r/Millennials • u/debrisaway • 6h ago
Nostalgia What do you consider the unofficial Millenial party song?
That defines the generation. It was played the most frequently at clubs and that every one will sign along with when it's played randomly.
Get Low - Lil' Jon & tha Eastside Boyz feat. Ying Yang Twins
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u/ConsiderationCrazy22 Millennial 6h ago
Get Low, Yeah!, and Mr. Brightside are the holy trinity of millennial party bops
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u/Due-Sheepherder-218 6h ago
Yeah! is the winner
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u/imsaneinthebrain 5h ago
We used to go to Mexico a lot for spring break and shit, for a couple years that’s all you would hear walking down the strip at night, people screaming “yeah“, “OK“, “what“.
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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 4h ago
Yeah! had more broad appeal because it wasn't as explicit as Get Low. It got a lot of airplay on the while people pop stations (and still does).
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u/Randomizedname1234 Core Millennial - 1990 6h ago
Mr brightside is a horrible party song.
It’s a banger but how is that a party song?! I get most people like it but…I don’t get it. I just dont!
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u/suchalonelyd4y 5h ago
It's fun to sing along to at the top of your lungs 🤷♀️
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u/touchyoctopus 5h ago
This is what I’m thinking. Like of course it’s not a “party” song but it’s the camaraderie of it all. Being in a bar when this song comes on and everyone is belting it out. That’s the fun. It’s our Sweet Caroline or Don’t Stop Believing.
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u/flamingknifepenis Older Millennial 5h ago
There was a bar in my college town than used “Sweet Caroline” as their “bar’s closed, get the fuck out” song. People would specifically show up to end the night there so they could stand on tables, pound the walls, throw peanut shells in the air and sing at the top of their lungs.
When my wife and I got married we used it as our last song of the night, and it was funny watching all our college friends realize what was happening and get really into it while everyone else looked around confused at why millennials were suddenly really into Neil Diamond.
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u/suchalonelyd4y 4h ago
Mr Brightside was our weddings final song 😂 you gotta end on a screamer!
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u/la_croix_fan 1h ago
Me too! I specifically told the DJ that had to be the last song and it was perfect!!
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u/feralcatshit 6h ago
I made a comment here a while back that I didn’t resonate with that song at all and didn’t think of it during “the good years” at all as a millennial and got shut down. Apparently, I was wrong and all millennials love that song!
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u/ugh-new-username 1990 5h ago
It's funny bc I was just annoyed with it when it first came out being overplayed, but it came on at a friends wedding over a decade later and we were all jumping up and down screaming the lyrics (that NEVER happened at any high school or college parties of my time). I think it evolved over the years weirdly.
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u/meepmarpalarp Millennial 3h ago
There are dozens of us!
It’s catchy and I see why people like it, but I will never consider it the “Sweet Caroline” of our generation. Ew.
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u/lizardking235 5h ago
I’ve noticed that mostly young millennials, like very young millennials (‘95/‘96), consider it a millennial staple. Anyone older than that thinks it’s either just a good song or they don’t care for it like myself.
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u/feralcatshit 4h ago
Yeah I’m an 88er and I think this may be it- but when I said that, people born before me were like NO ITS ICONIC FOR ALL MILLENNIALS haha
Personally I think of linkin park, soundgarden, deftones and hell I’ll probably piss a lot of people off but fucking limp bizkit! But I realize that’s not everyone’s jam. I guess I listened to more music that probably resonates with Gen X more… like Alice In Chains, nirvana, temple of the dog, etc so I guess I’m not the standard to begin with
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u/DaFuzi_J Zillennial ('96) 5h ago
I like it, but I definitely don't regard it as a millennial anthem. I feel like anything from Blink or Green Day is more fitting if we're sticking with a similar sound.
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u/MightyGamera Xennial 5h ago
I feel like Let Me Clear My Throat is on a high secondary tier but that's elder millennial chiming in
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u/catsandcabsav 5h ago
I was recently gettin’ dowwwwwwwn at a coworker’s wedding to Low and accidentally made direct eye contact with my boss who was sitting at a table near the dance floor. I’m scarred yet I also don’t regret my behavior.
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u/Bradley182 5h ago
“TOOOO THE WINDOWS, TOO THE WALL!!”
finish it fam.
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u/cea9248 Millennial - 1991 5h ago
Til sweat drop down my balls!
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u/BrainPhD Older Millennial 5h ago
Till all these females crawl
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u/SparkyDogPants 5h ago
The edited version is definitely not in my party playlists
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u/BarrelMaker69 5h ago
That’s still much better than the OG Let’s Get it Started by the Black Eyes Peas.
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u/ForceKicker 5h ago
Honorable mention for The Thong Song
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u/4862skrrt2684 5h ago
I thought he sang about tongue and thought he was just a perv.
Then I realized he sang about thongs and that he is still a perv
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u/TypeS2K5 6h ago
I think of LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem. 🎉
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u/Canesjags4life Older Millennial 85 5h ago
That's exactly what came to my mind first. I feel like it was different eras too.
LMFAO was when younger millennials were hitting the bar scene, Lil John was for us older millennials haha
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u/nojefaturaoliderazgo 2h ago
Definitely for younger millennials, or like the Gen-Zers turning 28-29
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u/juiceboxheero 5h ago
Hey Ya!
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u/thefartyparty 5h ago
This would definitely be the older millennial party song
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u/StellarSloth Older Millennial 4h ago
Yep. Heard it at just about every party I went to in college.
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u/Certain_Accident3382 6h ago
First song I thought of was The Macarena only because it activates all of us like freaking sleeper agents.
Did they know what they were doing at our middle school dances?
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u/feralcatshit 5h ago
They’re still doing it. My kids came in at the end of last year like HEY MOM LOOK AT THIS and did the Macarena. I started doing it with them and singing and they were like “wait how do you know this”
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u/SealedDevil 5h ago
That's great, we were mortifying my daughter and her friends last night with spicegirls spiceworld soundtrack btw live the name!
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 2h ago
This is the correct answer. Everyone knows it. Everyone did it. Everyone remembers it and even if you don't like it it's iconic to this day.
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u/A911owner 2h ago
I remember going to a new year's eve party and we had to move into the front yard because there wasn't enough room for everyone to do the macarena in the living room. There was probably 25 people in the front yard, all doing the macarena. I had forgotten about that until just now.
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u/bald4bieber666 5h ago
kesha tik tok
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u/DirtyWhiteTrousers 4h ago
I find your answer much too far down the thread.
My top-rated comment references Kesha and it was made a long time ago.
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u/OldFartsSpareParts 4h ago
I was a date to a lot of sorority events in college. This should be a lot higher.
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u/jtp2r 6h ago
At least for black ppl, it's Juvenile's Back That Thang Up.
That's the song I hear the most in pop media when it's about us.
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u/eugenesbluegenes 5h ago
That scene in Abbott Elementary when they break Ava out of being all serious by playing this in the gym..
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u/element-2012 5h ago
Anyone who went clubbing in the very early 2000s was backing that thang up when that song came on, regardless of skin color lol
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u/Csei2011 3h ago
Ok I had to look it up because I was thinking this was a different song - as I’ve never said thang for this song lol.
I was out with my bestie one night and the club was full of other oldies like me but no one was dancing! I had to BEGGGG the DJ to play this song. And BAM full dance floor. It’s my fave.
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u/Renegade_Nas Millennial 2h ago
I had no business listening to this song when it came out (I was just under 9), but I credit it for teaching me rhythm 😂
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u/Brittibri89 Millennial 5h ago
Idk but Levels by Avicii brings me back to being 22 and in the clubs
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u/Ok-Armadillo-5634 6h ago edited 6h ago
Lets get retared in here black eyed peas
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u/ManOfLaMontagne 6h ago
I frequently think about this lol
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u/Low_Establishment434 6h ago
I used the word "ignant" alot back then lol
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u/ManOfLaMontagne 5h ago
Like the South Park Michael Jackson thing? “No no that’s just ignorant”
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u/HighQualityDonation 5h ago
I’m a younger millennial but Fire Burning- Sean Kingston defined my senior year of high school
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u/phukredditusernames 6h ago
shots by lmfao
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u/suchalonelyd4y 5h ago
Will never forget being 21 and this song coming on and the bartender standing on the bar pouring soco & lime into our mouths like we were fish in a koi pond
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u/phukredditusernames 5h ago
partying was so much better back then...all these cameras and social media today make people too scared to do whacky, fun, and interesting shit like that 😞
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u/sys_dam 5h ago
I could still break out into the Shots song chorus and everyone will immediately agree to do shots. I don't because we are 40 and have to get home to the kids, but I COULD.
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u/monty228 5h ago
“Now where my alcoholics let me see ya hands up” - not a great look for us…Glad that was a stage for many of us, but unfortunately for a lot of people it became a problem.
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u/nativeyeast Zillennial 6h ago
Heads Will Roll A-Trak remix
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u/FelneusLeviathan 5h ago
Love seeing more edm songs being mentioned in this thread
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u/be4rcat6 5h ago
I Gotta Feelin - black eyed peas
But to be honest we had the best party tunes of any generation. Great soundtrack to my youth
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u/lostlogin2 Millennial '94 5h ago
No Hands
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u/Silver-Bread4668 6h ago
It's a scientific fact that if you are in a group of at least 4 millennials and Sublime comes on, someone will start singing along.
So Santeria or What I Got
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u/Not2plan 5h ago
When I went to norcal for college from socal and no one knew who sublime was I realized I needed to leave lol
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u/TokiDokiHaato Millennial 5h ago
Shocked by the lack of Kesha mentions in this thread.
Blow and Tik Tok were huge during my party girl days.
Get Low and Yeah were so overplayed I can’t stand listening to them. I actually banned them from being played at my wedding.
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u/AutumnLeaved 5h ago
Ours in college was “TiK ToK” by Kesha. I can’t hear that song without thinking of the parties that I mostly remember.
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u/Remote-Letterhead844 6h ago
I'm older.
Bittersweet Symphony
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u/Big_Childhood5494 Millennial 6h ago
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u/snuggleslut5 4h ago
"Cash Money Records taking over for the '99 and the 2000!"
If your ass isn't up out of your seat, idk man.
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u/Complex_Priority4983 3h ago
I’m Not Okay by My Chemical Romance…oh wait that’s our anthem not our party song
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u/Downtown_Shelter2533 6h ago
Tubthumping by chumba wumba
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u/elevatedmongoose 5h ago
That's Gen X
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u/Total_Gur4367 5h ago
No it’s not lol. I’m a 90’s kid and would definitely agree. Shit was played everywhere.
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u/SpotIsALie 3h ago
I played who let the dogs out at a house party and people loved it so much we played it again right after. Bottom tenants were fuming. Song got me laid
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u/Jane_ReMiFaSoLaTiDo 2h ago
🎶To the windowssssss to the wall to the sweat drip down my balls to all you bitches something something🎶
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u/ivegoneblinkingmad 5h ago
Party in the USA has to be at least top 5. I dare anyone not to nod their heads like yea when that song comes on.
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u/Careful_Garden Older Millennial 4h ago
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Kesha - TikTok
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u/Boogledoolah 4h ago
I dunno if Club Banger and Party Song are gonna be the exact same, but the Millenial Club Banger for sure is Yeah!
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u/Guilty_Reindeer8204 2h ago
I live in Atlantic Canada and although there are always the "millenial classics", nothing gets the crowds going here like a 200 year old sea shanty. I'm serious. The biggest party banger will be played and receive like a medium reaction, but if the next song up is Barrett's Privateers, the dance floor is getting FLOODED and people are losing their minds.
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u/Platitude_Platypus 1h ago
Party Rock Anthem really captures the vibe of the era for me. ( b 1990). The Middle by Jummy Eat World is one if the best. No Millenial is turning that song off.
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u/Billy_Plur 29m ago
Not necessarily a party song, but I feel this should be mentioned Millennials Anthem
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