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Are you kidding me? 90s nostalgia is in full swing this year. Generally it takes 20-30 years for trends to come back around. Since 1993 was 20 years ago, it would make sense why 90s nostlagia is coming back. I've also noticed that a lot of the music this year has a very late 70s/early 80s feel to it, and 70s nostalgia was a big thing in the 90s. So no surprise there.
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To me, the 80s and 90s stand alongside each other like siblings. They look a lot alike, but they were very different too.
I guess so, I'd say the 90s were the time the dark side of the 80s came out. However 90s fashion and music seems to have more in common with the 60s and 70s than it does with the 80s. Shall I say nostalgiaception?
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I think that there when these threads pop-up there is too much attention to chronological dates and not enough about major cultural shifts. For example the "Roaring 20's" was conveniently a chronological period between the end of WWI and the start of the Great Depression. When we refer to the 50's culturally we are really referring to a ear that culturally took place between the end of WWII and the beginning of the Civil Rights, Vietnam era. Personally, as having lived through the all of the 60's, 70's 80's 90's and obviously today, I haven't seen any dramatic cultural shifts from the 90's to date other than the Internet, the rise of the Republican Right and the current economic crisis. If I were to be nostalgic about the 90's it would be that the economy was doing quite well and I could think about things like retirement, other than that, I don't miss not having mobile phones or the internet.
Why aren't the 90's popular as a nostalgia decade? In theory, the decade is long enough ago that it should evoke nostalgia. Y2K was almost 13 years ago and 1990 started nearly a quarter of a century ago. The early 90's is as close to the hippie era as it is to the early 10's in time and hippies were definitely thought of as being of the distant nostalgic past by the time The Wonder Years aired (1988-1993). Even 1995 is halfway back to 1978 which was definitely, I distinctly remember, very much classic nostalgia in the mid 90's.
It seems like the only people who are interested in 90's nostalgia are people who were very young children in that decade, or teenagers who can barely remember the 90's at all. I almost never hear anyone born before 1985 say anything good about the 90's seriously. It's almost all focused on kiddie stuff from the 90's too, like the Disney Renaissance and Nickelodeon, which admittedly were both awesome and nostalgia-worthy.
I hardly ever hear of say, modern day 35 year olds who are nostalgic for the grunge music of their teens, or lament that classic films such as Jurassic Park and Men In Black are no longer made. 80's nostalgia is still king and I can't imagine people ever taking 90's nostalgia seriously. The thing is 80's nostalgia is getting old and 1985 is almost 30 years ago and even 40 year olds today were very young in the early 80's. So are we just going to be nostalgic about nothing by the time 2030 rolls around and the 80's is literally the age of old timers?
Why? Is 2012 just too damn similar to 1995 or something? Was the 90's unoriginal/forgettable pop culturally?
The 90s just wasn't that big of a deal. If you liked in the eighties and got through that decade (crack cocaine, high murder count, etc.) the nineties wasn't anything you were impressed with.
Entertainment sucked. You had CGI etc you didn't have in the eighties but the writing wasn't as good. Plus the nineties was a dark period. Only good thing about the nineties is that we came out of recession, but that led to a lot of debt creation in the 00s, and led to the housing crisis. Good time to be Black though, cities like New York and Chicago were gritty, pre-gentrification. Even DC was dangerous back then.
I just wasn't impressed with the nineties. Sure you had Biggie and Pac but they weren't Michael Jackson, Madonna, or Lionel Richie, IMHO. Nirvana was cool while it lasted.
The 90s was HUGE for me... a decade of firsts... first love, first kiss, first car, High School graduation, first trip to a foreign country, marriage, first kid, first place of my own, ect ect.
Unless you are incredibly shallow and lifeless, you don't base your memories of a time on pop culture/entertainment. While they may help recall memories the time, they AREN'T the time. Hell, aside from the music I hardly even paid attention to pop culture of the time... I was paying attention to the real world around me.
People remember times like the 60's and 70's so fondly these days because that was a certain generation's coming of age decade(s) and they are of the age when nostalgia runs rampant. Even the 80's teens are getting old enough to feel it.
My generation on the other hand is in a point in lives where there is little time to think about the past... the present with jobs, trying to stay financially stable, raising kids, ect is all-consuming. Besides that, there just weren't as many 90s teens as there were in other generations.
Still, give it another decade or two... 90's nostalgia will have it's time to shine.
Yeah, I don't see the appeal in stuff like Party of Five. The mid-90's got bored with themselves.I could not believe the change at the time. If you look at New Kids on the Block stuff from 1990 and compare it to the Backstreet Boys CDs from 1996, you would swear they are from two different eras. '90 and '96 are only six years apart. Most items from 1990-1993 have that leftover 70's simplicity feel to them. 1993-1996 was just meh. It was very forgettable. 1996-1999 was so close to the 00's, in terms of fonts, that you can group them together. The real transition occurred from '93 until 1996/97.
True.
Early 90s music sounded extremely different to those of mid 90s (6 years later). Early 90s had a New Jack Swing vibe to them, which rather sounded campy and dated. 1996 had a more 'modern' electro beat with funk influence - Maroon 5 kinda does this today, so it's not too 'dated' to our ears.
But then again, if you listen to the songs of the year 2000 (Oops I Did It Again and NSYNC's Bye Bye Bye), and compare them to the 2006 songs like Chasing Cars (by Snow Patrol) and SOS (by Rihanna) you'd even say here that these two sets could be from different era, when in fact they're only six years apart.
2008-9 music were very electropop in sounding with heavy techno synths. These beats suddenly became redundant in 2010 when music started to sound more house and disco in nature (thanks to David Guetta, Aviici and Calvin Harris). I remember thinking how dated and out of fashion were Lady Gaga's Just Dance and Poker Face songs in 2011 (just 2-3 years later).
Music seems to change drastically as a new decade begins. Although the change took longer in the 90s, but was rather drastic in 1996 (thanks to BSB and Nsync).
Don't think the nostalgia bug hits most folks until they are senior citizens. They look back and see an idyllic past mostly seen through rose colored glasses.
There seems to be a lot of 90's nostalgia in pop culture, with shows like ABC's Fresh Off the Boat which takes place in 1995 and VH1's Hindsight which also takes place in 1995. There was also a short lived show on Fox called Surviving Jack that took place in 1991. I think it's true that it takes about 20 years for decade nostalgia to set in, hence 50's nostalgia with Happy Days in the 70's, 60's nostalgia with The Wonder Years in the 80's and 70's nostalgia with That 70's Show in the 90's. Hell in 5 or more years 2000's nostalgia will probably start setting in, maybe even later this decade.
I don't get the connection between "The X Files," one of the best TV series of it's time -- or any other time -- and "Licing Single." I remember the name of that show, but never watched it.
the rest of your post should be been preceeded by "Back in my day..." and went from there.
If not for the success of "Twin Peaks" and "The Golden Girls", "The X-Files" and "Living Single" would not have aired on any channel.
Originality was dead in the 1990s. For every incredibly popular TV show of the 90s, there were millions of rip-offs and copycat shows.
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