"I Don't Wanna Wait for Our Lives to Be Over!"ĭawson's Creek reached its peak years in the early 2000s on television. Basically any couple where one or more players had a part in Cruel Intentions was magical back in the day. were among the cutest celeb couples of the decade we all just loved their three part names combined! These were also the golden years of Jennifer and Brad soon to be swallowed up by the combo-celeb couple name games that "Bennifer" yielded. Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prinze Jr. Then there were the original Pink fans you never wanted to get in an argument with them. For some of us, the loyalties shifted, but for others they remained true to their original pop songstress. Then Britney did her snake charming routine and Xtina got "Dirrty" and we didn't know what to think. Bush or Al Gore won the presidency, but are you a Britney or Christina fan? In one corner, we had the Britney inspired school girls and, in the other, the Christina genies in the bottle, waiting to get rubbed the right way. It was the single biggest argument of the day. "America is open for business." "I love NYFD." "Support our troops." Because nothing says "the terrorists won't defeat us" like a bumper sticker or a t-shirt slogan. To me the entire thing just seemed like a scheme to charge people ten dollars for bottled water, but maybe I'll like it the second time around! Luckily for me, I saved all three of the pieces of raver "candy" jewelry I ever owned and I'm sure I could get a pair of those hand-sewn muppet fur pants I remember everyone wearing at the warehouse parties.
Admit it, you'll gladly swing your hips to his songs at the inevitable Ricky night one day at the DNA Lounge.Īll my friends from my Bay Area childhood assure me that, by the time I saw the San Francisco/East Bay rave scene circa 2000, it was at its peak and simultaneous decline. And then, at the height of his popularity, he disappeared from the spotlight only to reemerge a decade later as a proud gay dad and advocate. Women wanted Ricky and boys started wearing Armani inspired hip-hugging slacks and three button shirts. "Livin' la Vida Loca's" title track along with "Shake Your Bon Bon" and "She Bangs" were among the biggest hits of the early part of the decade. Can Y2K panic theme parties be far away?Īlthough the one-time boy band member had been around for almost a decade when he burst into the mainstream in 1999-2000 with "Livin' La Vida Loca", the world suddenly took notice of the bon bon shaking star and his Latin flavored pop. Then Fox News came along and parts of America forgot that vow and duct taped themselves into their apartments in terror.
Remember Y2K shelters and their logical next use as Jodie Foster inspired panic rooms? When none of these things happened, we were all relieved that the Terminator: Rise of the Machines outcome we all predicted was silly and we vowed to never react hysterically to any half-baked news story again. What a way to start the decade with an "eh." We were all expecting the world to shut down, computers to turn against us and the clocks to cease ticking in an electronic meltdown at the stroke of 12:00 that New Year's Eve. Allow me to look ahead to some of the cultural phenomenon we'll shortly be looking back on. Bush (you know, that painter guy), Golden Age Britney Spears, tech vests, techno music, Ricky Martin's bon bon, color coded terror alerts, original HBO programming, going carb-free and of course, one Mr. These were the years that brought us President George W. I'm now excitedly planning ahead to early 2000s nostalgia. have caused a reexamination of the seminal albums of the era, Miley is borrowing every reference from the era available and even Alicia Silverstone is back in the news!īeen there, literally. In the past two years, fashion went grunge at Saint Laurent, Nick Teen started rerunning Clarissa Explains it All and Doug cartoons in a "The '90s Are All That" time block, twenty year anniversaries for Nirvana's In Utero, Hole's Live Through This, and Pearl Jam's Vs. Much of the last decade was spent looking back on the '80s with a weirdly optimistic view (because that's what nostalgia is, basically) and now it's the '90s turn. Does it ever feel like we're regurgitating our culture in shorter cycles to you? For a while, waves of retro and revival came in roughly forty year spans, then it shrank to thirty, now here we are at roughly twenty year nostalgia periods.
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