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The 80s vs. the 90s!
By Max | April 5, 2008
So I was wondering, will people ever throw 90s parties? There’s no doubt been plenty of parties thrown themed on the 70s and the 80s. Well it’s now 2008, and the 90s have been out of style for a while now. Where are all the 90s parties?
I think it was 1994 when I started to realize how campy the 80s were. As far as decades go, the 80s were probably the second most ridiculous following the 70s. I doubt we’ll ever top disco in terms of ridiculousness. That realization came to me after only four years past the decade end. As far as style goes, I am certainly not one to realize that sort of thing early. I was probably still rocking out to Bon Jovi after Kurt Cobain had died. Surely others began to think the 80s were silly much earlier.
Yet here we are in 2008 and I haven’t heard anyone talk about the silly 90s. Maybe the 90s were just too normal. Thats good and bad I suppose. It’s good because the younger generation won’t make nearly as much fun of my 90s photos as I did for people in the 80s generation. The downside is that all my clothes and CDs will go to waste since there likely won’t be too many 90s parties anytime soon.
Clothes, music and movies define a decade. When you go to an 80s party, everyone is dressed like 1986 and Micheal Jackson is on the stereo while the Breakfast Club is being shown on TV. 70s parties wouldn’t be complete without bell bottoms and the BeeGees. What would a 90s party look like?
Flannel shirts, ripped jeans and Nirvana playing? Cargo pants, tight black pants and the Backstreet Boys/Spice Girls? I guess the 90s have some fun stuff going on. There definitely seems to be a difference between the early 90s and the late 90s.
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April 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I think that the problem is that the United States plutocracy has very nearly perfected its police state such that social movements underlying the fashion/pop-culture trends that you mentioned aren’t possible anymore. The best we can do is to say “bad” when we mean “good” or remember how the dow was going to 30,000.
Maybe we’ll look back and realize that we forgot to take in the view at the crest of our empire, as the neo-cons conspired to ban gambling and everything else fun while signing over the rights to our prosperity to Wall Street banks.
There was an author in the late 1980s–I think he/she was called Francis Fukuyama–who wrote about the end of history. Perhaps a complacent people, bound by debt to Wall Street, corraled into fad after fad by the corporate media and its monopoly on ideas, don’t really have anything left to give to the history books. America, like the British empire, could be reduced to a land mass with a banking center (and a few good rock bands, from time to time).