Why has there been no widespread 90's revival?

*tainted

My 9 year-old heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio when we were driving somewhere, pronounced it his new favorite song, has added about seven of their songs to his rolling Spotify playlist and insisted on us buying him a T-shirt last time we were at Target, so, anecdotally at least, I don't think they are going anywhere.

At what age are you planning to have the "Scratch Acid were better" talk

Think 12 maybe?

His tastes are all over the place, and while I play music around the house constantly, I don't really try to force anything on him and see what sticks. His favorite artists in the last few years have been Marshmello, Imagine Dragons, Kiss (which, fair play, I though Kiss was the bee's knees when I was 9 too), Metallica and, now, Nirvana.

Millennials are old enough to have their own The Big Chill now but I haven't seen such a thing, nor would I want to

What was Gen X’s Big Chill?

xpost - Bunch of people dancing around to "House of Jealous Lovers" while they wait for Doordash to show up?

I think we were so repulsed by the original Big Chill that we never wanted to have our own

What is the Gen-X Big Chill?

Oh, oops.

Ha, was just reading the other day about a 2014 film with Jason Ritter, Aubrey Plaza and Max Greenfield called About Alex that was apparently called Big Chill 2.0 in a lot of reviews. Can't say I've seen it to confirm.

In the UK, maybe it was ITV’s Cold Feet.

I am afraid the Gen-X The Big Chill might be Knocked Up.

I rewatched The Big Chill recently and noted that the 30-somethings in it were jumping around to vintage records that were mainly 15-20 yrs old at that point, so it would be very much like 30-somethings of today putting on "Toxic" and going nuts. But the film is really about loss of idealism, so you have to have had idealism to begin with.

The Big Chillax

The Gen X Big Chill was Greenberg, maybe?

I don't even know what anybody's Big Chill is. What is this thing that is purportedly a behemoth of culture that everything should be measured against?

Ha ha, you're right - it is odd. I'm all about Peter's Friends.

Anyway, coming back to my earlier point about people stopping thinking in terms of decades once they're not readily nameable, here's the ngram of relative usage of the word decade

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=decade&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true

https://i.imgur.com/489GLOh.png

Wait, it was Garden State, wasn't it?

I am afraid the Gen-X The Big Chill might be Knocked Up

yeah I feel the Gen-X version would have to be a piss-take of some kind perhaps starring Will Ferrell, but it's too late for one now

Reality Bites

I haven't seen either, but I think the protagonists of Garden State and Reality Bites were too recently out of college. The Big Chill was about 30-somethings.

That's true, I was just thinking more about the reliance on the soundtrack and how that had more of a cultural impact than the film itself.

If anyone needs help in achieving the look, here's a guide:

https://www.glamour.com/story/how-to-dress-90s

So that chart upthread would indicate that generalizing about how people of previous eras contextualized decades is itself a stereotypically '80s/'90s thing to do

Reality Bites

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This and Singles were my first two thoughts, but the characters in those are really post-college 20-somethings, not 30-somethings starting to wrestle with middle age.

Those are Gen-X St. Elmo's Fire's not The Big Chill's

St. Elmo's Fire is kind of more Gen X or extreeeeemely late boomer. There's sort of an internal division within Gen X imo, like people who were out of college by the end of the 80s vs people in college in the early/mid 90s

the last 20 or so posts are incomprehensible

There's definitely a small unnamed generation between boomers and Gen X... like people born in the early Sixties can't qualify as boomers but are a little early to fit in as officially Gen X.

Nah, they're boomers.

Though some disagree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

That’s like the Judd Nelson cohort. Recall that in the same year (1985) he played a 17-year-old in The Breakfast Club and a college graduate in St. Elmo’s Fire

I decree it is Generation Judd

Judge Reinhold is only two years older than Judd Nelson

Generation Kamala

Vince Neil was born in '61, he's right in there as well. No one can claim he's a boomer.

Let's ask a Gen Zer.

ILX Gen Zers, come out, come out wherever you are.

forget the boomers, let's ask the Loomers

What are the big 90s songs that have been used in national commercials? Genuine question, I watch few commercials these days.

AD WARS - tag team's "whoomp there it is" vs. pet shop boys' "opportunities"

can't wait for 00s revivalism, which leads to sequels to Hitch, You, Me, and Dupree, and everybody forms a garage rock band

Evan Su55er and Van R0bicheaux's 2016 script for Wedding Crashers 2 has been revived to potentially shoot in Puerto Rico in August

If you were born in 85, Daniel, it's worth saying that 80s nostalgia started even longer ago than you might think – I remember a student disco night called Club Tropicana in 1992.

There was a three-story collared-shirt nightclub in downtown Sydney called Club Retro playing 80s music by 1992

Linda Lindas link
https://variety-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/variety.com/2021/music/news/linda-lindas-racist-sexist-boy-lapl-1234978285/amp/?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHKAFQArABIA%3D%3D#aoh=16232459270401&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2021%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Flinda-lindas-racist-sexist-boy-lapl-1234978285%2F

hey I can think of one aspect of the 90s that should be revived

The oldies station here in the Bay Area used to play 50's, 60's and 70's hits but switched to "all eighties, all the time" a couple years back... feels like classic rock is sliding back towards Perry Como and Bing Crosby territory

I live in one of the hipper neighborhoods of Chicago and can confirm that I see plenty of folks in their 20s wearing 90s fashions. There’s a whole “vintage” shop called Kokorokoko that sells 90s clothes, though it all looks ghastly to me—are these kids wearing Joe Camel shirts out of irony, or do they genuinely find this stuff aesthetically pleasing? Beats me.

It’s progressing, too—saw a Facebook invite online for a bar holding an early 2000s night.

omg I forgot about that store, it is an amazing headfuck of a place

jfc, $108 for the NIN tour shirt I outgrew and gave away 15 years ago

$178 for a "vintage" Dale Earnhardt Jr shirt, but be quick, "Only 1 available and it's in 2 people's carts"

I feel like dance music is in constant mini-cycles of 90s revivalism.

What is some contemporary music with 90s house piano? Because I love that sound.

more balaeric than italo but Murphy's Law (Cosmodelica Remix)

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdeqJ414/