if you’ve watched vh1 at all recently (even just flipped through during a commercial break) you know that a new decade has been condensed, documented and exalted (perhaps, in some cases, humiliated as well) for the entertainment archives. like, for sure, i love the 90’s premieres july 12th.
since i was born in 1984, i pay homage to saved by the bell and my little ponies, but i consider myself a child of the 90’s pop culture. my awareness of current music didn’t spark until the fourth grade when i voted for pearl jam in the class poll b/c i thought their name sounded the bandiest or something. 1994 was also the year we saw the sign and when, before everything was ‘sweet,’ it was ‘dude.’ pogs and the minibackpack followed in 1995.
other trends that i remember fondly:
– slap bracelets and their subsequent ban
– neon rainbow academic paraphenalia (remember the trapper keeper?) by lisa frank
– jellies sandals, their distinctive fragrance and the prints they left in the sand
– pogs on the blacktop at recess
– beanie baby collections
– over-alls and radically mismatched clothing
– later on, the reincarnation of bell-bottoms as flares
– aol chatrooms and saving ‘convos‘ for posterity (or blackmail)
– electronic pets on keychains (nostalgic? buy an autographed one on eBay.)
– the nokia 5000 series and all those x-press on covers
– a different shade of nail polish on every single finger
i wonder what we’ll be remembering in ten years (and what vh1 will title that series, since no one can figure out what to call this decade.) reality tv, camera/video cell phones, the friends finale, flip shorts and the atkin’s diet. blogging, perhaps?
quote of the day: “all right, stop, collaborate and listen” – vanilla ice
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