Yanbu 90’s were but a decade ago and anything (music films tv shows) that’s come out since 2000 is “new”
...my dd who turns 19 in less than 2 weeks is absolutely wrong that 90’s is retro and 80’s “ancient”...
Then I think back to my teens and me telling my mum films made before 1970 were old and fuddy and ones made before 1960 were “ancient” and I had to be seriously cajoled into watching (and I then loved them! Idiot!)
That my parents favourite music (Beatles, motown, psychedelia) was “naff” (then obliviously sang along to cover versions of songs from their era! Again idiot!)
“then I worked out that it was 12 years before she was born, 12 years before I was born it was 1967; if you're a kid the 90s were a long time ago.” I had a similar epiphany when having a somewhat heated discussion with dd that no, the fault in our stars is NOT the best “weepy” movie ever made not even close, I recommended some others which to be fair were quite old (50’s/60’s) but then I suggested a few 90’s ones that to me were “new” when she pointed out they were older than her!
So then I thought back to mum bluntly reminded me of a VERY similar conversation I’d had with her, where I’d been trying to argue same re terms of endearment (37 years old!!) and she’d made me watch imitation of life! I was sure it’d be crap as it was “so old” (13 years older than me) but of course it wasn’t! I was also amazed that films about “social issues” were made “back then” to which mum was [hmmm] and pointedly asked me where exactly I thought the civil rights movement emerged from! Then made me watch blackboard jungle (which is pretty strong stuff considering when it was made)
“1990 is as far away from today as 2050” 😱 shut. Up! 😂
@Adafromyorkshire yes dd covered that and Chernobyl disaster in history - all wrong in my opinion history isn’t what your parents lived through but your grandparents. Though I remember mine laughing at us learning about wwii and rationing in history. My mother was horrified we also covered 60’s events.
My mum had already had all 3 dc by the time she was the age I was when I had dd, this thought “hit” me when dd turned 18 (which felt really disconcerting to me) and I worked out that the “old woman” my mum was when I turned 18 was several years younger than I was at dd turning 18 (yes yes I know I had 18 years to realise but I was clearly deeply in denial!)
I rarely look in a mirror these days (I don’t wear make up and can do my hair easily without one) but on the odd occasion I do the shock is not that I look like mum but like HER mum!
Because in our hearts/heads we don’t age do we? We’re still the fun loving, lyric knowing teens we were then!