Oh this is an extremely easy one for me. If you were a young kid in the late 90s/early oughts every mom in the universe listened to the worst genre of all time, something I could only describe as Dentist Office Waiting Room Soft Rock Momcore. Every time you got into a bubblegum and soda stain smelling minivan of your friends parents the genre would be omnipresent. 4 Non Blondes, The Cardigans, Semisonic, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, etc. Just the most bloodless soulless neoliberalism-as-culture dreck imaginable blaring forth in an endless cacophony of suburbcore. It was the music genre for proto-Karens who were convinced that Joe Lieberman was saving their kids from becoming serial killers on behalf of Id software and that Oprah was their savior.
The worst offender not just in lameness but in ubiquity on radio stations was Natalie Imbruglia's single hit "Torn". If you so much as entered a mom-car at any point in the day in the y2k era you would be guaranteed to hear this song at least twice. It played on an hourly basis and it was fucking awful. To this day it is and probably forever will remain my most hated song of all time. It plays on loop in the deepest pits of hell.
If you want to know why there was so much super cringe edge in that era (that stuff was also terrible of course) it was in reaction to shit like this. Momcore drug the whole world down, even those rebelling against it. Forget the claims of nostalgic selective memories, this was the true culture of the post-Nirvana 90s.
