The final track to their album Pet Sounds, ‘Caroline No’ is a song about growth and maturity. The indie-rock anthem touches on finding the beauty in life despite hopelessness and despair. The concept for this song came to Otis while he was looking at the ocean in California. Otis Redding – ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay It makes listeners feel young, invincible, and ready to take on the world. ‘Heroes’ was featured in Stephen Chbosky’s film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower for a good reason. It makes you contemplate the ‘could have beens’ of life, making you wonder: what if things didn’t turn out the way they did? ‘Yesterday’ showcases the emotion that comes after being left by someone dear to you. Some songs would make you feel nostalgic, others, well … they’re literally about nostalgia. It seems like a lifetime has passed since its debut, but the record is still easily one of our favorites. It won three Grammy awards in 2010 and sold over 6.1 million copies worldwide. This song doesn’t even need an introduction.

Released in 2009, the song is more than 10 years old, but why does it feel like it was just released yesterday? “You Belong with Me,” with the banjo twanging away in the intro, was Taylor Swift’s country-to-pop crossover hit. More than a decade later, it remains one of Kesha’s most successful hits. Released in August 2009, ‘Tik Tok’ was the single that catapulted the artist to stardom. Justin Bieber, thanks to his hit ‘Baby,’ found his way into countless teenage girls’ hearts back when the song was first released in January 2010. It urges people to live their lives the way they want to or on simpler terms, YOLO. ‘Just a Dream,’ which was released in August 2010, remains one of Nelly’s most popular songs. Let’s take a walk down memory lane with music that brings back memories: But sometimes you come across an old song and it transports you back to a time that now seems so distant. The music industry has never had a shortage of new and upcoming talents. Iconic Songs Guaranteed to Make You Feel Nostalgic Which is why no matter how our consumption of music changes, it will never change the impact music can have on us as emotional beings. It’s a miracle of memory which highlights the complexity of the brain and its infinite capacity to store information in a box. In other words it’s a set of events in your memory waiting for another event or sensation to match the original. In order to evoke memories, sensations need precise connections. But, Madeleines aside, music can induce nostalgia faster and easier than almost anything else.Īccording to scientists Schulkind, Hennis, Rubin and Professor Ira Hyman, a song triggers an emotion that matches the emotion felt at the time the event happened. It has become a famous literary reference used to describe a situation where a gesture or object triggers a long-forgotten memory buried in the subconscious mind. In the book ‘In Search Of Lost Time’, Proust describes how he dips the cake into some tea and it suddenly sends him back to a childhood memory when he ate Madeleines with his Aunt. Almost all sensory experiences can trigger nostalgia, most famously Proust’s Madeleine (a type of French sponge cake). In times of hardship, a lot of people turn to the music of their youth for solace.

Listening to a song can trigger some pretty intense memories – your first kiss, your first car ride, your first heartbreak, or happy moments with the family.

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