I was in the car with my mom and younger brother, and we were listening to the radio. The song Pillow Talk came on and my 11 year old brother was singing along to it perfectly. He doesn’t know what he is singing about but he loves any Top 40 music. Then I started thinking ‘did I innocently sing along to bad songs on the radio too?’
Turns out, we totally did.
Milkshake – Kelis
Notable Lyric: “You want me to teach thee/ Techniques that freaks these boys/ It can’t be bought”
Lady Marmalade – Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, Pink
Notable Lyric: “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi”
I guess our French classes weren’t all that useful.
Candy Shop – 50 Cent ft. Olivia
Notable Lyric: “I’m seasoned vet when it come to this shit
After you work up a sweat you can play with this stick”
That would be my pickup line.
Bed Rock – Young Money
Notable Lyric: “My room is the G spot/ Call Me Mr.Flinstone/ I Can Make Your Bed Rock”
3 – Britney Spears
Notable Lyric: “one, two, three…/Peter, Paul and Mary/Getting down with 3P… everybody loves Unh”
SexyBack – Justin Timberlake
Notable Lyric: “I’m your slave/ I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave”
U + Ur Hand – Pink
Notable Lyric: “It’s just you and your hand tonight”
I first heard this song from my friends’ mom who played this in her mini van. Oops.
Lollipop – Lil Wayne ft. Static
Notable Lyric: “Shawty wanna’ hump, you know I’d like to touch ya lovely lady lumps”
First of all don’t call me Shawty and I prefer to call them lady curves, not lumps. Kk thanks.
Why do all songs gotta have some sexual undertone to them?!
♫I could teach you but I have to charge♫
– Jordan
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ere supposed to all come together in the school gym and perform a choreographed number spontaneously. Newsflash kids, that sadly doesn’t happen. I remember teaching all of the girls in my class the choreography to “We’re All in this Together” during lunch recess. And I do admit while playing a softball game I was singing “I Don’t Dance” in my head. I pulled out some of my moves when I played outfield. I wasn’t very good so the coach put me on the field in the place where least balls go to. More time to live out my fantasy of dancing with Ryan and Chad.
ved him or hated him, Justin’s side swoop hair and high-pitched voice went straight to my heart. The song that made him famous, 
Claire’s is a store I’m sure many of us girls are familiar with. It was the store you always hit up while you were walking around the mall with your friends and your mom shopped in a different store. But yet, we still felt totally cool and mature as we went shopping “by ourselves.” For many girls it was the place to get your ears pierced. For me it was the place where you could buy tons of squishy bright earrings that were shaped as various animals and desserts. Did I need an 8 pack of cupcake earrings in lots of fun colours? Hell yes I did. I still go in there occasionally just to breathe in all that nostalgia and cheap- ass-products-marked-up to-ridiculous-prices smell.
When I made my MSN account, my life became school… then hours of messenger. We all made stupid email names that we regretted as we got older, had the short “sup” and “nothing much” conversations, and customized your page with different colours and emoticons. Fun story, I was talking to a boy I really liked from school on msn. As I asked him “whats up” he responded with “nm jc”. In my head I was thinking “OMG, he just gave me the nickname JC. He must really like me.” (My initials are JC) I went on with the conversation for a while, sending cute messages until my best friend logged in. I messaged her instantly as I was so excited to update her on my progress with my crush. I shared my good news that he had been using a cute nickname for me, my best friend sadly informed me that “jc” was ‘just chilling’ in text talk. In that moment I learned that this boy may not like me back and also that I wasn’t cool and trendy as I thought.
me want to wear colour coordinated Juicy couture tracksuits with my squad. The empowering songs, fun fashion and sassy dance moves aren’t the only great parts of this movie. It also tackles more serious issues like different economic backgrounds, identity, race and the negative sides of the entertainment indsutry. Their song 
movie came out. This is when my parents made Disney a lot richer. I alone probably helped their box office numbers significantly. I needed to see Lizzie and Gordo travel to Rome on the big screen multiple times. The Lizzie McGuire movie taught me class trips are an awesome place to meet your doppelgänger, impersonate them during a performance in front of thousands and be swooned by a handsome random man you meet. 
I found out this is not exactly true on my trip to New York with school. I did not perform at Radio City Music Hall as my long lost identical twin. That sucks. However, I did learn to not always trust a handsome face and most importantly learnt what dreams are made of!
I got my very first phone in grade five when I started walking home from school. It was a small pink Virgin Mobile flip phone that I absolutely adored. While it would be cool to have my flip phone back, I think I will stick with our phones now. I do not miss the way you had to double or triple click for other letters while texting. I could never reach the number of texts I send a day now with those buttons. Other kids had the phones with the slide out keyboard. But the one thing I had over them is that I could always look important when I ended a call on my flip.
unny videos. Then at recess we would all share what we watched and come home with a list of things to go look for on Youtube. Now a days you can easily share things with just a tap of a button. In under a minute your friend can be watching what you just watched via text or the various social media apps. I hate to sound like those mad hipsters but we are the ones who organically used Youtube to share things with our friends. Kids will never know the struggle now if they can just pull out their new iPhone from their pocket at recess.
Jordan Caroe 