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I was looking through the new Vanity Fair tonight, and the article on "tweens" had birthdates. It was then that it dawned on me that today's teens were born in 1990.

Jesus, that means there is a generation of music listeners who think of the '90-'95 era the same way I think of '80-'85. That makes me feel so old beyond my years...

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus Christ you're old.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(kidding)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i probably view 90-95 similarly to 80-85 now actually. with mild amusement and minimal nostalgia

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Nostalgia is the new black.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

and black is the new bling

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm nostalgic for conversations that I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back at it in my memory and I didn't have a good time."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm more offended that someone has decided to STEAL the term "tween" -- a perfectly unambiguous word that describes the process of implementing animation between two time points in a digital creation context -- for such asinane, disposable "fashion" purposes.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 July 2003 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that usage has been around since the mid-90s, at least. About the time people started talking up "Gen Y."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 3 July 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back at it in my memory and I didn't have a good time."

Story of my life.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 July 2003 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Just the idea of kids growing up in the 90s is scary. Here's one: what do you think was the dominant, decade-defining musical movement of the 90s? (and pleeeeeeease don't say "ska")

― Chesnick, Thursday, 3 July 2003 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

DJing
teen pop
'electronica' hehe

― ron (ron), Thursday, 3 July 2003 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

ska

― David Allen, Thursday, 3 July 2003 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

September, 1985:
"We're the Tweenies, very new,
Show us what the Brownies do."

― Poppy (poppy), Thursday, 3 July 2003 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Just the idea of kids growing up in the 90s is scary. Here's one: what do you think was the dominant, decade-defining musical movement of the 90s?

Electronic dance music, obviously. Whether you like it or not, that's what people are going remember when they look back to the nineties. (This applies to Europe, of course, the US might be a different case.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 3 July 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen ska invoked a few times lately (including by me) - lo and behold, one of the cover stories in Alternative Press this month is "the state of ska" (or something like that, it was wrapped in plastic).

IT'S BACK.

In the US, was there a decade-defining movement? Electronica didn't catch on, and people generally want to forget mainstream rock acts attempting it (U2, Bush, REM). Grunge hasn't aged well at all. Hip-hop has a chance, but it wasn't the reigning champ for much of the decade. Rap-metal/Numetal came too late.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Green Day/Offspring.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

in the UK, despite the huge force that was rave, club culture and superstar DJs, it often seems that Britpop and grunge are still regarded as the 'quickest' associations with music in the 90s

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

quickest as in spring to mind first for much of the media, and subsequently the general public

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

(DB, I am completely stealing "asinane" from you.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 July 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

In the US, was there a decade-defining movement?

No.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Somewhere, I've got a rant/essay about how Full House defines the Tween Generation, even aside from the Olson Twin Factor (T/S: M-K or Ashley? A: Ashley is hotter, but she's also stuck-up. M-K has a touch of humility, and to me, that's sexy in a 15 yr old) (note: the preceding parenthetical thought was entirely fictitious, I find the idea of sexualizing children repugnant)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say Britpop and Grunge.
80s scene - 90's equivalent

Punk/Two Tone = Rave
Synthpop = Britpop
Indie = HipHop
Stock Aitken Waterman = Girl/Boy Bands

this is in chronological and popularity terms btw.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

errr.....

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The music I remember most from 80-85 is the Hokey-Pokey.

The 90s moment I'll remember most is Rancid running onstage at the Capitol Ballroom.

I need to stop talking to old people. It makes them feel old, apparently.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Thursday is the new Wednesday.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

actually - fuck that last thing i wrote. It was bullshit.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what's worse-- that you made ANOTHER lame "Man I wanna have sex with The Olsen Twins joke, or the fact that you couldn't even do it right.

― David Allen, Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

dang!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I'd say the U.S. didn't have a defining music movement for the 90s. American music sucked in the 90s. Which makes me think of another question: what was the worst musical movement of the 90s?

― Chesnick, Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

precognitive electroclash.

oh wait...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally I'd say any and every movement made by Kid Rock, including blinking, walking, breathing...

― Chesnick, Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

...bowel

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

the macarena

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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