Everclear, Lit and Eve 6. Live: on stage. At a casino. I just saw a billboard on the freeway for this. Does anyone remember those bands? You know I do. Although I was not very alert during the latter part of the 90s, I distinctly remembering each of those bands having their few moments of glory on the alternative rock airwaves.
This got me thinking. When are the 90s coming back? They should be here by now. This is the decade of 90120 and Saved By The Bell. Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls. Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Color Me Badd and Cross Colours. Ska and hacky sacks. Getting an email and being excited about it. Flannel and Doc Martens. Braveheart and Forrest Gump. Huge pants and floppy hair parted in the middle. Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson, Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson…. what’s not to like?
Let’s bring it back.
The 80s have been celebrated since at least the early 2000s and it’s time to shift our collective nostalgia to a different decade. A brand new decade from the past. The 90s. A time right before the world changed. The internet was an infant and World Trade Center was standing. Most of everyone born in the 90s are full grown adults or are getting there and have not experienced cultural nostalgia for a time period in which they were actually alive. The Millennials need to celebrate something else about themselves – their childhood era. It’s not fair to them that we’re still talking about Rubik’s Cubes and the Robot. It’s time to move on cooler 90s things, like Street Fighter II and the Macarena.
Even the 70s gets more love than the 90s, with all our eternal Star Wars veneration.
If you’re still not convinced that we need to start theming our parties around grunge and gangsta rap, I have but one word left to attempt to convince you to change your mind: Creed.
You’re welcome. I’ll see you in the mosh pit.
