I-V-vi-IV. There's just something about these four chords that makes for a catchy tune in western pop music, transcending the boundaries of genre, and work in a song with any mood or tempo. This particular ordering of them, the "pop-punk progression" as The Other Wiki calls it, was spawned as a variant of the Doo Wop Progression, and has been particularly popular from the 1990s to the present day. It's become a recent theme of music oriented comedy to make fun of this trope. Related chord progressions: