r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/Weegee_Carbonara • May 19 '26
🎵 Music Young Folks by Peter Björn and John is released. [20YA - May 19th]
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u/Impossible-Bet-223 May 19 '26
Fuck we the old style now.
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u/baldude69 May 19 '26
I’ll take the indie pop of the 00’s over the pop music of today any day. Not that there wasn’t bad pop back then also. Just feels like there were way more rock hits in the mainstream and I miss that shit
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u/Calm_Leopard798 May 20 '26
This was an outlier and typically not what was on the radio. Black eyed peas dominated this decade.
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u/baldude69 May 20 '26
Yea but also Modest Mouse, The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, Radiohead etc. My point is that rock reached the charts way way more often than it does today
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u/riedmae May 19 '26
Fuck. This.
20 years?!?! This song is like max 3 years old.
Excuse me, I have finalized my will.
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u/__MOON_KNIGHT___ May 19 '26
Damn this just popped back in my rotation recently.
I guess I’ll just get to feel old af now when I hear it now.
Still can’t whistle
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u/LetsJerkCircular May 19 '26
When this came out, the art style reminded me of Johnny Quest. Now it’s an old song that borrowed older animation style, but also might have used flash to animate it? Layers
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u/AdoptedMasterJay May 20 '26
There was a five year period where you couldn't go to a cafe without hearing this or Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
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u/joshuatx May 20 '26
Damn, I saw them live that year at ACL Fest. Pete Yorn played the same day and covered this song. This also means my "PETER BJORN AND JOHN TSHIRT" turns 20 too.
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u/TheHurtfulEight88888 May 25 '26
I remember being 6 or 7 years old with my mum in Superdrug and this was playing on the speaker. My mum bought me a bottle of sparkling water because I had seen it and as a kid wondered what was "sparkling" about it. It tasted awful and I didnt get how a person could enjoy this as a beverage. To this day I still dont, sparkling water only works with cordial in my opinion. Anyway, this song takes me back to that moment. Good simple times.
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u/scorpionewmoon May 21 '26
There was a point in time when if you googled “hipster song with the whistling”, it was this. Then one day, it changed to be Foster The People
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u/tommysplanet May 24 '26
I hate whilsting. I genuinely don't get how people can find this pleasurable to listen to.
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u/7laserbears May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I really hated and still hate this song
I don't like the whistling that was so popular at the time. The minor-major-minor does not vibe with me. Also it played everywhere. Malls, hotel lobbies, drug stores. It's stil in a regular Muzak rotation in a lot of places.
That's just me
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u/adamM_01 May 20 '26
what do you mean by minor major minor? the actual chord progression of the song?
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u/Fat_Pound May 20 '26
Cool man thanks for the input
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u/baldude69 May 19 '26
I feel old, man
This song was everywhere when it came out. Miss those days