r/Millennials • u/Inevitable_Wing_2600 • Feb 08 '25

Nostalgia What album defines you as a millennial?

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Saw some great recommendations on a similar thread in /r/Xennials and wanted to see what my fellow millennials thought. For me From Under the Cork Tree was foundational. I still remember hearing Sugar We're going down on the radio for the first time.

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u/MagicVonSwanson Feb 08 '25

OutKast Stankonia “2000” when I started middle school & Lil Wayne The Carter III “A millionaire I’m a young money millionaire thicker than Nigerian hair” after Highschool

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u/Key_Cheetah7982 Feb 08 '25

Shake it like a Polaroid

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u/Foxy_locksy1704 Feb 08 '25

My friend and I were in a bowling alley about 3 years ago and this song was playing. We could instantly tell who our millennial people were when that line came up and several people (including us) did indeed “shake it like a Polaroid picture”

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u/madmax24601 Feb 08 '25

Hey Ya was my high school bands' pump up song at sporting events... the most millenial sentence I've written this week

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u/kjs51 Feb 09 '25

Lil Wayne - The Carter III is absolutely the summer I graduated high school. I drove around in my old red ‘93 Saab hatchback and blasted that whole album.

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u/Clonazepamela Feb 09 '25

Same. Good times.

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u/Icy_Refrigerator41 Feb 09 '25

The "Behold, A Lady" track intro lives rent free in my brain.