My Teen Years Special Edition: What were you listening to when you were a teenager? We all come from different decades, with different tunes. For this month, please pick some of your favorite songs that bring you back to those glorious teenage years!
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9th grade. 1997-1998. For my friends and me, it was the last year before boys and drama started taking over our lives. And we spent most of it listening to boybands. I looked like this:
(This was – clearly – the year when my hair really started to get out of control. It wasn’t until mid-way through my senior year that I discovered the miracle that is the flatiron. I promise, I don’t leave the house like this anymore.).
NSYNC was the favorite of the year:
NSYNC – I Want You Back
But I also listened to a few other things. Like:
Usher – You Make Me Wanna
Tonic – If You Could Only See
What were you listening to in 9th grade?
Hahaha my hair was out of control, too. I would let it AIR DRY. Oh the horror. NSync was definitely on heavy rotation in my teen years. I loved boy bands, but I was a bit past the “teen” years when they really became big. I remember going to see BSB when I was 18 with my older sisters! haha Oh goodness we looked out of place.
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Michelle Reply:
July 11th, 2012 at 9:52 am
The sad thing is that I probably did blow dry my hair there. And it still looked that awful. I thought a round brush was all I needed.
I think that two years between us probably made a huge difference back then. But now we both have excellent taste in music so it all worked out.
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I wasn’t in my teens when boybands like NSync and BSB were big, but I loved them all the same! I was never really that big an Usher fan though, not until he released his Confessions album.
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I was little when I started listening to NSync but I was obsessed. Same with Usher. I don’t know the first time I heard If You Could Only See but love that song.
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Twitter: DebbieRodgers
9th grade: 1967-1968 The US was embroiled in the VietNam war and all of the anti-war protests. Rock music reflected that – the protests, that is.
from Something’s Happening Here – Buffalo Springfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs
to All You Need is Love – The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN9R8XhxgZU
Also, I grew up in southwestern Ontario and our music was greatly influenced by Motown.
I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI_0tQdEA5k
Lots more, but I think I’m probably in an era most of you aren’t too interested in
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Michelle Reply:
July 11th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Different generations but similar geography. I grew up in Southeastern Michigan. And I love all of those songs.
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Twitter: thatsostelle
Ah! Good ones. Tonic! That was a great song. And NSYNC all the way. I really liked them a lot and saw them in concert once. (Jordan Knight opened for them ha!)
Love that you included a picture too!
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Michelle Reply:
July 11th, 2012 at 9:51 am
I saw NSYNC on that tour. And possibly a few other – cough 4 cough – times.
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Usher! How funny you should add this song as I just posted on another blog about love triangles.
How fitting!
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I loved N’Sync and Usher. To this day, anytime someone says “it’s 7 o’clock” (which seems to happen sort of often, I pretty much instinctively start singing “on the dot, I’m in my drop top cruising the streets…” on and on until I’ve sung the whole song, LOL!
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