About This Quiz
Man, where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday we were playing on the first iPad, mourning the end of "Lost" and creating our Facebook accounts. We're talking about 2010 — now a full decade ago.
Sure, a lot has happened since then, but can we pay our respects to the year that birthed the past decade? We flung birds at evil pigs in "Angry Birds." We plotted how we'd escape the zombies in "The Walking Dead." We learned to love (or hate) vuvuzelas, those noisemakers crowds carried during World Cup games. We've come a long way, of course. There have been two dozens iterations of the iPad since then. "The Walking Dead" has been confirmed for its 11th season. "Angry Birds" has spawned 17 versions, two movies and countless pieces of apparel and accessories. (Apparently, we really identify with birds that are angry. Go figure.)
2010 was a big year for music, too. Biebermania was still going strong, Lady Gaga turned heads in a dress made of meat and pop stole the show. Can you "Work Your Magic" and identify these song lyrics from 2010? "OMG," we "Need You Now!" "Whatcha Say?" Let's go!
Don't all of us wake up feeling like P. Diddy? That was the name producer/singer Sean Combs used once upon a time. He has also gone by the names Puff Daddy, Puffy, Brother Love and Diddy.
Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" was a smash hit in 2010, reaching No. 1 status in 11 different countries. The lines included here are the start of the chorus, which continues, "You had my heart inside your hand/But you played it with a beating."
Hey, we all need to know sometimes if we look OK, so no judgment here. Bruno's song was a summer 2010 hit. His response to her question? "When I see your face/There's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're amazing/Just the way you are." Awww!
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Rihanna sang this line in a song with a similar name, "Only Girl (In The World)," as part of her 2010 album, "Loud." In the song, she is telling a lover how she wants him to make her feel: "Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love/Like I'm the only one who knows your heart."
The start of "Pumped Up Kicks," the debut single for the group Foster The People, includes these lyrics: "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / you'd better run." It was one of the most popular songs at the time, appearing on TV shows from "Entourage" to "Gossip Girl."
"Baby" was one of the songs that vaulted Justin Bieber to superstardom. The chorus (sing it with us): "Baby, baby, baby oh/Like baby, baby, baby no/Like baby, baby, baby no oh/Thought you'd always be mine, mine."
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American rapper B.o.B.'s debut album, "B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray," helped the singer burst onto the music stage. The song featured in this question, "Airplanes," is also the missing word from the lyrics.
"And it's probably 'cause you think you're cooler than me." At least, that's what Mike Posner thought in "Cooler Than Me." That's why she never could remember his name, apparently, although we don't see how the two are related exactly.
Not only did Taio Cruz say, "We gon' light it up/Like it's dynamite," but he told us he has to "throw his hands up in the air sometimes" and let go. Cruz is a British recording artist whose album, "Rokstarr," was released in 2010.
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Canadian rapper Drake teamed with Kanye West, among others, to create this song from his first album, "Thank Me Later." He also includes the line, "I'm more than just a number" in the song's second verse.
Of course, she was on the dance floor! She was probably dancing to this song, "OMG," or any number of Usher's other dance club-esque tunes. The song was a single from Usher's sixth album, titled "Raymond v. Raymond."
Sara Bareilles was making her feelings clear in "King of Anything" with these lyrics: "Who cares if you disagree?/You are not me/Who made you king of anything?" She later reiterates her sentiment: "Who died and made you king of anything?" Well, OK then.
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DJ Khaled certainly is one to spread the love with his music, including T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross on his hit, "All I Do Is Win." The 2010 release is still played frequently at sporting events across the country.
Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How To Dougie" was a viral sensation of sorts even back in 2010 with its drum beat and accompanying dance. Of course, you'd need someone to, ahem, teach you how to Dougie.
Eminem and Rihanna joined forces on the song, "Love the Way You Lie," a 2010 release on Eminem's album, "Recovery." These lines are from the start of the song: "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn/But that's alright, because I like the way it hurts."
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Not only does Travie "wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine," but he wants to do it, "Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen." "Billionaire" was a 2010 release from McCoy's album, "Lazarus."
"Daisy dukes/Bikinis on top/Sun-kissed skin/So hot/We'll melt your popsicle" are the remainder of the lyrics from Katy Perry's song, "California Gurls." The song also featured California rapper Snoop Dogg.
"Deuces" was a hit that many thought Brown wrote about his troubled relationship with Rihanna. On the track, he sings alongside fellow singers/rappers Tyga and Kevin McCall. "Deuces" was featured both on a collaborative project with Tyga and on Brown's own album.
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"So raise your glass if you are wrong/In all the right ways," Pink sang on the song, "Raise Your Glass." This song was an interesting one for Pink since it was part of a decade look-back album she called, "Greatest Hits... So Far!!!"
"Stuck Like Glue" was a peppy pop song by country duo Sugarland. In the song, they sing, "There you go making my heart beat again/Heart beat again, heart beat again.There you go making me feel like a kid/Won't you do it and do it one time."
T. Swift sang, "Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water?" in the song "Mine," from her "Speak Now" album. The rest of this verse goes, "You put your arm around me for the first time./You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter./You are the best thing that's ever been mine."
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Rihanna and Drake worked together on her "Loud" song, "What's My Name?" The chorus, repetitive in nature, is also straight to the point: "Ooh na na, what's my name?/Ooh na na, what's my name?/Ooh na na, what's my name?/What's my name? What's my name?" Well, are you going to answer?
OK, we'll be the first to admit, we had no idea what "slizzard" even meant. So, we looked it up. Turns out, "getting slizzard" means that you're really, really drunk. You can thank the song, "Like a G6" by Far East Movement for that gem.
Trey Songz is a smooth talker in "Say Aah": "What you think about a convo'/And if you like it baby we could take it to the condo/And if you like the condo/We could move the party to the bedroom." And, that's as PG-13 as we're going to get!
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Well, that's depressing! Paramore sang this quasi-sad/quasi-love song in 2010, an inclusion on the group's "Brand New Eyes" album. It would be the band's most successful tune until replaced by "Ain't It Fun" a few years later.
"My chick bad/My chick hood," is the start of the song that paired Ludacris and Nicki Minaj in 2010. Ludacris and Minaj even teamed up to co-write the song, which appeared on his "Battle of the Sexes" album.
Usher's a sneaky one, checking out his lady while she's putting her heels on. The song, "There Goes My Baby," is a love song of sorts to Usher's boo: "You don't know how good it/Feels to call you my girl/There goes my baby."
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Carrie Underwood's song, "Undo It," was part of her third album, titled, "Play On." The missing lyrics here are actually a part of the song's title, which the singer elaborates on a bit when she croons, "I wanna un un un un undo it."
Boy, Kanye, we've come a long way with you, haven't we? Now doing a "Sunday service" with preacher Joel Osteen, the rapper used to sing things like, "Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it/I guess every superhero need his theme music ... No one man should have all that power."
"All the right friends, in all the right places/So yeah we're going down/We got all the right moves in all the right places/So yeah we're going down" is the chorus from the OneRepublic hit that was part of the group's "Waking Up" album.
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Neon Trees' "Animal" was released in 2010, the first single from their "Habits" album. A series of late-night talk show performances helped to increase the song's — and the group's — popularity.
"Misery" was released by Maroon 5 in 2010 as part of the group's "Hands All Over" album. In the song, the band sings, "And I wrote two hundred letters/I will never send." That's a lot of letters!
Of course you hoped "nobody looked" when you're getting a kiss under the bleachers! That's why you were under the bleachers ... duh. "My First Kiss" was a release from 3OH!3 that also featured Kesha.
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Lady Antebellum's feel-good tune, "American Honey," was released in early 2010. The song details an adult thinking back on a childhood: "Steady as a preacher/Free as a weed/Couldn't wait to get goin'/But wasn't quite ready to leave/So innocent, pure and sweet/American honey."
"Uh, uh, yo, he the type to pop tags and be cockin' the brim/Might breeze through The Ave, might stop at the gym." Those are lines from Nicki Minaj's "Your Love," from the superstar's first album, "Pink Friday."