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| Five songs that have not aged well | Five songs that have not aged well |
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| Have you heard the recent hit single #SELFIE by The Chainsmokers? It is, it's safe to say, one of the worst things we've come across this year – but it comes with a built-in expiry date, ensuring that it's going to sound extremely dated in the very near future. | Have you heard the recent hit single #SELFIE by The Chainsmokers? It is, it's safe to say, one of the worst things we've come across this year – but it comes with a built-in expiry date, ensuring that it's going to sound extremely dated in the very near future. |
| Why dated? Well, selfies themselves are most likely just another flash | Why dated? Well, selfies themselves are most likely just another flash |
| in the internet pan. Give it another five years and we’ll all be laughing at how selfies | in the internet pan. Give it another five years and we’ll all be laughing at how selfies |
| were ever a thing, and all memory of this affiliated club | were ever a thing, and all memory of this affiliated club |
| banger will have died. | banger will have died. |
| Here are a few other songs featuring lyrics that | |
| the years haven't treated kindly – can you think of any other examples? | |
| Let us know in the thread below. | |
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| Pulp - Disco 2000 | Pulp - Disco 2000 |
| Pulp’s 1995 | Pulp’s 1995 |
| ode to oncoming adulthood proposes a friendship group’s reunion at the | ode to oncoming adulthood proposes a friendship group’s reunion at the |
| start of the millenium, five years away at the time. “Won’t it be | start of the millenium, five years away at the time. “Won’t it be |
| strange when we’re all fully grown?” sings Jarvis. At the time of writing that meet-up would have happened 14 years ago. | strange when we’re all fully grown?” sings Jarvis. At the time of writing that meet-up would have happened 14 years ago. |
| Beyonce - Crazy In Love | Beyonce - Crazy In Love |
| Crazy In Love still sounds | Crazy In Love still sounds |
| like it’s from the future, apart from one clanging line in the chorus: | like it’s from the future, apart from one clanging line in the chorus: |
| “Got me hopin’ you page me right now.” Pagers, Beyonce? You want Jay to | “Got me hopin’ you page me right now.” Pagers, Beyonce? You want Jay to |
| page you his number so you can go to a phone and call him up? Good luck finding a pager and an easily accessible land line in this day and | page you his number so you can go to a phone and call him up? Good luck finding a pager and an easily accessible land line in this day and |
| age. | age. |
| Ed Sheeran - Wake Me Up | Ed Sheeran - Wake Me Up |
| The scruffy singer-songwriter sure knows how to woo a lady with smooth | The scruffy singer-songwriter sure knows how to woo a lady with smooth |
| lines like “if your DVD breaks today / you should have got a VCR, 'cause | lines like “if your DVD breaks today / you should have got a VCR, 'cause |
| I never owned a Blu-ray, true say.” Not only does that line make less | I never owned a Blu-ray, true say.” Not only does that line make less |
| sense the more you read it, but give it 10 years and we’ll all be | sense the more you read it, but give it 10 years and we’ll all be |
| streaming Netflix directly into our brains, and nobody will remember what a | streaming Netflix directly into our brains, and nobody will remember what a |
| VCR is. | VCR is. |
| Pitbull - Go Girl | Pitbull - Go Girl |
| A tip to all musicians: refrain from mentioning social networks in your | A tip to all musicians: refrain from mentioning social networks in your |
| songs. As soon as you do, the internet will evolve a new number one | songs. As soon as you do, the internet will evolve a new number one |
| website purely to make your cheap club tune date as quickly as possible. | website purely to make your cheap club tune date as quickly as possible. |
| “She’s on my top eight / Bagged her off of MySpace” boasts Pitbull in slightly creepy fashion. | “She’s on my top eight / Bagged her off of MySpace” boasts Pitbull in slightly creepy fashion. |
| Will Smith - Will2K (Willennium) | Will Smith - Will2K (Willennium) |
| Will Smith once made the brilliant decision to create a song that would | Will Smith once made the brilliant decision to create a song that would |
| only ever be properly relevant for one night in history. Will2K’s | only ever be properly relevant for one night in history. Will2K’s |
| pre-2000 optimism feels more quaint every year: "What’s gonna happen, | pre-2000 optimism feels more quaint every year: "What’s gonna happen, |
| don’t nobody know / We’ll see when the clock hits the 12-0-0.” Well, we | don’t nobody know / We’ll see when the clock hits the 12-0-0.” Well, we |
| do know now, and the answer was, er, nothing much. | do know now, and the answer was, er, nothing much. |