{"id":3589,"date":"2018-02-23T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:09:29","slug":"news-flash-2008-was-a-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"News Flash: 2008 Was a Decade Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Jordan Hanson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although 2018 has been the year of artists such as Camilla Cabello and Kendrick Lamar, sometimes a song will play on the radio or at a party that throws things back to 2008. A decade ago, Adele was still a new artist, Miley Cyrus was just shaking off her Hannah Montana persona and Lady Gaga was proving that she wasn\u2019t a one-hit-wonder. Additionally, Britney Spears had just risen from the ashes and Beyonc\u00e9 had only recently broken off from Destiny\u2019s Child. Many artists who were just getting started in 2008 would continue to rise up the charts throughout the years, including P!nk, Coldplay and Katy Perry, who are still big names in the music industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other artists, such as the Ting Tings and the Pussycat Dolls, have faded from the public eye or broken apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nostalgia is a powerful force, and some songs from 2008 are still known by heart. Take Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cSingle Ladies\u201d for example \u2013 our generation still gets as pumped today as we did 10 years ago for this catchy song about feminine independence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, for nostalgia\u2019s sake, here are 10 songs turning 10 years old in 2018: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cChasing Pavements\u201d (Adele), \u201cSo What\u201d (P!nk), \u201cViva la Vida\u201d \u2013 Coldplay, \u201cWhen I Grow Up\u201d (The Pussycat Dolls), \u201cThat\u2019s Not My Name\u201d (The Ting Tings), \u201cI Kissed a Girl\u201d (Katy Perry), \u201c7 Things\u201d (Miley Cyrus), \u201cWomanizer\u201d (Britney Spears), \u201cPoker Face\u201d (Lady Gaga) and \u201cI\u2019m Yours\u201d (Jason Mraz).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jordan Hanson Although 2018 has been the year of artists such as Camilla Cabello and Kendrick Lamar, sometimes a song will play on the radio or at a party that throws things back to 2008. A decade ago, Adele was still a new artist, Miley Cyrus was just shaking off her Hannah Montana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}