8 Songs Millennials Don’t Know Are Remakes
7. 1985 - Bowling For Soup
This track from a mid 00’s American band is best known for a song about the 80’s. 1985, a song about a woman relieving the good ‘ol days, "way before Nirvana, when music was played on MTV".
Millennials enjoyed the trip down memory lane, and is the only top 40 hit Bowling For Soup ever made – or rather, re-made.
Written by the band SR-71 on their Here We Go Again album, lead singer Mitch Allan was frustrated that no label was interested in his music, so he was thrilled when Bowling For Soup wanted to record this song.
"Every single person who told me the song would never work and this kind of music is finished - it made me realize those people are idiots." But not knowing SR-71 recorded this before BFS, does not make you an idiot.
When 1985 charted so well, Allan started writing songs for other artists like Tokio Hotel, Faith Hill and the Jonas Brothers, while Bowling For Soup is now nostalgic for 2005 when 1985 provided for their biggest hit.