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From My Memory Box: The Day I Wrote a Song (With My School Mates)
This post is part of From My Memory Box — a series where I open the lid on the personal memories that shaped who I am today. The little things that still glow softly in my heart. The Memory I can still picture it — that jumble of lined paper, blunt pencils, and big ideas. Read more
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🎞️ The VHS That Defined My Childhood: My Best Friends
One chunky yellow cassette. A whole mixtape of cosy 90s telly. Instant comfort. Before streaming, before DVDs, before I could even work a remote properly, there was one tape that ruled my world — a sunny yellow VHS called My Best Friends. A BBC/NCH (National Children’s Home) compilation from the early 90s, it felt like Read more
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💚 JLS: The Comeback That Actually Understood the Assignment
Nostalgia, harmonies, and the glow-up we deserved When most pop comebacks feel like opening a glittery time capsule only to find weird vibes and “we’ve gone experimental” energy, JLS did the impossible — they gave us the nostalgia and the glow-up. Back to that first beat It’s been years since those colour-coded hoodies ruled our Read more
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🎤 Daphne & Celeste Are Back?! The 18-Year Wait That Nobody Was Ready For
In which nostalgia pressed play… and immediately said “oh.” In the year 2000, Daphne & Celeste yelled “Ooh Stick You!” and told us we were all “U.G.L.Y.” and honestly? We ate it up with our Saturday-morning cereal. It was brat-pop, it was cheeky, it was glittery chaos — peak school-disco energy. Fast-forward eighteen years (yes, Read more
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Forgotten Dance Crazes We All Did (and Secretly Still Remember)
There was a time when no school disco, birthday party, or family wedding was safe. The DJ only had to press play on that beat, and suddenly the floor was full of kids (and a few enthusiastic aunties) busting out the exact same routine. Simpler times. Cheesy times. Legendary times. Let’s dust off a few Read more
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Goosebumps, Guitars, and Girlhood: My Body Remembers the Disney Channel Era
You know that moment when you’re just vibing, minding your business, and then an old Disney Channel bop hits different — and suddenly you’ve got goosebumps on your arms and tears threatening to form because WHY does this slap so hard? Yeah. That. I got goosebumps the other day from a song that used to Read more
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💿 LimeWire: The Glorious, Virus-Filled Chaos We Called Music
Before Spotify. Before YouTube. Before anyone paid for music unless it was on CD from Woolies… there was LimeWire. LimeWire wasn’t just a program. It was a lifestyle. A glitchy green portal where you could download your favourite songs… and also accidentally murder your computer. 🎧 The Vibe All you wanted was to download Year Read more
Asten Does Nostalgia 