Thursday, October 23, 2003
Get your '90s nostalgia here
So many people here in our little blogging community have expressed support for my idea for an I Love the '90s special that it got me thinking. Why don't we all get together at some central location (CoMo, perhaps? We could visit The District!) and film our own version of I Love the '90s, with us as commentators? Maybe we could even get Hal Sparks and Michael Ian Black to pitch in because, as Lyndsay has pointed out, they really were the best ones on the original VH1 show. Then we could send our tape to VH1 and see if they'll play it. And then we'd all be famous! OK, not really that famous. But we'd be at least as famous as Hal Sparks and Michael Ian Black, and that's good enough for me.
So here are my contributions to the project:
Remember back in the '90s when...
-No Doubt was considered "ska." And so were a bunch of other bands, like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who, one can only assume, have since fallen off the face of the earth.
-The biggest political ordeal our country was facing involved a cigar and a stain on a GAP dress.
-Reality TV was a shocking phenomenon restricted only to MTV.
-People only cared about Gwyneth Paltrow because of who she was dating.
-People only cared about Jennifer Aniston because she was on a hit TV show.
-Brenda, Kelly and Dylan were TV's most-talked-about love triangle.
-Hypercolor shirts gave everyone an excuse to touch the person they had a crush on.
-Winona Ryder was the good girl who dated bad boys instead of the bad girl who stole things from Saks.
-Shania Twain was considered a pioneer in the whole country/pop crossover phenomenon.
-Britney Spears was a Mouseketeer...not to mention an A cup.
-Until the infamous bathroom incident, people harbored this quaint little notion that George Michael was straight. Honestly, people! Did you just completely miss Wham!?
-The concept of Madonna and Michael Jackson spawning young was somewhat shocking.
-Alicia Silverstone and Claire Danes were the It Girls, while Jennifer Lopez was still just a Fly Girl.
So many people here in our little blogging community have expressed support for my idea for an I Love the '90s special that it got me thinking. Why don't we all get together at some central location (CoMo, perhaps? We could visit The District!) and film our own version of I Love the '90s, with us as commentators? Maybe we could even get Hal Sparks and Michael Ian Black to pitch in because, as Lyndsay has pointed out, they really were the best ones on the original VH1 show. Then we could send our tape to VH1 and see if they'll play it. And then we'd all be famous! OK, not really that famous. But we'd be at least as famous as Hal Sparks and Michael Ian Black, and that's good enough for me.
So here are my contributions to the project:
Remember back in the '90s when...
-No Doubt was considered "ska." And so were a bunch of other bands, like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who, one can only assume, have since fallen off the face of the earth.
-The biggest political ordeal our country was facing involved a cigar and a stain on a GAP dress.
-Reality TV was a shocking phenomenon restricted only to MTV.
-People only cared about Gwyneth Paltrow because of who she was dating.
-People only cared about Jennifer Aniston because she was on a hit TV show.
-Brenda, Kelly and Dylan were TV's most-talked-about love triangle.
-Hypercolor shirts gave everyone an excuse to touch the person they had a crush on.
-Winona Ryder was the good girl who dated bad boys instead of the bad girl who stole things from Saks.
-Shania Twain was considered a pioneer in the whole country/pop crossover phenomenon.
-Britney Spears was a Mouseketeer...not to mention an A cup.
-Until the infamous bathroom incident, people harbored this quaint little notion that George Michael was straight. Honestly, people! Did you just completely miss Wham!?
-The concept of Madonna and Michael Jackson spawning young was somewhat shocking.
-Alicia Silverstone and Claire Danes were the It Girls, while Jennifer Lopez was still just a Fly Girl.
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