G101.3 | La la la, la-la, la-la-la

My freshman year of high school. My first Homecoming. I went a girl who was a friend. I was ready to party the night away. I was ready for them to play the dance song of the summer. Three hours of the hottest tracks of the year, and they wait to play it as students exit the Commons area. I had never heard of Kylie Minogue before her Fever album. I never knew she was an international hit even with her own 80s version of the catchy "Locomotion." But this hypnotic song remains one of my favorite of what I call the TRLra. She was hot, the song was hotter, and the video was the hottest.

Bad | Smooth Criminal

The killer music movie from Michael's Bad, which was a part of the short film Moonwalker. Here he pulls one of the illist moves ever - the gravity-defying lean. Alien Ant Farm had a hit with their rock cover during TRL-ra.