im making a "soundtrack" for this one story (i listen to music while write. it helps bring the scene to life for me) and i need to go back about ten years. so, while im composing my list, im remembering and recalling some songs that i loved, what my friends loved, what some of the big hits were (sadly, there is not a lot of rap and no country on this list because i did not listen to that music. not much pop on here either, but some. some of it became so mainstream that there was no way of shutting it off. it was literally everywhere).
and, as im composing this list, im thinking to myself about some of the songs, "Goddamn, this sucks so bad! But it brings back some good memories so I guess it's not that bad."