10 Best Songs About Becoming An Adult

The music of Stevie Wonder always elicits a sense of excitement nowadays. For as much as the man's songs have been played into the ground, the cuts across albums like Talking Book and Music of My Mind have become some of the greatest compositions ever conceived in pop music. However, if you want to see where pop goes to grow up, you have to listen to Songs in the Key of Life.

While Wonder takes on everything from politics to religion on this album, "I Wish" is a wistful ode to Wonder's youth where everything seemed to be looking up. Set to one of the grooviest backbeats Wonder has ever laid down, the entire track feels like a time capsule of when you were still in your parents' house, where the only thing that really mattered was whether you would get the toy you wanted for Christmas.

From one verse to another, you learn more about Wonder's upbringing, from growing up with a stern mother to getting into occasional shenanigans at school, all while he pines for those days to "come back once more." It may be impossible to turn back the clock, but this little slice of life is Wonder painting his most innocent self portrait.