My musical influence

Having moved to Japan at 13 years old and coming back to the United States at 16 meant that I missed a lot of the current music. To this day people still are amazed that I haven't heard of some the big songs/artists of those years. This is what I was influenced by (and sang every time I went to karaoke) as a teenager:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwacTv-6DK4

the scariest part is that I still remember a lot of the words! yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!