If you ever attended your old school discos, you’d know the kind of music that would have been played by the DJ, aka, someone’s relative or one of the teachers. Running up to the smoke machine every time it sprayed out and squinting at the lights as they blared at you, each school disco consisted of the kids dancing to Vengaboys’ ‘We Like To Party’ and to Steps’ ‘5,6,7,8’.

Frequently running up to the hatch to grab a small white plastic cup of Morrison’s better buy cola and lemonade that would be ten pence was a norm, and let’s not forget how flat the drink was. Also, not to mention having to sit on the floor where you’d find yourself placing your hand in some squished crisps or drink that was split whilst doing the YMCA on the floor in rows with your class friends. Quite often you’d get all the younger classes watching the older classes in the school taking to the dance floor and doing the dance routine to Los de Rio’s ‘Macarena’ thinking they were so amazing for being in time of the movements – but really they just wanted to show off.

Looking back now to those school discos, the music that was played was rather cheesy and thinking about it now, how on earth did we dance to those songs? But it was all about growing up in the nineties and becoming a part of that decade that people today still feel nostalgic about. Talking about some of the S Club 7 hit songs like ‘Reach’ and ‘Bring It All Back To You’ to your current friends feels like you have to be brave because they’ve become guilty pleasures and no one wants to be laughed at, especially after explaining how much you danced to them in your bedrooms as a young kid getting ready for the discos.

Whether or not they will admit it, many people will secretly listen to all the nineties hits from back in the day, reliving the feelings of their childhood and bringing back those memories of not paying attention to what is going on around them. Even Spotify has playlists of the nineties hits that listeners have created.

It seems to be one of the most talked about decades amongst people who were born at the end of the eighties and mid-nineties, but then again it was the decade where young kids would play outside all day instead of being inside and playing on the current consoles like the majority of children growing up today. They don’t even know what the music was like growing up in the nineties and miss out on all the cheesy classics that we grew up on. It’ll be interesting to see if kids today will venture into the music that was well known in the nineties.

Words by Gabbi Marsden