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I Hate Your 90s: N+1 Discussion Panel Ruins My Favorite Decade |
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Also, Foster, if you got caught/ejected for putting your own booze in a bar drink, I'm not sure that your alcoholic skillz are up to snuff.
Practice at home for best results.
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I doubt anyone would seriously argue that was a major -- perhaps the major -- feature of the decade in pop culture. I wonder what individual artifacts one would point to as illustrations. Some good discussions there, I'll bet.
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i wasn't there though.
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While I agree this one-upmanship is kind of fun, I don't think prescriptivism is the name of the game here. I suggest that inclusivity and descriptivism are probably better approaches to an amorphous, artificial topic like a decade.
So if Nirvana and Sassy are what you remember first from the Nineties, I'm interested enough to hear your explanation as to why. Same for Rodney King and welfare reform.
(Although descriptivism or no, the omission of the mainstreaming of hip-hop is pretty glaring, no doubt about that.)
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What are you complaining about, exactly?
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The 90's was already constantly mocking itself in real time, I don't know how this dumb panel gets to condescend (n+1!-duh) to an entire decade. Did anyone mention how electronic music became dominant in Europe? Or Britpop? It sounds like the people on the panel feel qualified to judge because they were alive then, or something. But what idiotic tropes they're discussing- mostly it seems, what was on US television then, that they remember.
And no 25 year-old should be discussing the 90's, sit down, son.
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Now the '80s? I'd love to examine why that decade was so weird. Not all that interested in the '90s.
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Also, Nirvana's music was mostly awful. Simple punk guitar riffs with punks' funny/fun/thoughtful lyrics substituted for complete gibberish. What bullshit.
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I'm kind of glad we've changed our minds on that.
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It's like they're giving the fashionistas a handjob with their doodoo holes. Only after a decade is condemned can it then be reintroduced as retro.
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I don't know; hell, I'm not into fashion at all, which to some people is ZOMGSHOCKING for a female, I'm sure. but it's just interesting. it's like the world has run out of ideas, so we have to rerun everything with a new hat a la Malibu Stacey instead.
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They didn't talk about email? That was the "killer app" of '90s, wasn't it? Actually, perhaps "killer app" sums up the '90s.
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also Fight Club
also the Matrix and American Beauty and hundred more cultural items. Don't make me whip out video games because I will.
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Birth of the Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Smash Bros and Mariokart series to start.
All of which have dominant places in the 00's marketplace.
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For perfect punctuation, on the other hand, I rely on sources that hire actual jerkoff copy editors.
Signed, Onetime Jerkoff Copy Editor
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