Do people stay stuck in the era of their youth?

I agree with this. I was 18 in 1990, music from about 1988 - 1998 has an emotional pull that more modern stuff, even though I like it, just doesn't have for me.

I also agree that the 90s were a really optimistic time of growth, possibility and opportunity, it's almost painful to look back from today's gloomy perspective.

I thought wiggers was racist? 🙈

Yes i always miss the 90s when I was a child. Music, tv shows, good life.

I got a shock the other day when I realised my 3 year old may have an electronic register at school next year instead of the tick paper registers we had at school 😂

I try and fight it. I cringe when my DH goes on about there being ‘no good music nowadays’. Of course there is!

I was a teenager in the 80s but the 90s was ‘my’ era and I still love everything about it - I got very excited to see some of the fashion come back recently (even though I’m too old and fat to wear it any more) but I try to not be that cliche. I don’t want to be stuck in time.

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where I lived in the late 90s, it was the Adidas popper trousers with a Kappa puffer jacket. Lads were called Wiggers and girls Kappa Slappas.

Mid 00s, there were some lads who wore jeans low down to show their entire boxers. So tempted to hoist the jeans up

It seems from this that there’s rather a trend for nostalgia. No idea on sample size etc!

Music in the last 15 years has been rubbish. It’s forgettable. People will be listening to 80s music in 40 years time. Today’s music is not played 40 weeks later.

Kids tv was much better in the old days. There’s a need for a channel to show classic kids tv. Have that with drama, quiz shows and comedy. For example my friend’s DS much prefers the claymation Fireman Sam over the CGI. Plus it saves my friend money as bought cheap DVDs from charity shops and online.

Mid 90s was all about grunge where I was. Checked shirts and jeans and so on. Some people wearing hippy skirts with mirrors on. Then strappy dresses over T-shirts. Funny how it varies.

I like all sorts of stuff. Some 80s and 90s (I was 18 in 1998) but I also love to keep up with modern stuff - I have a dd aged 21 and I think that’s helped. Oddly enough my Ds aged 12 LOVES 80s music and when we get in the car he always wants Heart 80s radio on 😳😳 (my dd can’t stand it). It’s funny really because I’ve never really shown him 80s music but I think it’s definitely having a bit of a revival at the moment. I’ve been listening to Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo at the moment. It makes me feel young to listen to what some of the teenagers are listening to. I loved being young and I want to know what young people now are in to! 🤣

Yes you're absolutely right, the 80s for me the music the looks. I still dress 'funky' which is an 80s style, or I try to if I can fit into things but I think it probably makes me look like a throw back

I was born late 90's and I much prefer early 2000's or 80's music much more than today! I also dress differently to the style it is now. I just don't like it

We are in our 50s. And try and keep up to date…but hampered by the fact that Biffy Clyro first hit was in 2013! And I think of them as last week. Fuckers.

My BIL is 60 and hasn’t listened to anything newer than genesis ever….

I listen to Heart 70s and Gold UK in the car. Modern music is shite to dance to IMO. I’d love it if disco made a comeback.

A lot of young people like music from earlier times. All the innovation seems to have disappeared from music now.

My kids listen to music from my youth and recognise it was amazing. I missed where bands were not stamped on with cancel culture and all that BS.

Recently I’ve been looking back at the late 90s and wished I was still there and could relive some of that feeling I felt. We had it good then

Oh you youngsters
I was a teenager in the 1970s. Music from that era makes me reminisce, but I'm not stuck in a time warp. I listen to and enjoy music from all eras.

Most of the Christmas songs are from the 1970s and get regurgitated every single year. I can tell you that hearing the same set of songs every year for 50 years loses its novelty very quickly. I tend not to listen to the radio in December.

Pop stars from then had longevity. How many of today's pop stars will still be around in 40 or 50 years? Although, sadly, a lot of my pop heroes are dying off now.

I'd go back to the mid to late 90s to about the mid 2000s in a heartbeat if I could despite having grown up in the decade that taste forgot, the 1980s. What I miss most about 1994 to 2008 ish is the sense of hope which currently appears to be missing in action unless you're mega rich.

Hmm I think your rose tinted glasses have taken over slightly.
Do you really think the 90's look was cool? I remember a sea of teenagers all dressed in baggy Adidas t shirts and matching joggers with matching trainers of course.

I dare say I will be flamed for this but those were definitely the 'chav' years!
Heaven forbid you didn't/couldn't conform to the look...especially on non uniform day at school, you were an easy target without those stripes to blend into your surroundings.
I think it's great for kids now, they have so many different 'looks' to choose from, my teenagers hate athleisure (thank god!) and its great that they can choose an alternative without othering themselves!
In short th 90's were shite and I'm glad they've gone😆

I like to think of music of the '70s and '80s as my little indulgences. they take me away to a time I suppose that was more innocent and no responsibilities.

Of course I've kept up with everything modern along the way. I didn't stay stuck in the same hairstyle or makeup style.

That's really a pleasure so many of the seventies fashion and hairstyles have come back as I am enjoying wearing a few pieces.

I've noticed a few people I went to high school with have kept the same hairstyle and makeup style. The big hair!

I think it must have something to do with the time when your brain ‘re wires’ between about the ages of 14 and 25. The music from that era feels like the best music for ever more as it was there when you were forming life long connections in your brain.

I still prefer to listen to music from the 70s & 80s. I used to think I would keep up to date with music trends, but at some stage I decided that I was over it all and started getting even more into the music of my youth and "discovering" music I never listened to at the time. My late DF loved to sing and he always sang the music from the time when he was young. I sometimes think I still dress like a teenager rather than a "grown up", but that's because I still feel like one (even though the mirror shows my mid-60s self!).

Yes, I agree OP. I am very slightly younger than you and also love this era - music and fashion.

I think most people experience this.

I can remember people saying to me from around the he's of 12-19 "these are the best days of your life" and "youth is wasted on the young" etc and just rolled my eyes.

I get it now.

Those years are so important and I think most people feel a deep connection to the things that anchor them to those times.

I definitely still listen to a lot of the same music - I'm a bit of a rock chick at heart, and just can't find much "modern" stuff that I like as much as the classics!

According to my 18yo, I also dress like a teenager 🤣 But he bases that on his own dress sense (budding rock guitarist) as I was wearing a GnR T-shirt and black jeans when he said it!