Well I said I needed to get out of the 90s and wouldn’t you know it, I have to pick a song from my preteen years, aka the 2000s. Let’s add some variety to this shit for a change!
Day 12: A song from your preteen years
2020: “Ruby”, Kaiser Chiefs
I’ll admit this is the first and only song of the Kaiser Chiefs that I’ve heard, at least that I care to remember. But I definitely recall hearing it a lot around 2006/07 so that made it an easy choice for me last time I did the 30 Day Song Challenge.
But now I have to consider what to choose all these years later. My immediate thought is that Peter Kay charity single about Amarillo, mainly because whenever we went on the bus for a school trip, everyone would be singing it the whole way. You think 6-7 is bad? Spare a thought for the poor bastards who had to supervise us for hours on end while ad nauseam we would all sing ‘Tra la la la la la’ (with an ‘England’ on the end during the 2006 World Cup. I drew France that year in the class sweepstake. Bugger.)
Anyway, not going for that one. Here’s another one that just about sneaks into my preteen days.
2025: “I Gotta Feeling”, Black Eyed Peas
So no one really gives a toss about the Black Eyed Peas anymore do they? Am I right in thinking they peaked with this song, hence it still appears once in a blue moon on the radio??
Anyway it set me up for the night-out vibes I would rarely if ever experience as an adult but at least it successfully captured the tone of what it sung about. It’s another one I would regularly hear when I was younger, and I think I’m right in saying it cropped up a lot during school discos and trips. Other than that…I think it’s more of a guilty pleasure for me now. I don’t mind hearing it, but it’s not really something I’d have on repeat. But hey at least it resembles a tune, unlike most of what followed from the BEPs. “Dirty Bit”, anyone?
A-Side Glance 