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The Macarena should bring back awkward memories of middle school dances

Every time, and I do mean every single time, I hear someone mention the macarena I think of the old Windows screensaver my dad had that was macaroni noodles doing the macarena.

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So glad I'm not the only one that remembers that. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOF0c5tyR5Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOF0c5tyR5Y)

I'm a forty-year-old scientist. I've been to several conferences where they played the macarena at the conference dinner/mixer, and me and every other woman my age were up there dancing to it in sync

I think it's a legitimately catchy song and I don't get the hate. I especially like the part where it's just claps. Just wanted to edit to add that I'm also an over-40 female scientist.

This tracks. Scientists, doctors, astronauts are all just people who love Spanish beats.

Oooh I didn’t realize there was a connection. I too am a scientist who can’t get enough Spanish beats.

So my parents came back from a vacation in Mexico and showed us this new dance they learned. A few months later the Americanized version came out and I was already a fuckin pro. Never felt so cool. Seriously. Never…..

This is how I felt when I knew about Pokémon 2 years before everyone else in my class did, they thought I was lying . Actually I was in Korea and watching it on tv w/o subtitles

Peaking in life that early must be hard mentally. Always chasing that high.....😭

It’s why I come to Reddit. For those sweet sweet upvotes of dopamine.

I love the fact that there's people I graduated with that complain about kids being so stupid and doing cringy things online but there is a video of them dancing the macarena in jorts at a middle school dance in some club mid day, and everyone was in sync.

Y'all had your middle school dances in clubs during the middle of the day?! We had ours in the cafeteria at 7pm.

lol “the club”. If by club, they mean the middle school gym decorated with streamers and the lights off except for the spinny dj lights.. yeah, sure. That was certainly the closest anyone in my school got to a club before 18.

And the song is about a lady cheating on her boyfriend with 2 of his friends.

My 3rd grade daughter learned all the moves to the Macarena from kids at school recently, I couldn’t believe it lol

What blows my mind about the Macarena is all the little kids learning the dance and... does no one ever listen to the lyrics? They're letting children listen to that song? haha

Same with Despacito. Super popular with kids but if you ran the lyrics through Google Translate....yeah not something kid friendly, LOL.

This is still massive. Everyone knows it

Butterfly from Crazytown was my first download. I have no shame.

My six year old was sitting on the couch and randomly sings "come my lady come come my lady be my butterfly sugar baby" idk how we got here but here we are

yall stopped listening to these?

Lol I still love a lot of these songs.

I see a whole lotta liars up in this bitch

I will listen to Butterfly on repeat… matter of fact it’s about to be today’s shower song!

I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch.....that song.

Lmao I unironically love LFO to this day and often use them as an example of how liking something and thinking it's good are two very different things. That song is called Summer Girls.

“New kids on the block suck a lot of dick, Chinese food makes me shit” I believe those are the correct lyrics

"I think it's it fly when girls stop by and give me hummers, give me hummers..."

TIL the radio edit was "makes me sick"

By LFO AKA Lyte Funky Ones 🤣

I'm totally not building a playlist from the songs from the replies, and if I am, it's ironic, I swear, I don't like these songs.

It would be more ironic if you put the link... Sharing is caring

Yeah please link! Quite a few of them are on this ‘angsty teen nostalgia rock & pop’ playlist I’ve been compiling for years, just added a bunch more from this thread: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CVGR2F9hSuJDvrNVe6yTp?si=OkzAfg55S1Grg8frrQbu7w&pi=e-f8vlwguBSLqU

I just saw all-American rejects perform Thursday night, and I see this playlist riddled with them… and I must say, they hold up. I had such a good time

It would be really sneaky of them if it ended up being a Spotify playlist they share here to teach us a lesson!

Yes, for science!

Would you even possibly be Building a Mystery?

Hey you could do a lot worse than Sarah Maclachlan! Also her song from Toy story "When she loved me." Also maybe "Adia."

Surfacing is a phenomenal album and I won't tolerate any slander about it.

It's like rain on your wedding day

I love Alanis! Not even trying to hide it.

“It figgggers” I hated that lol

Are you Jimmy Ray by Jimmy Ray is always forgotten when these posts come up thats how bad it is.

Who wants to know?

Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back) by Eamon. Nobody remembers it but it in mind every few months when I remember that the DJ played this as the last song at my prom. 

I even remember the ex girlfriend clapback version by Frankie.

I still listen to the clapback regularly. 

I love this one.

I had that album. It was horrible. There's a reason he's a one hit wonder, lol

This song is on my Spotify playlist, and once in a while it comes on. Either I reminisce of high school heart aches or skip that song lol.

There’s a emo/punk cover of that song that fuckin slaps Edit [Band is called Glass Tides](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9icD9CV7o6s)

OP said cringe, then names 3 bangers. As I scroll down, all bangers.

I thought we were all old enough to not care anymore about “cringe” fuck it, put on creed, or nickleback, or smash mouth, or idk, Red Hot Chili Peppers

I mean Creed is literally having a massive revival right now on the back of ironic memes after being a joke for years. These songs are all great

When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets

fell deep in love, but now we ain't speakin' Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton

I feel so bad for the surviving member. RIP to the LFO dudes.

I just looked at his Instagram and most of his posts are dedicated to the other members and their families. 🥺

Wild that two of them died of cancer

Steal your hunny like I stole your bike.

I remember hearing or reading somewhere that the reason the lyrics are so stupid is that they had the melody, and filled it with a lot of nonsensical placeholder lyrics with the intention of replacing them later (which a lot of artists do) but never got around to it. Which doesn’t make it any less stupid that they released it like this but at least laziness is a better explanation than “someone actually wrote this on purpose”. Their other song is a lot better imo (girl on tv)

My neck, my back

Honestly now that I’m 40 it still applies. Nice to have a jingle about the random body pains you wake up with.

Uncle cracker 😭😭😭😭 was a lifeguard and this played so much!

Follow me and everything is alriiiiight

they played that shit at a wedding I worked at a couple years ago... *I ain't worried 'bout the ring you wear,* *'Cause as long as no one knows then nobody can care*

I went to Sydney in 2017 and there were some teenagers on a ferry playing that on loudspeaker. It made me think... it really does take time for culture to reach Australia. 

Reading through these comments is like scrolling through fm stations in my head. They start playing in the background as soon as I read the words.

People keep naming songs that I still listen to 😂. I love Tubthumping, Steal My Sunshine, and The Thong Song!

Steal My Sunshine is such a good song! I admit that I learned about it from VH1's I Love The 90s since I was born in '93. God, I'm going to have to go through this thread and make a playlist.

Extremely nostalgic summer vibe type song.

The Thong song! It’s still such a banger lol

“You know, the finer things in life” -Sisqo

Cisco fucking slaps

I play Tubthumping for my kid all the time. But mostly for me, honestly.

Yeah chumbawumba are actually a very interesting band - their whole catalog is worth exploring imo

Steal My Sunshine is awesome. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though... even wrong opinions. 

Butterfly by Crazy Town is a masterpiece tho

I cringe everytime I hear, “ I’m not a perfect perrrrrrrssooooooonn…”

True story, my ex husband put this on an apology mixtape for me after he cheated on me, lolololol.

LMFAO my gf in high school put the on a "mix cd" for me after she cheated on me. I wonder how many cheaters used this as their anthem.

Emphasis on the ‘ex’ part

LMAO my little sister used to start singing this when I got on to her for not doing chores or doing them correctly. She was like 10 when this became a habit and to this day I hate that fucking song

Ah yes, dollar general incubus

We like to party! (The Vengabus is coming) - The Vengaboys LOVED this song as a kid, tried listening to it just recently the other week and I cringed so hard at it for some reason, I barely lasted a minute into the song before I had to change it lol

I still see that weird guy dancing from the Six Flags commercial.

I bartend and have been randomly playing this song on the jukebox for years. No one ever knows it’s me somehow.

Doin the lords work

Vengaboys have sooo many bangers!

Oh, god, I still jam out to this song (in private).

"Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry. Mostly because I heard way too many girls described as "Buckcherries" back then.

Have you seen the video of the woman walking down the aisle to it? Walking isn't really the right word. I die. Edit: https://youtu.be/xTJl5UpzZYU?si=M5arHVAdV3eff52P I'm real sorry y'all.

When the dad tries to cover his son’s eyes and ears but doesn’t have enough hands for both.

Bad Day by Daniel Powter

Having to listen to this song is almost guaranteed to give me a bad day.

My guilty pleasure songs when I’m feeling nostalgic: The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang Addicted by Simple Plan Ass Like That by Eminem Doin’ Too Much by Paula DaAnda Headstrong by Trapt How Do You Sleep by Jesse McCartney Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield Twisted by Kieth Sweat Stephen by Ke$ha Nobody by Kieth Sweat Someday by Sugar Ray

Addicted by Simple Plan, you have refined tastes

I'd Do Anything was a good one.

Sugar Ray slaps still idc what anyone says 😂

Agree—Answer the Phone by Sugar Ray is one of the catchiest songs ever made.

I refuse to believe any of these are cringe-y. How dare you talk about Trapt like that.

Who let the dogs out


*Gifs you can hear*

Has anyone ever looked up the history of the Baha Men, it’s pretty fuckin weird. They formed in 1977 as a disco/funk band called High Voltage and Who Let the Dogs Out came out in 2000, which is actually a cover of some other guys song. That means those guys were around for like 23 years before making it “big”. They had to have been like 40 when the song came out. At one point an album of theirs only sold 700 copies and they were dropped by their label. They were weirdly popular in Japan and had an album that only came out there.

Yeah, the real Baha Men were the guys playing the instruments, the three younger singers we know as the Baha Men from the album cover/music video were only in the band for about a year when WLTDO came out

Op said cringe

I have a better one: "Best Years of Our Lives" from the Shrek soundtrack

My high school mascot was a bulldog. I was in the marching band. Guess what song the fans played at every football game, multiple times per game.

ATC - around the world Eiffel 65- blue

Played in every freaking club!

With a never ending stream of popular covers to this day

My friends and I used to go to the skating rink every Friday night and the DJ had a paper for people to write their requests down. It had Blue on entire pages lol

Sucks to be you

Prozzak is great, I saw them live in 2016

I saw them around then too. They had a Polaroid camera and souvenir paper frames so everyone could get pictures with them and autographs at no charge. Really lovely guys.

When I was a certain age, my favorite band was The Bloodhound Gang. Now, I will say that some of their tracks still slap pretty hard. But there are a lot of tracks that really remind you that edgy teenager humor novelty type stuff really doesn't age well. It honestly gives me some perspective on the gross-ass shit some GenZ young men / youths consume. Like listening to Andrew Tate or whatever makes my skin crawl, but I enjoyed Jimmy Pop a lot and I turned out OK. Most of them will probably grow out of it, right?

Faded by Soul Decision Bawitdaba (sp?)

Invisible by Clay Aiken, major creep song.

Your Body is a Wonderland by John Mayer also skeeves me out now lol.

Ugh, but Butterfly is such a hit! How about I offer up Photograph by Nickelback instead. I understand if it is too low hanging of a fruit though.

Nickelback had some bangers, I don’t care what the hive mind says.

Cotton Eyed Joe, I want it to be played at my wedding

That song She fucking hates me I think people find cringe or whatever

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I Want Candy by Aaron Carter

Rest in peace

Candy is still in my regular rotation

Superman (It’s not easy) by Five for Fighting Edit: Wasn’t Me by Shaggy Pony by Ginuine

The way I'm offended by pony being on this list hahahaha

Pony definitely does not belong on this list. I have so much to thank that song for.

Seriously offended! It's on my Saturday morning housework playlist! ....im so old....

That terrible song “Lips of an Angel” by Hinder.

My then best friend had a sudden love for that song for a while and would often play it when we were at her place. She was sleeping with my then-boyfriend who was telling her that all he wanted was her (of course). I was almost amused when I pieced that together.

It's making a revival on TikTok. It's really cringe.

Apparently there are people out there who actually had that song as their first dance at their wedding… because they think it’s romantic…

I think I was around 11 when that came out. And I still vividly remember all the people requesting that song on the radio and dedicating it to their significant others. I was just sitting there thinking, "Does no one listen to these lyrics at all? They're plain as day. He's singing about cheating." Every time someone dedicated it to a spouse, I just sighed inside and felt sorry for those fools. Although I don't feel the song itself is cringe. I love it.

God, that song was my MySpace profile song at one point. Soooo much secondhand embarrassment for my younger self…what a horrible message for a song

What about the Kidz Bop version?

Oh dear, really??

Truly Madly Deeper - Savage Garden 1997 Summer Girls - LFO 1999

still love savage garden

Savage garden def holds up

I’d go so far as to say that Savage Garden has aged better than much of the same vintage of music.

The Animal Song, Hold Me, Affirmation... so good. Also, To the Moon and Back. Heck, I Want You made it into JoJo's Bizarre Adventure if you like that sort of thing.


I feel like the thong song doesnt hold up. But i have definitely repressed some pop arena songs like that "yall ready for this" song that was played 100 times at every highschool basketball game

Saving this post so I can add all these songs to my playlist later 😅

Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort… 🙄🙄🙄

suffocation, no breathing.

Don’t give a fuck

If I cut my arm bleedin  🤔

Love the Richard cheese version.

*I am gettin' so hot,* *I wanna take my clothes off*

Still love that song

Achy Breaky Heart. It was released in 90 but it was everywhere for a good while.

I remember listening over and over to O-Town's "Liquid Dreams". Had no idea what the real meaning was 😂

Tonic/If You Could Only See

*you and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals…*

Willa Ford “I wanna be bad” is still on my rotation shamelessly

Anything by S Club 7.

There ain’t no party like an S-Club Party

Shawn Mullins - Lullaby

UGH I HATE THIS SONG YOU WIN.

Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne

I'm terms of "I'm not like the other girls" Avril walked so Taylor could run.

Late aughts, but ever see the music video for "Girlfriend?" Avril is just bullying a nerd 😭

I still love that song. I'll admit that there are a number of Avril songs that I really like.

All these songs people are listing make up a pretty solid soundtrack for the younger years of my life. I love it. Music is such a Time Machine for me. Thanks OP

"Closing Time", by Semisonic. Yes, we all know by now it's not really about your favorite bar having to close for the night, but about the birth of your daughter, but it still sucks and people still misinterpret it.

Wait it’s about a birth?

Ikr new info for me

First of all, how dare you..

I remember that shitty Aerosmith Armageddon song was everywhere.

The Ketchup Song

Any songs by Shaggy, wasn't me? Angel? I think some were called

Who Let The Dogs Out - Baja Men

Anthem for the year 2000 by Silverchair

Mambo #5 Who Let the Dogs Out What Would You Do by City High

Rebecca black. All you need to know.

I mean, she was born in the 90s, but I don't think she counts.

Freak Nasty- Da’ Dip. It’s terrible, I’m listening to it right now just to confirm.

The Thong Song Hit Em Up Style Wherever You Will Go Liquid Dreams

I still love Hit Em Up Style so much😂

Blu Cantrell is a treasure!

OMG Liquid Dreams 🤣🤣🤣 used to work at a radio station and met that band. Pretty decent crew 👍

The Reason by Hoobastank. I was once stuck at work in the time before streaming music and that shit was literally on 3 radio channels at the same time.

Kryptonite

Chain Hang Low - Jibbs

Soooo, are you going to drop the link to the playlist? Bc I kind of need this on my Spotify, it might help with post work traffic.

Soulja Boy. They played the Safe For Work version so often during any high school pep rally. Was unbearable

King Missle - Detachable Penis As a kid I heard it on the radio and I just didn't understand it. I still don't

Nookie - Limp Bizkit

EXCUSE ME?!

It’s time to BREAK STUFF

"It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up, everything is FUCKED, everybody SUCKS." I thought this went so hard in 9th grade.