I was jamming in my SUV to the best songs of the 90s the other day. (Gotta love the Songza app!) Then Will Smith started rapping in my earbuds. I turned it up and sang every word I could remember.
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Gettin Jiggy Wit It
That song just makes me feel so happy. I remember dancing to it in my bedroom, my computer speakers turned up loud. Trying to do my best hip hop moves and rapping my blond heart out.
So when I turn on Pandora or Songza and play song after song from the 90s and 2000s, I dance. I sing. I feel those happy, hopeful, optimistic emotions wash over me and I let myself smile freely. I never want to lose my youth, I don’t ever want to be so overburdened by responsibilities and stress that I forget to imagine, dream and dance. Nobody can take this essence from me except me. I have to let it fall in the cracks to let it fall asleep and I refuse to do that.
Music takes me back. Hanson, Britney Spears, Christina Auguilera, Will Smith, N’SYNC and dc Talk – those are the artists that awaken my memories. So when I work out, I have to turn on my 90s music station. I hope no one watches me as I’m on the treadmill, I start to mouth the words to “Bye Bye Bye” and I’m sure I look ridiculous. But I don’t care!
Reading takes me back too. Every night I read “A Wrinkle in Time” to my first grade daughter. She begins to fall asleep and I keep reading and reading. I get wrapped up in the words, the feelings of the characters and the adventure. I remember devouring book after book as a young girl, desperate to experience drama without actually having to live it. I want to re-read more books I loved as a girl – Island of the Blue Dolphins will be next!
Oh and I found some sweet gummy adult vitamins! Have you heard of Smartypants vitamins? I hadn’t until they sent me a sample bottle. Now I am hooked. I’ve tried other gummy vitamins, but these are different. They are sugar coated. They taste dangerously like candy! But their texture is way better than candy cause they don’t stick to my teeth. Their label says I can take 6 candies a day, so I take two gummies, three times a day. And I love every single dose.
Now I can take vitamins without having to pull a “Baby Mama” (watch the scene below. It kills me every time!)
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My favorite books were history books
I loved the classic children books like Heidi, Little House on the Prairie, Pollyanna, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, etc.
liked Genesis
My favorite music was anything Bruce Springsteen!
I loved 80’s music in high school. Don’t tell anyone.
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I love reading nancy drew when I was younger
The hair bands of the 80s
I loved Bon Jovi when I was teen
I loved any music from Ricky Nelson. My books were Nancy Drew
I loved all types of country music.
I read the Hardy Boys.
The Beach Boys – 3 concerts
I was a teenager in the 80’s and loved the 80’s rock and pop.
My fav music – Pat Benatar! 🙂
All babysitter club books
i loved reading sword of truth & wheel of time series
favorite music was NSync
I was a Beatles fan.
I can always tell you’re just a FEW years younger than me based on your boy band love. Lol. I agree though, those 90’s tunes are SO awesome! It was such a glorious time, and I can’t help but feel so… young and out of current stress when those types of songs are playing.. I’ve had ‘summuh summah summer-time’ going through my head all morning… no reason, just… there!
used to love the sweet valley high series
Favorite books were Nancy Drew when I was little. Can’t wait to read them to my kids!
I liked Pearl Jam as a teen.
when I was a teen I liked country and pop music
Van Halen was my favorite band when I was a teenager
I am really old so my favorite music was Janis Joplin and my favorite book was To Kill A Mockingbird.
I loved the Magic Treehouse books as a kid! I read them all the time
when I was a teen I liked country music
I loved Nirvana as a teen.
As a teen my favorite band was Bon Jovi.
I liked The Cure as a teen and still do!
I got totally hooked on all the the Jeeves books
I loved Hamlet.
liked country music
I loved listening to New Kids on the Block as a teen! It was also my first concert…taken to by my Dad. Sooo embarrassed at the time but now a great memory.
My favorite book as a teen was Glass by Ellen Hopkins
I loved NSYNC and the Nancy drew mystery series
I’m 61 and my favorite music was the Beach Boys – thank you.
I liked Fleetwood Mac.
I read a lot of science fiction when I was a teenager, particularly books by Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury!
REO speed wagon…
I was in love with Barry Manilow as a teen.
Probably Nsync or the spice girls. LOL
Soundtrack to Grease was my favorite music.
i liked pop music
Funny how the music I grew up with is still my favorite. I love Classic Rock like The Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, and lots more.
i loved no doubt
I liked The Rolling Stones.
I’m in that whole mix too! Will Smith, Backstreet Boys and Boys II Men were constant on our radios lol
I absolutely loved any music by Billy Joel.
I love all grunge and alternative music from the 90s. Third Eye Blind, Nirvana and Pearl Jam were all favourites.
Punk rock, screamo stuff. Yeah, I was one of those 😛
loved the spice girls and clueless
I loved NSYNC and Boys II Men when I was a teen!
I liked new kids on the block.
Madonna was my fav!
Rick Springfield when I was a teen
I loved Bush as a teen.
I was a huge fan of The Babysitters Club
My favourite book was The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I’ve read it so many times that the pages are falling out. I recommend it if you haven’t read it, and when you’re done you can watch the movie they made (last year?). They did a really good job on it, and Emma Watson’s in it too! Yay Hermoine!
I loved Radiohead and REM as a teen – and I still do now in my 30s!
Ok……I’m showing my age here, but I liked the Beatles and the Monkees.
I was a metal head in High School LOL
I liked Bel Biv Devoe, and other hip hop artists
Gotta be Goonies 🙂
I liked Britney Spears
I liked Nancy Drew books as a teen
The Bee Gees and their bother, Andy Gibb, were my favorites when I was growing up.
I liked Spice Girls
Pop music was my favorite as a teen! My favorites were ‘NSYNC and Backstreet Boys!
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I loved Girls just wanna have fun!
Lord of the Rings
Queen
My favorite music during my teens was pop and rock. I listened to a lot of Duran Duran, Pat Benetar, and U2 growing up in the eighties 🙂
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I was that kid that loved Eminem! 🙂
My favorite book as a teen was definitely the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series (I own a huge book that contains all the books in the series). I read it over and over again like crazy.
I just wanted to say, I’m a 90s kid and I put 90s songs on on Pandora all the time. I have no shame whatsoever about it. I don’t care who sees me singing and dancing to the Spice Girls. 😛
Of course I’m showing my age here, but my teen music idols were The Beatles!
I was obsessed with Guns n Roses as a teen. I had posters of Axl Rose all over my bedroom wall 🙂
I was into motley crue and def leppard.
I love NSync!
My favorite music when I was a teen was I really liked Elton John. His albums are incredible!
I liked nirvana as a teen.
I was into what they call “Hair Metal” now, but of course, that was heavy metal then.
britney spears
Britney Spears and Keith Sweat
I loved Duran Duran! I’m a kid of the 80’s and still love the music from that time.
I think I go back a little *ahem* further to the 70’s and 80’s but my favourite would have to be Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. I play the Walking on Sunshine Pandora station all the time when I’m cooking supper and the kids and I all dance to it. Good times! 🙂
I loved reading Dapple gray growing up! and My side of the mountain!
Back in the day, I was into Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”
I loved the Hobbit.
Thanks for the chance.
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One of my favorite books was the Baby Sitter Club series. Thanks for the giveaway!
When I was a teenager I liked New Kids on the Block.
pop music as a teen
I loved Pearl Jam….after a brief infatuation with New Kids on the Block…LOL
i loved debbie gibson 🙂
I loved rock & roll as a teen.
Movie – Pretty women
Book: Flowers in the Attic
I loved Nsync!
Loved Hanson, then graduated to NSync.. haha!
I loved “The Outsiders”. I read that book over and over!
Baby Sitters Club
I loved new edition and michael jackson as a teen
As a teen, my favorite music was Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Rush, Heart, Styx, The Alan Parsons Project, Pat Benatar and a lot of other classic rock and metal. My favorite books were The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Dragonriders of Pern series.
OH I loved REO Speedwagon and Queen 🙂
I loved Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees!!!
Nancy Drew books. Deb P
I loved the Cure, Violent Femmes, U2, INXS, all kinds of stuff!
Im an 80’s girl. My all time favorites are Journey, REO Speedwagon and Styx.
I used to like to read nightmare hall when I was a teen
My favorite movies was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves… I still have a crush on Kevin Costner! 🙂
I liked the spice girls.
u2 aerosmith led zep pink floyd
I was a 90’s teen too, and the music from the late 90’s also really takes me back to the good times…maybe the best times of my life…Backstreet Boys and N’Sync were faves!
The Jets and Menudo were 2 of my favorite groups
I loved listening to Will Smith in the 90s.. Thanks for the giveaway
I loved Salt and Pepa.
Favorite book was Anne of Green Gables. Favorite music would have been The Hansons.
Music wise, I was very into country as a teen, like Tim McGraw and Garth Brooks. For books it was anything mystery/thriller type. I read things from Agatha Christy to Dean Koontz 🙂
I loved New Kids on the Block.
I really loved Tori Amos when I was a teen…still do 🙂
Loved Nirvana
oh boy, BSB was where it was. 🙂 haha.
As a younger teen, I was a huge fan of Duran Duran
In junior high I loved New Kids on the Block. High school was a mix of Metallica, Boys 2 Men, and Reba McEntire. Odd mix for sure!
BSB & NSYNC & 98 Degrees lol
My favorite music was by Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan.
Bryan Adams, Red hot Chili Peppers and Bon Jovi 🙂
Awesome giveaway. I love 90’s music too =]
Also Britney Spears and BSB were my fave childhood bands lol.
My all time favorite movie is “The Lost Boys”. I saw it at least 50 times as a teen and still watch it now whenever it’s on.
My favorite was and still is Bon Jovi. I love the 80’s rock bands!!!
My favorite music as a teen was Journey and REO Speedwagon
I used to love Bon Jovi and Journey
I was in love with New Kids on the Block! 🙂 And just got to see them this year. Lol!
Trying to win. hah
I was obsessed with the backstreet boys growing up, esp Nick.
N*Sync and BSB, New Kids on the Block, 98 degrees… I was a big boy band fan in my teens haha
My favorite music was definitely the 90s pop and I still listen to that channel on my Sirius XM 🙂
I loved Nirvana, Alice & Chains, 2 pac and Mast P.
I used to love boy bands! Who am I kidding I still do LOL! My favorites were New Kids on The Block
As a teen my favorite music band was Air Supply.
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i have always loved heavy metal..even now
My favorite was Motley Crue!!
I liked Rock n Roll when I was a teen!!! G&R!!!!
My favorite music was pop – mainly Madonna!
If I remember correctly it was Anne Frank, it was a life so different than mine and I just wanted to learn more about what happened to her.
I liked Charlotte’s Web.
80’s music especially Prince.
I loved reading the Babysitters Club books
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I had a bit of an NSYNC problem as a teen.
I loved Ace of Base – LOL!!
I was a huge Mandy Moore fan!
My favorite book was the Anita Blake series.
Pop!
I loved pop boy bands backstreet boys nsync
My favorite book was the Diary of Anne Frank
Chronicles of Narnia and Anne of Green Gables
I was a big fan of Poison 🙂
My favorite music as a teen was 80s hair metal bands like Bon Jovi and Night Ranger.
I loved LL Cool J as a teen and the book To Kill A Mocking Bird
Johnny Cash
I like Michael W. Smith as a teen.
Bon Jovi!
The Cure
I have to say I was always listening to Britney Spears and Aaron Carter!
I liked Britney Spears
Rick Springfield’s ‘Dont’ talk to strangers’ was a fave. 🙂
Pearl Jam
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young—-I still love this band!
A Wrinkle in Time is one of my all-time favorite books. I re-read it every couple of years and give it as a present whenever there’s a young girl in my life.
Thanks for the contest.
Nsync and Bsb
My favorites were Metallica and Black Sabbath. Actually they still are my favorites.
I was a teen in the 70’s, my favorite music is classic rock & still is. My daughter still loves Hanson then and now.
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Zac Hanson really turned out to be a HOTTIE, lol.
We are eerily very similar since I am a nostalgia addict and my kids watch Alf and have read both the books you mentioned. My favorite series back in the day was Sweet Valley High with Liz and Jessica!
I will fully admit to being a New Kids on the Block fan.
I will date myself here- I was a Deadhead.
babysitters club series
I loved these Redwood books.
I used to listen to Brittney Spears, TLC and Jagged edge over and over, my poor parents lol
i loved 2pac when i was a teen!
I loved Buffalo Springfield group.
Judas Priest is and continues to be my favorite band from the 80s to current.
peter paul and mary…but thats because my moms a hippie and thats what i grew up with! but i loved newsboys too!
My favorite book as a teen was Flowers in the Attic
I was a teen in the late 70’s-early 80’s. I loved Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Van Halen, etc….
I loved all the hair bands…Poison, Warrant, Bon Jovi, Skid Row, & Guns N Roses….etc,etc,etc.
I loved all motown when I was a kid.
I loved Metallica
I remember reading the Vampire Diaries when I was younger! I was shocked to see how popular they are now 🙂
But as a kid any LJ Smith book was my favorite 🙂
I liked Van Halen
I liked mysteries like Nancy Drew as a teen.
My favorite book as a teen was The Outsiders. It was my stepson’s favorite as well. Still waiting for my daughter to discover it.
I use to love rap music..lol
My favorite music as a teen was Led Zeppelin.I loved rock music
I liked too read the Babysitter club books when I was younger.
Thanks for the giveaway… The Smiths
I literally just found a Shaun Cassidy 8 track tape in one of my boxes today and it was my all time favorite then
My favorite music as a teen in the 80’s was all things Pop music (Madonna, Inxs, Richard Marx, Duran Duran, etc.)
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