In the midst of the new year, 2025 is predicted as the new 2015 according to many Gen Z influencers and posts on TikTok. With the revival of the blue Snapchat filter, Tumblr, EOS lip balm, Starbucks, Kylie Jenner obsessions, James Charles sister squad, Los Angeles drives through the palm trees and overall living your youth full, 2015 is so back.
“King Kylie is coming back and I’m going to dye my hair blue now,” senior Rebecca Roff said. “2015 is unicorns, rainbows and Dua Lipa.”
2015 was full of artists like Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. Incredibly popular songs from that year include “Let Me Love You” by Justin Bieber, “Good Feeling” by Flo Rida and “Shower” by Becky G.
“White girl music has [come] back, but going into 2025 we are listening to 2015 bops,” senior Elizabeth Valdez said. “Also, rom-coms are back. We are romanticizing this year.”
But why 2015 specifically? Well, with the treacherous times society has had to go through in the past few years, whether that’s a worldwide pandemic, economic turmoils, uncertainty and now Los Angeles burning with fires, 2015 is the last year where Gen Z remembers any type of normalcy. In 2025, we are now rebuilding from our ashes into a year full of carefree you-only-live once-mindsets, like 2015.
“2015 was the last time people remember the world being normal,” senior Morgan Gates said. “Now that we’re coming out of a pandemic, people just want to go back to the last normal era, which was 2015.”
Major social media platforms and trends that were popular in 2015 include Wishbone, Snapchat filters like the flower crown and Instagram. Wishbone would allow users to choose decisions like Summer versus Winter or which aesthetic is cuter.
“I love Wishbone,” Bifano said. “I used the app every day back then.”
For seniors at Bridgeland, the idea of 2015 vibes are trickling throughout the student body’s minds.
“I think because [seniors] are hitting the year of graduation, it’s nostalgia,” senior Tierra Cullivan said. “It just brings us back in time to our childhood moments.”
In 2015, society had a mindset where your dreams could become your reality. Students should bring back having a youthful, positive mindset as this can make a positive life.
“The world was more vibrant back then,” Roff said. “People weren’t depressed and [it] makes me think of good times.”
2024 was a year where students worked on themselves, but 2025 is a year where they get to enjoy each moment of life no matter how small. Try to romanticize each opportunity and soak up all the good times of teen years that in a year or more, will be over. While students enter this new year, give yourself grace and soak up all the joy and 2015 romanticism.
