God I miss the 90s

[menohnopausal]

That's all I have to say really. <wistful sigh>

Oh god me too! 💐

I especially love how little evidence there is of what we got up to, if you were there, you know 🤣😉

Agree with this. I was a teen and young adult. Loved it. People were much more present, for one.

Seriously?! 90's was the last time music came even close to anything groundbreaking. The Seattle movement (which admittedly started in the late 80s) served up something fresh and inspiring unlike the dirge that's followed from the Noughties onwards.

As another poster said, most of the good music these days is derivative of the 80s/90s innovation.

If grunge was not your thing, another poster mentioned Brit pop and we're still seeing the remnants of that with the buzz around the current Oasis tour.

Every decade has its terrible pop songs but we've not really heard anything novel for the last two decades in my opinion.

I think the skinny obsession was late 90s/ early 2000s. Early 90s the supermodels e.g Cindy Crawford were more toned and healthy looking though still v slim. When Kate Moss first came along everyone said she was too skinny. You can see in Friends how Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston become thinner over the seasons and I think even Victoria Beckham wasn’t as tiny as she later became when the spice girls started.

Yes the rise of the Super waifs...

Absolutely!

My 12 Yr old DD doesn't really listen to anything current. She loves Guns n Roses, Nirvana, Evanescence, Eminem and even ABBA.

I think Music was OK until the later 00s and 2010s.

I was in High School, 6th Form and Uni until 2006...it was a great time with a wide variety of music.

Chilli Peppers, Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys etc were all still about, you had The Libertines, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Killers etc, R&B, Rap & Garage was big and quite mainstream, we had Outkast, Black Eyed Peas, Pharrell then your bog standard Pop (Pink, Katy Perry, Boy and Girl Bands, ), solo artists/singer songwriters like Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones, Katie Melua, Nelly Furtado, the Beddingfields, David Gray, James Blunt etc, random easy listening and classical crossover (Buble, Jamie Cullum, Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra) etc, banging Club music (Cascade, Armand Van Helden, FatBoySlim, Daft Punk etc).

There was a HUGE variety.

Then it just all got a bit bland and acoustic. It's been utter shite since 2014 IMO (the early 2010s only redeemed by Mumford and the Lumineers, for me).

I might just be old but everyone sounds constipated or like they've had local anaesthetic at the dentist these days.

I miss being young but the ladette culture and disgusting sexism led by Chris Evans was truly horrible.
Funnily enough I am currently rewatching Teachers which was made in 2000 and the humour is almost all based on sexualising women and school girls, mocking disability and of course fattism.
Women’s rights had made strides of improvement since then but now it is being thrown away by trans hand maidens and those who determined call porn and prostitution “empowering” because of only fans etc.
Fatism is still the last truly acceptable prejudice and discrimination so very little has changed there. Maybe in another twenty years things might improve but I won’t hold my breath.

I remember a few years ago one of those programmes where a family recreate life in the past recreated a night out in Manchester in the 90s and getting a chip naan up Oxford Road. I remember that so well from student days and would give almost anything for a Time Machine to go back and do it one more time.

I wasn't even particularly young in the 90's, I turned 40 in 1997 but I loved the decade. There was a 60's vibe about it and the music was as good as anything in the 60's and 70's. I miss the pre mobile, pre technology and social media dominated society. I miss the buzzing shops and high street. I miss the spontaneity of going to gigs and parties, talking to strangers, Christmas works do's, proper sandwich shops and just having fun.

I turned 13 in January 1991 and i have such brilliant memories! No mobile phones, everything was cheap, clothes were crazy and I had very few worries. Good times.

Well I am one of those weird people who don't find ignorance and cruelty not to mention pedophilia funny. I believe there are quite a few of us about.
But you crack on.

One word sums up that era for me: hedonistic.

Yes, I never was interested in drugs but I really let my hair down. I do wonder about young people who now don’t gel that time, do they just go mad at middle age?

It was such an exciting time, yes we were exposed to a lot, very early, but it also just felt sort of safe and fun

Yes, on one hand I was exposed to crime, drugs, etc from an early age as my area was a bit rough but it just gave me street smarts really. You wouldn’t walk certain streets at night etc but I also feel I had a really innocent childhood. I played out on the road with other neighbours, etc…

@Nuggetnuggety Exactly, very independent and street smart

I agree. I have several characteristics which mark me out including a disability. I have zero issues with funny, well intentioned humour regarding those characteristics. Would be different obv if somebody screamed it while hitting me over the head or something. But taking offence at banter is just so thin skinned and has made the world such a boring place. I miss laughing. What’s even funny any more?

Fun fact! 😆

@CharBart you’re right re timings. I was scouted a few times but I was very young. By the time I was a few yrs older & could do it I was encouraged to lose some weight. I was a crap model though so no need 😆

The thing was the original supermodels they were older, taller, more athletic than Kate Moss. She was only 14 when she started & hit the big time pretty quickly.

I remember the 90s as pre-mortgage and post- mortgage. So pre-big responsibility and post big-responsibility. 😊

Some of the music was good (actually listened to Sunscreen in a fit of nostalgia recently, it was a holiday tune). Some not so much!

Someone mentioned bland music and this is where I rant about things changing & so much homogeneity now. So in the 90s/00s high street shops had their own distinctive handwriting with their own take on the trends; Topshop for your denim, trend led pieces, Miss Selfridge more feminine, boho, Oasis, more formal classic, Karen Millen, more sophisticated, clubby etc. Same for music, lots of different genres all popular. It then switched & high street shops all started to sell very similar versions of the same thing and everyone started dressing more similar. If you don’t want to wear the same as everyone else it’s quite hard unless you can spend more. Music now all sounds the same, songs will all have a electropop sound, then a 90s sample sound, currently it’s country pop. Rant over.

The 90s were fabulous! I was in my 20s - at uni and then living/working in London and it was the best decade of my life - for sure.

I was 18 in 1993, The 1990's were the best decade to become an adult in, there was so much to look forward to and everything seemed to be on the up.