ONTD Original: 10 songs that turn 15 this year yet STILL hold up!

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Bops from 2003, baby. Ready for this post, grandmas and grandpas?

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Relationships Suck.

Black Eyed Peas, Shut Up

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Album: Elephunk
Birthday: November 4
Age rating: Relatable lyrics about your Facebook feed. The song is a bop, but it would be nothing without Fergie / female vocals.
Notes: Fergie's first song with the group before even officially becoming a member. Shut Up was an international success, despite not even reaching the Billboard Hot 100 in the United Flop of America


No Doubt, It's My Life

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Album: No Doubt's first Greatest Hits album
Birthday: November 14
Age rating: A catchy song with a video featuring a woman killing men and not appropriating cultures? Ageless.
Notes: A great cover originally released in 1984 by Talk Talk.


Dido, White Flag

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Album: Life for Rent
Birthday: September 1
Age rating: If you watch too many dramas from ten years ago, this overplayed ass song probably hasn't aged well for you. Either way, it's a really beautiful song about ONTD's abandonment issues.
Notes: Seriously though, it's great.


Self-reflection.

Christina Aguilera, Fighter

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Album: Stripped
Birthday: March 13 - already fifteen!
Age rating: Super artistic video with an angry enthusiasm that took place years before Stefani was strutting the New York streets wearing Versace.
Notes: Maybe it was too ahead of its time for certain people.


The White Stripes, Seven Nation Army

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Album: Elephant
Birthday: March - already fifteen!
Age rating: It still manages to pump up a crowd.
Notes: Jack White was saving the guitar's riff in case he was ever asked to do a James Bond theme lmao, thank goodness we got this instead!


Evanescence, Bring Me To Life

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Album: Fallen
Birthday: April 22
Age rating: It was your guilty pleasure during your vampirefreaks.com days.
Notes: It was featured on Daredevil, which is the origin story about how Fatman decided to stop being blind as a bat to instead only dress like one.


Nelly Furtado, Powerless (Say What You Want)

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Album: Folklore
Birthday: October 7
Age rating: This corny ass bop hasn't aged well, this is pure nostalgia. Because you all miss her, god damnit.
Notes: Canadia.


Sex.

Britney Spears, Breathe On Me

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Album: In The Zone
Birthday: November 12
Age rating: Still completely fuckable.
Notes: Dirrty who? Slave 4 U what? Breathe On Me gave us one of Britney's most gloriously slutty performances. Just put your lips together and blow.


Beyoncé, Naughty Girl

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Album: Dangerously in Love
Birthday: June 23
Age rating: Bey has had some of her most stunning moments in this video alone, but her sultry voice and the lusty vibe of the song is hot as hell, and that hasn't changed.
Notes: The music video and song as a single was released in 2004, almost a year after Dangerously in Love hit stores.


Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey ft. Flipmode Squad, I Know What You Want

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Album: It Ain't Safe No More
Birthday: March 17
Age rating: Mariah owns this bitch with her sexy tone. This song screams 2003 though tbh
Notes: and so does the video.


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