money 21 Of The Biggest Pop Culture Moments You Forgot Happened In 2021
If 2020 felt like a fever dream, then 2021 felt like a never-ending roller coaster ride. Concerts started happening again, awards shows were once again aired on TV, and we all tried to make sense of the chaotic pop culture events that refused to give us a moment of peace. Here are 21 major pop culture moments that did indeed take place in 2021.
1.Bernie Sanders showing up to the presidential inauguration wearing mittens and sitting far away from everyone else.
“This could’ve been an email”
2.Bridgerton sweeping everyone off their feet with its charm and scandal.
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And making us all giant simps for Regé-Jean Page.
3.The Bachelor casting its first Black lead and then facing a racism scandal when the winner ended up being a racist.
4.Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" slamming us all right in our feels.
It was played 24/7 on the radio for MONTHS and set the Spotify record at 15.17 million for most streams in a single day.
5.JoJo Siwa coming out in the cutest TikTok ever.
6.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving the throne, and then exposing the royal family to Oprah on CBS.
"Were you silent? Or were you silenced?"
7.J.Lo and Ben Affleck rekindling their romance (again) and just about breaking the internet.
Also, Ben carried a shit ton of Dunkin' Donuts into his apartment and, naturally, became a meme.
8.HBO hosting a Friends reunion and it featured the entire cast.
We found out that Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer had a crush on each other while filming.
9.Simone Biles dropping out of the Olympics and then spurring an entire cultural debate about mental health in athletics.
She also reminded everyone that gymnastics is an extremely dangerous sport.
10.A cargo ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal that gave Twitter jokes for days.
11.Addison Rae making her movie debut in He's All That, but all anyone could talk about was the green screen flop.
Addison "no hand" Rae.
12.Shawn Mendes saying, "It's giving Cher," about Camila Cabello's Met Gala look, and the phrase taking a permanent place in our vocabulary.
13.Charli and Dixie D'Amelio trying to be the Kardashians with their own reality show.
Both sisters opened up on the show about the severe mental health issues they've faced since their rise to fame.
14.Rihanna causing mass hysteria by dating A$AP Rocky.
Technically, it's rumored the two have been dating since December 2020, but around May they really began to solidify their romance with public acknowledgments.
15.Squid Game becoming the number-one Netflix show in the world, beating out previous shows by a landslide.
It also spurred a cultural debate about the popularity of Korean shows and movies in the US, an obsession with lip dubbing/translations, and various social media trends.
16.Kim Kardashian wearing an all black outfit to the Met Gala
Kimberly, why.
17.Keke Palmer's Met Gala interview with Megan Thee Stallion that became a viral TikTok sound almost overnight.
18.Taylor Swift releasing Red (Taylor's Version) and turning the entire internet against Jake Gyllenhaal.
19.Britney Spears being FINALLY released from her conservatorship after a 13-year battle, multiple documentaries, and an entire #FreeBritney movement.
20.Adele releasing 30, her first album in five years.
21.And finally, Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian breaking the internet with a photo of them holding hands.
