65 Pop Culture Things That Will Officially Have Happened 10 Years Ago In 2023, And Some Of These Really Feel Like Just Yesterday
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1.Beyoncé headlined one of the greatest Super Bowl halftime shows of all time, and even reunited with Destiny's Child.
2.It was also the year that there was a blackout during the second half of the Super Bowl...
3....which lead to one of the quickest and smartest brand tweet responses ever:
Power out? No problem.
4.After what felt like 25 years of teasing, Justin Timberlake finally reunited with NSYNC at the VMAs for, like, three seconds and people were fucking pissed.
5.It was also during that VMAs that Miley Cyrus twerked on stage and some people were not having it.
6.Everyone was obsessed with playing Flappy Bird...
7....sharing the Doge meme...
8....and watching and sharing Vines.
9.People posted thousands of videos of themselves and their friends doing the "Harlem Shake."
10.Iron Man 3, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Despicable Me 2 the three biggest movies of the year.
11.The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 was the biggest-selling DVD of the year — 'cause we still bought movies back then.
12.Instagram looked like this:
13.And we still put weird filters and borders on our pics.
14.Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her way to pick up her Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook — which instantly became a meme.
15.Anne Hathaway faced a lot of backlash after giving her Best Supporting Actress Oscar acceptance speech.
16.While Argo won Best Picture — which got Ben Affleck his second Oscar (he co-produced the film).
In case you were wondering, he earned his first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon.
17.Disney announced that J.J. Abrams would direct the upcoming (then-untitled) Star Wars Episode 7, and that it would push the release date back to December 2015 (instead of the films' usual May release dates).
18.Seven years after its cancellation, Arrested Development aired its highly anticipated fourth season on Netflix.
19.Orange Is the New Black was arguably the most talked about new show.
20.While Breaking Bad was the best show on television.
21.Taylor Swift embarked on her The Red Tour.
22.Lady Gaga dropped Artpop...
23....while Beyoncé literally changed the way artists release albums, surprising everyone by dropping her self-titled visual album without any promotion or notice.
24.Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience was the biggest-selling album of the year. But it was also the lowest-selling No. 1 album of the year ever — selling just 2.4 million copies.
25.Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's "Thrift Shop" was the biggest song of the year.
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26.Pharrell was featured on two of the biggest songs of that summer, Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"...
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27....and Robin Thicke's problematic AF, "Blurred Lines."
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28.Lindsay Lohan did her infamous interview with Oprah.
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29.Apple released its iPhone 5s, which included new features like a fingerprint sensor and AirDrop.
30.And home screens still looked like this:
31.Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella made its debut on Broadway and was one of the hottest tickets.
32.SyFy's Sharknado was an unexpected hit.
33.While Disney's The Lone Ranger was the biggest box office bomb of the year.
34.MTV aired the never-before-seen alternate ending to The Hills and it was crazy:
35.Game of Thrones aired the shocking "The Red Wedding" episode — and everyone who read the books at the time would remind you that they read the books and knew it was coming.
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36.RuPaul's Drag Race aired its fifth season and introduced us to iconic queens like Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Roxxxy Andrews, Detox, Alyssa Edwards, Coco Montrese, and of course, that season's winner, Jinkx Monsoon.
37.30 Rock aired its final episode.
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38.While Brooklyn Nine-Nine made its debut.
39.As did Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
40.Oxford Dictionaries named "selfie" the word of the year due to a high jump in usage of the word.
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41.While Netflix declared that "binge-watching" would become the new normal for TV.
42.Paul Walker died after his car crashed into a lamp post.
43.Prince William and the Duchess Kate welcomed their first child, Prince George.
44.The Jonas Brothers cancelled their tour and then announced they were breaking up.
45.Miley Cyrus released her bop-tastic and No. 1 classic, "Wrecking Ball" — along with the music video for it that would be parodied a million times.
46.Ariana Grande released her infectious single, "The Way," which earned her her first top 10 single.
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47.Britney Spears introduced "You better work, bitch!" into the lexicon.
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48.While Anna Kendrick had an unexpected hit with her single, "Cups (Pitch Perfect's 'When I'm Gone')."
49.Kim Kardashian wore the infamous Givenchy floral gown to the Met Gala and, of course, the internet had OPINIONS on it.
50.Everyone went crazy for 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target...
51....and Isabel Marant for H&M collabs.
52.New Yorkers were lining up in huge lines to buy cronuts.
53.People were obsessed with the Hot Dog Legs Tumblr.
54.HADOKEN-ing was a HUGE craze.
55.Make-A-Wish teamed up with the city of San Francisco to turn it into Gotham City to fulfill the wish of Miles (aka BatKid), a 5-year-old battling leukemia who loved Batman.
56.Manti Te'o told a story about a girlfriend who died of cancer, but he then admitted it had been a hoax because he had been catfished. Honestly, I still don't understand the whole story, but he recently spoke to NPR about the incident and there is a Netflix doc about it.
57.In maybe the most WTF moment of that year: Justin Bieber pissed into a mop bucket while cussing out Bill Clinton.
58.Candy Crush was the biggest game on Facebook (even though your aunt was probably still sending you FarmVille requests then).
59."What Does the Fox Say?" was the most viral video on YouTube.
60.Halle Berry married Olivier Martinez in France. The two also had a baby boy together who was born three months later.
61.Khloé Kardashian officially filed for divorce from Lamar Odom.
62.While Taylor Swift and Harry Styles (Haylor?) broke up after a few months of dating.
63.Henry Cavill made his debut as Superman in Man of Steel.
64.Disney released its huge, huge hit, Frozen.
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65.And finally, President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term.
