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20th December 2016
12:10am GMT
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you're getting on a bit.
And while you remember dancing and singing along to these tunes back when they were on the radio, they're now 18 years old – meaning that kids who were actually being born at the time can now legally sit beside you in the pub and get absolutely hammered.
Here are 27 tunes you remember like they were released mere days ago... despite the fact that they really, really were not.
Click here for the playlist on Spotify.
When your mum sang along to this song in the car, your life ended there and then. You didn't realise it until today, but you still haven't recovered.
Easily, EASILY the greatest Spice Girls song of all – and certainly the most underrated – this stands up as a real pop gem. AND it was filmed in Ringsend.
Edit: It was Stoneybatter, not Ringsend. Ewps.
(Oh, and while we're on the topic... Wannabe is two decades old this year. Just so you know.)
This was released to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary.
That same film is now 38 years old. Help.
You still know the dance, 18 years on. Ever wonder what important information you could otherwise store in that brainspace?
They also released this absolute RIP of The Winner Takes It All by ABBA in 1998.
Seriously, this is shameless.
You may ask 'whatever happened to Jennifer Paige?'.
Well, conveniently, she answered that very question in a recent article.
Remember Kerri-Ann, the Irish answer to Billie Piper?
Of course you don't.
"Some people say I look like me da."
A cover of The Sundays' song which sounds basically identical to the original. Lovely tune all the same, though.
The song that introduced Cerys Matthews's voice (and accent) to the world.
Mayyybe the best song on this list, though that's very much open to debate.
The soundtrack to many a slow-dance in The Orphan Girl disco.
Mmf.
Titanic was released in 1997, but it wasn't until the spring of the following year that this song did the opposite of what Leo did in the film – and rose up to the top.
Don't say the Garth Brooks saga was never foreshadowed.
The follow-up to 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies, which, in fairness, was one of the best Bond themes of the grim Pierce Brosnan era.
The song that sampled Islands In The Stream to create a chorus so infectious that it ended C'Est La Vie's reign of terror on the Irish charts.
But... this can't be 18.
IT JUST CAN'T.
HUH!
Aside from the fact that Ben Affleck was in it, this is literally the only detail anyone will be able to recall about Armageddon.
Cher made her comeback with this absolute banger, when she was just a whipper-snapper at the age of 52; she turns 70 this May, and is still as much a legend as ever.
How did this even come about?
Who cares. Again... that voice.
In retrospect, Louis Walsh was clearly using this music video to test out some concepts for Westlife – who were getting ready for their unveiling at the time.
This was a re-record of an old B-side, but to be fair, the video nails it as a late-nineties Irish classic.
French dance at its French danciest.
Better known as the "WHAT's she gonna look like with a chimney on her" song.
Before Ms Piper even had a surname, or married Chris Evans, she offered up this debut single – perhaps the lamest attempt at rebellious rabble-rousing of all time.
Another one that your ma WAS NOT ALLOWED SING.
How did we know what angst was before this song was released?
Well at least one half of the band name is accurate.
Except for the Stardust track (cos it's probably on Deezer instead) and the Kerri-Ann track (cos... y'know).
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