According to Rolling Stone Magazine, these are the Top 20 Graduation Songs of the past 25 years. Their definition of "gradation song" states, "Songs that have captured the proper feelings of pride, nostalgia, excitement and sadness that accompany such a rite of passage." What was your class' graduation song? Mine is below..
1. "The Climb", Miley Cyrus, 2009
2. "Photograph", Nickelback, 2005
3. "Moment 4 Life", Nicki Minaj, 2010
4. "Sing", My Chemical Romance, 2010
5. "All My Friends", LCD Soundsystem, 2007
6. "See You Again", Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, 2015
7. "How Far We've Come", Matchbox 20, 2007
8. "I Hope You Dance", Lee Ann Womack, 2000
9. "My Last Semester", The Wonder Years, 2010
10. "Am I Wrong", Nico & Vinz, 2013
11. "I Can", Nas, 2003
12. "Unwritten", Natasha Bedingfield, 2004
13. "Breakaway", Kelly Clarkson, 2004
14. "Graduation (Friends Forever)", Vitamin C, 2000
15. "Started from the Bottom", Drake, 2013
16. "I Will Remember You", Sarah McLachlan, 1995
17. "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)", Baz Luhrmann, 1998
18. "Firework", Katy Perry, 2010
19. "We Are Young", Fun featuring Janelle Monáe, 2011
20. "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", Green Day, 1997
I honestly have no clue if we had a "class of 2002 song" that defined us...but this is the one I remember making me cry at the end of my Senior year. "I'd like to think the best of me, is still hiding up my sleeve..". Turns out, it was. And it still is, 18 years later.
(it's also when I fell madly in love with John Mayer. This was his first single. I followed him on tour for the next two summers)