This “what were you like in the 90’s” trend has made me realise one thing

[EdinaTheConfessor]

How much I hate Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.
I mean (controversial) I always have. But now I hate it even more.
There I said it.
Am I being unreasonable?

I love it, but I don’t like that rolling song that @Auroraloves mentioned either

I much prefer their song Slide, which you hardly ever hear in the UK. I lived in the states in the late 90s and they played it all the time. Far superior to Iris imo.

I thought it was just me!! It’s terrible, and the trend is terrible! It just reminds me I’m in mid life. Married with a child and a decent job but friendless and lonely turning 40 soon enough!

I could cry!

@Auroraloves Proud Mary! I cannot stand it but people go wild when it comes on 🙉

absolutely not! Another 90s lcon had it bang on… Miss Cher Horowitz..

I don't remember it first time round but I love it tbh

I like it! Sorry all 😜

Proud mary. By Tina Turner.
It seems to have seeped into everywhere and that bloody awful dance people do.

I hate it too, I don’t like his voice and never really did but also have struggled with self harm since my teens and the song was a bit of an anthem amongst cutters with the line ‘you bleed just to know you’re alive’ and now I find the song quite cringey from that perspective too.

Oh that's easy, Areosmith's DWTMAT is a billion times worse than Iris and nearly every other song from the last thirty years!

I love the song; haven't heard it for ages but I'd say it's one of my all-time faves! 😅

I like it.

I remember seeing them play it live at V festival many years ago in the rain, enjoying my breakfast of a warm can of special brew - great memories.
Wasn’t it the X factor that made it famous again? it’s a good song but always used over dreadful soppy videos nowadays

I don't know if I know it, and I cba putting on headphones to check it on YouTube etc.

Anything vaguely ballad like by heavy rock/metal acts is always dire.

I watch everything on mute so haven't noticed it.

However I have very much noticed Joshua Jackson and Christian Slater's "Dad what were you like in the 90s" posts and 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Yes, that is what it makes me think of - self harm. Do people really play it at weddings? The lyrics aren’t exactly romantic are they? I’m baffled.

I don’t hate it anywhere as much as I hate What’s Up by 4nonblonds. Vom.

Honourable mention to Blind Mellon’s No Rain

I'm going to see Good Goo Dolls tonight. I'm only going because my friend got free box tickets from work. It's the only one of their songs I know. Hopefully some of their others are a little more upbeat.

I don’t know them, or the song. Im just hoping it means it’s the 90s equivalent of ‘if you can remember the 60s you weren’t there’.

Haha, I can’t stand it either, never could. These vain “what were you like in the 90s” video’s don’t help! And City of Angels was deathly boring.

Hope the concert wasn’t too dire @DoubleDoubleDown, although going off their only hit any of us have heard of, it probably was dire.

Dreadful song. So many 90s songs way better than this.

Slide and Broadway are way better.

Iris isn't bad but it's just the same few bars on repeat all the way through.

Ah, so teen, so angsty!

even though I grew up in the 90s, I didn’t know the name of this god AWFUL song. That and Aerosmith. It does sound so 90s but there’s so much better music to choose from

I know that I shouldn’t like it because I certainly didn’t at the time and it’s not my kind of thing at all but it’s so redolent of the time and I’m utterly addicted to watching the videos. I miss the sense of possibility and excitement and it all stretching out ahead of me. For various reasons (not least the intervening 30 years!) my life doesn’t feel like that now.

i also miss being a size 6-8 and consequence free drinking, smoking and dancing until 5!

@Gingercar- haven't been yet, it's only 4pm here. Had a lovely trip on a seaplane to get here and the hospitality at the concert is free so even if the show is crap it's still a win