![]() Here are 22 songs from the 90s and early 2000s with the best lyrical advice: 1. “Heal The World” by Michael Jackson (1991) “Heal the world, make it a better place for you and me and the entire human race. I may have heard these songs thousands of times as a child, but it wasn’t until I was an adult that I heard the lyrical advice they were giving me through the radio.Īfter rediscovering several songs from the 90s and early 2000s era, I’m here to share with you some of the best. Just call me a musical medium: I’m about to give you a spiritual awakening on music from the past. The lyrics have meaning as you hear them at this more mature stage.įor me, the best part of listening to songs from my youth (the 90s and early 2000s) is the fact that hearing them is like revisiting a childhood friend I looked up to someone older and wiser who was always one step ahead of me in life. You understand the chaos of the world and why Lenny Kravitz desperately desired an otherworldly escape.Īs you rediscover these songs at a later chapter in your life, they aren’t just songs you memorized as a child and proudly belted out in the car. You can now empathize with bittersweet break-up lyrics after having your heart broken. You’re capable of giving them a place within your life, making a connection to your own reality. You more than likely engaged in little to no introspection as you belted out the lyrics to “Time of Your Life” by Green Day.īut, as an adult, you hear beyond the guitar riffs and boisterous vocals you actually digest the lyrics and their meaning. ![]() For the first time, you really hear the lyrics and understand the meaning for what they are.Īs a child, most songs were just catchy rhymes you knew the words to. It isn’t just the realization that you religiously listened to it through the speakers of the childhood community swimming pool where you spent your summers, but it's also the fact that the nostalgia brings with it a sense of clarity.Īs you listen to that same song years later, you hear it much differently now than you did then. ![]() What makes rediscovering old music so grand is you not only have an album of memories already associated with a certain track and its lyrics, but you’re also able to hear it differently now that you’re older. It’s finally begun to actually feel like 2022, and it is, as they say, about damn time.It’s a wonderful, semi-magical feeling when you discover a new song that really strikes a chord with you a song that instantly becomes your loyal “feel good” song, or speaks volumes with how you’re feeling at that exact moment in your life.īut what’s even better than discovering new music, is rediscovering music you once knew. There’s nothing like being able to recall and recite the lyrics to a song you first heard when you were 10 years old. Here are our 50 favorites from the year so far - songs that either were released or have peaked on the Billboard charts since January 1. And truthfully, even when those top tiers were still occupied entirely by songs from 20, there were still plenty of fascinating things happening at pop’s lower levels - not to mention a decent number of winning ’21 holdovers that didn’t really make their proper impressions on us until the calendar turned. As massive hits from the second half of 2021 continued to linger near the top of top 40 radio and streaming playlists, seemingly refusing to cede room to newer songs - and few major star artists or undeniable smashes came around to claim the space by force - the original music of 2022 struggled to find its footing, at least on the Billboard charts.īut great pop never stays down for long, and in the last month or two, a whole spate of widely anticipated releases by big-name artists have arrived as reinforcements to make inroads for 2022 at the highest levels of popular music. ![]() That was true in the near-literal sense: As late as April, you could browse the Hot 100’s top 20 and still only pick out one or two songs that were actually released in 2022. For a few months there, 2022 was sounding a whole lot like 2021.
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