Boy Band Seduction
I’m not done complaining about the mixed-up messaging we got about love in the 90s. I’ve already touched on the ...
Zoot Suits at Homecoming
By the second half of the 90s, the grunge era had all too quickly come to an end, and there ...
All That She Wants . . . Is Another 90s Birthday Party
I’m about to get really judgy. Sorry. I want to understand what has happened to birthdays. They used to be ...
Keyser Söze Is Coming for You
Recently, I was asked what my favorite movie was. I used to name “The Goonies,” the 1985 adventure movie about ...
Hey Ladieeeesss!
I don’t know, I just feel like there were some female musicians in the 90s that never really went anywhere ...
Proof of a 90s Origin
Who knows what that is? We do! Most all 90s teens had that series of screeches and beeps embedded in ...
Warning: Not a Primer for High School
Imagine the song “I’m so Excited” by the Pointer Sisters. Got the melody in your head? Now fill in the ...
My British Rock Band Summer
When I hear the opening lines to “Hello,” the first track off Oasis’s “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?,” I think ...
Too Tall for Delia*s
While sitting in a waiting room recently, I glanced at the woman to my left, noticed her knee-torn boyfriend jeans ...
The Undeniable Truth – or, “An Ode to the Compact Disc”
Let’s explore for a moment the pain of unwrapping a new CD: First, be sure the cashier removes the clunky, ...
Don’t Call Me A Millennial
I gotta interrupt the nostalgia for a brief interlude here to address something that’s been on my mind for far ...
The Never-ending Afterschool Special
Before you get excited, this post isn’t really about an Afterschool Special.[1] Although those had such mature content that I ...
I’d Go Back for Daria
Annoyingly, when I got to high school, people started asking me “What’s wrong?” practically every day. Apparently, I wore an ...
A Pepsi Kind of Decade
This ad is not the first thing that pops into my head when I think of Van Halen, but it’s ...
The Ballad That Still Breaks Me
“Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you . . . .” I’m sorry! I’msorryI’msorryI’msorry. I know ...
The Notes That Make Us Raw
Today I’m going to talk about how a certain sound – even just a chord – can evoke feelings of ...
If You Know Who You Are: My CK One Saga
In 1994, Calvin Klein came out with a fragrance called CK One. I still remember the commercial for it: a ...
What Tupac Taught Me About Boys
In the 90s, it was possible to encounter Tupac Shakur in a variety of ways. You could have been a ...
The “Rachel”
In the mid-90s, there was a haircut trend that should have come with a Public Service Announcement. Something like, “Most ...
