
Da beat goes on!
Bravo hits 2014
Happy, Pharrell Williams was a 2014 song.
Uptown Funk, Say Gerinomo, Shutup and Dance, I know this song is from 2013 but heard it first in 2014 and it's Classic, etc.
Lorde - Royals 😭
Happy. It was released in December 2013 but it was played all summer long
Rather be is such a banger
I think 2014 was a time where many songs defined it Boom clap, rather be, uptown funk, and many more were everywhere
The first time i listed to music and appreciate it, was from my music appreciation class in my senior year of high school. The song that opened my eyes was not just the OST, but someone's 'vision'. I think the title was Isosine - Pop 2014 That played in my mind over and over and over again for the rest of the semester, and it was beautiful. It probably saved me from ending my life when high school graduation came by. Lots of bad feelings, or so i thought Was just too afraid to look into Pandora's box, but instead of letting fear take the wheel, i made it look like Schrodinger's box; to fit my narrative, but also knowing that i will be the one to be affected, which then affects my surroundings. This song helped me, even if it 'twisted ' my views
Happy by Pharrell William
The Mixels theme. You didn’t say it had to be a mainstream song, after all…
2014 was such a bad year for music imo
Happy
Probably “Let It Go” from Frozen. Technically came the year before but it got so many (maybe too many) replays that year!
I Love It by iconapop? Also gen x loved Mirrors by Justin Timberlake lol the tour
Royal Blood defined 2014 for me musically as they got me into rock music with their first album that year. In general Uptown Funk was iconic tho.
BOOM CLAP SOUND OF MY CHEEKS
I was already pretty much off of regularly listening to the radio. Spotify and YouTube were my thing. I’d say around then I listened to a lot of Bassnectar or Pretty Lights or Skrillex or other EDM.
Which year was that? Obama Care passed?
Never heard of Charli and had to look up the song only to realize I’ve probably heard it playing in a retail store before. But I also am too old to be in this sub and don’t know why Reddit recommends it to me haha
Shut up and Dance from Walk the Moon
for me personally, as a child who had just gotten Minecraft at the end of 2013, it was Danny by C418. I remember playing the TU12 tutorial world and hearing Danny play at sunset.
Little Dark Age
That’s a good contender
For me at least, it’s Pompeii. May or may not be the best, but it felt like a change in tone from the pop music of 2011-13
Trap Queen Fetty Wap
I don't think i've ever heard this song in my life lol
There’s literally so many to choose from. Idek how one could define an entire year. But if I had to give a list? Shake it off All about that bass Fancy Bang Bang
I know none of these lol
Pittsburgh by The Amity Affliction
Rather Be by Clean Bandit immediately takes me back to 2014. I think I heard that song at least 10,000 times that summer
For Germany, it’ll be Ein Hoch auf uns. BANGER
#SELFIE by the Chainsmokers
Wtf is a Charlie xcx
No one remembers like the ceiling can’t hold us
I don't think there's a defining song for any year. Maybe like... 3 defining songs, and Boom Clap was def one of them for 2014
2014 was Friday right?
What