35 Iconic Songs From Your Childhood That You Probably Forgot About Until Now

🎵 "WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?!" 🎵

1. "Do It Like That" — Ricki-Lee

EMI

Nostalgic memory: Frothing over the City Beach-esque fits that Ricki-Lee and co were sporting and immediately asking mum if you could get a new suit for your friend's pool party.

2. "Coming Home" — Diddy feat. Skylar Grey

Bad Boy / Interscope Records

Nostalgic memory: Feeling emotional and teary-eyed when you sung the chorus, even though you had no reason to be.

3. "Brother" — Matt Corby

Triple J / Via youtube.com

Nostalgic memory: Falling in love with Matt Corby all over again, as he shed his Australian Idol image (and that very '00s hairstyle). 

4. "Acapella" — Karmin

Epic Records

Nostalgic memory: Not listening to this song for ages, but immediately recognising it and knowing all the lyrics as soon as you hear it anywhere.

5. "Mistake" — Stephanie McIntosh

Universal Music

Nostalgic memory: Screaming the lyrics into a hairbrush while your mum yelled at you to turn the music down.

6. "Another Man" — Itch feat. Megan Joy

Red Bull Records

Nostalgic memory: Hearing this play in Coles and Shazaming it to find out the name of the song.

7. "Bom Bom" — Sam And The Womp

Stiff Records

Nostalgic memory: Not having any idea about what the song is about or even what the lyrics are (besides the "BOM BOM BOM" part), but singing along anyway.

8. "Champagne Showers" — LMFAO feat. Natalia Kills

Interscope Records

Nostalgic memory: Having the entire crowd absolutely GO OFF to this whenever it was played at a school formal or at the club.

9. "Billionaire" — Travis McCoy feat. Bruno Mars

Fueled By Ramen / Atlantic Records

Nostalgic memory: Buying the latest So Fresh CD at Sanity, so you could listen to this song on repeat.

10. "Troublemaker" — Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida

Epic Records

Nostalgic memory: Being obsessed with Olly Murs and all of his music — including this song and "Dear Darlin'". 

11. "Black Box" — Stan Walker

Sony Music

Nostalgic memory: Being a huge Stan Walker fan and texting in to make sure he wasn't eliminated during his Australian Idol days.

12. "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)" — Ylvis

Parlophone / EMI Norway

Nostalgic memory: Requesting this to be played at the school discos become it was THE song that everyone was listening to. 

13. "You" — Nathanial

DNA Songs / Sony Music

Nostalgic memory: Hearing everyone call Nathanial the Australian John Legend.

14. "Jubel" — Klingande

Antipodes Music

Nostalgic memory: Hearing this all day, every day because you worked in retail (most likely Cotton On) — but not minding, because this song was a banger.

15. "Prayer in C" — Lilly Wood & The Prick & Robin Schultz

Warner Music

Nostalgic memory: Listening to this song during summer on your iPod — life was good, you were on school holidays and you already had plans with your mates to see the latest Hunger Games movie.

16. "Dynamite" — Taio Cruz

Universal-Island Records

Nostalgic memory: Grooving to this with everyone at their sweet 16 birthday party.

17. "Tightrope" — Illy

Warner Music

Nostalgic memory: Recording this song when it came on the radio so it could be the ringtone for your flip phone.

18. "How We Do" — Rita Ora

Roc Nation / Columbia Records

Nostalgic memory: Discovering who Rita Ora was through this song and thinking that her music was ~catchy~. 

19. "We Run The Night" — Havana Brown feat. Pitbull

Universal Music

Nostalgic memory: Going to Marquee at The Star to purchase overpriced vodka lemonades and dance to songs like this once you were old enough.

20. "Cooler Than Me" — Mike Posner

J Records / RCA

Nostalgic memory: Buying coloured skinny jeans from Jay Jays and a top from Supré and thinking that you were, indeed, cooler than everyone else.

21. "#SELFIE" — The Chainsmokers

Dim Mak / Republic Records

Nostalgic memory: Not being able to escape this song because it was literally being played EVERYWHERE. 

22. "Replay" — Zendaya

Hollywood Records

Nostalgic memory: Absolutely vibing to this song and trying to learn all of Zendaya's moves.

23. "Jar Of Hearts" — Christina Perri

Atlantic Records

Nostalgic memory: Becoming unnecessarily emotional while singing this song (probably to some karaoke version you looked up on YouTube), even though you had never been in a relationship before.

24. "Boys Like You" — 360 feat. Gossling

Soulmate Records

Nostalgic memory: Getting super hyped when the music video dropped because Ruby Rose was in it.

25. "Domino" — Jessie J

Lava Music / Republic Records

Nostalgic memory: Singing "I'm feeling sexy and free" loudly and not having your parents bat an eye.

26. "Ex's And Oh's" — Elle King

Sony Music

Nostalgic memory: Hearing this song come on the radio while you're in the car with your parents and immediately imagining what it would be like to leave a boyfriend (because you had never had one yet). 

27. "I'm Ready" — AJR

Warner Music

Nostalgic memory: Hearing this played during Packed To The Rafters promo before new episodes aired.

28. "I'm An Albatraoz" — AronChupa

Aron Ekberg / Sony

Nostalgic memory: None, because this is still being played at parties across Australia (minus those COVID-19 years, of course). 

29. "Que Sera" — Justice Crew

Sony Music

Nostalgic memory: Having this played at your Year Six graduation assembly.

30. "Glad You Came" — The Wanted

Universal-Island Records

Nostalgic memory: Desperately wanting a British boyfriend and for it to be one of the boys from The Wanted.

31. "Earthquake" — Labrinth feat. Tinie Tempeh

Syco Music

Nostalgic memory: Having the primary school disco go fucking wild when this banger came on.

32. "What You've Done To Me" — Samantha Jade

Sony Music

Nostalgic memory: Being the BIGGEST Samantha Jade stan and thinking that she was criminally underrated.

33. "Classic" — MKTO

Columbia Records

Nostalgic memory: Immediately feeling happy whenever you heard this song because it was — and still is — such a bop.

34. "Happiness" — Alexis Jordan

Roc Nation / Columbia Records

Nostalgic memory: Getting this song stuck in your head, especially the "I gotta hurry, hurry, hurry, now, quick, quick, quick" part.

35. "I Like It" — Enrique Iglesias

Republic Records

Nostalgic memory: Thinking you were the hottest thing ever when you ~sassily~ danced to this song.

Shoutout to @_childhoodmems_ for inspiring this nostalgic list of bangers! Go give them a follow.