21 songs that represent high school cliques

Those that play sports in school don’t just play for fun. A lot of them live and breathe their respective sports and, because of that, have a competitiveness in them that drives them to never lose, which is why DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win” plays in their heads constantly.

Goths walked so that, two decades later, emo kids could run rampant, and while the big emo wave came and went in the early ‘00s, the internet has kept the style alive and well. Now, new generations can proclaim how not okay they are with My Chemical Romance’s “I’m Not Okay (I Promise).”

The dramatics of “We Are Young” by Fun featuring Janelle Monáe has theater kid energy written all over it.

ASB kids basically take the reins from the administrators and get the job done and are happy to. They live for the power that titles like “Class President” and “Treasurer” give them, so much so they are like lions on the prowl, waiting to pounce at any and every opportunity to make their presence in the school known much like Katy Perry in her 2013 single, “Roar.”

Sublime will forever match the laidback, nonchalant ways of the burnout.

The geeks, dorks, and nerds now know that while high school might not be the best time of their lives, geeks that came before them, like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, have proved that brains will get you very far in life. You just have to make it through, like Miley Cyrus sings about in “The Climb.”

Social media has made it so that the kids who go the distance aren’t staying in the shadows about it. They’re posting online so the world can give them their well-deserved applause.

The Shins bred a generation of hipsters with the Garden State soundtrack and still have a hold on the emerging indie kids out there.

It’d be nice to hear the kids who’d rather just hang by themselves all sing this Green Day tune together, but that would mean they have to socialize, and they aren’t about that life.

Much like Britney Spears, everyone wants a piece of the popular kids.

There is something about Panic! At The Disco and artistic kids that makes all the sense in the world.

MxPx asked, “Responsibility, what’s that?” To which skaters reply, “Just not getting caught skating where we shouldn’t be.”

What’s cheer without counting the steps of those intricate routines like Ciara once counted in her most popular song?

In the Midwest, the Future Farmers of America are a huge deal. Everywhere else, they’re just called the cowboy kids. Whatever they go by, just know they are well-represented by Lil Nas X and his “Old Town Road.”

Kids in the choir or glee club match the energy of theater kids but live their lives like Disney movies — always singing for no reason and feeling they are the greatest showman out there.

Paris Hilton was one of the OG influencers, so her millennial classic stands supreme for the others out there who feel their world has a constant Ring Light.

There is a whole genre of music based around video games that legit gamers would know, but let’s go with something a bit more mainstream: Jack Black’s “Peaches” from the game-turned-movie hit, The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Johnny Cash was country music's "rebel in Black" and is an iconic symbol of not caring what others think, say, or do.

Disney adults raise Disney teens, but no matter what age, all Disney people are living in a total fantasy. Perhaps not the one Mariah Carey sang of exactly, but still, a fantasy nonetheless.

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' hit is upbeat and keeps them on their feet.

Floaters are people who have no set destination. They are cool with almost everyone on campus and fit in wherever they land daily, so they feel Modest Mouse’s “Float On” in their veins.