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If there was a 90s retro aesthetic similar to the current 80s neon and synthwave like the 80s never were - what would it be like? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit; I'm not asking what the 90s were like because I was there. I'm thinking what the pastiche of the 90s would be like should it have a revival like the 80s one that is nothing like the real 1980s by young people that presumably only have vague ideas from magazines and music and movies to go by. Like for example if it takes off from grunge but not like it was then but like it is idealised by kids today, what would it be like? What else was a 90s thing? Boy bands and indie pop mixed together on MTV? Hardcore techno and jungle/dnb with it's own analogue distribution channels by mail, flyers, mixtapes? Last generation of B-movies with practical effects shot on film before that part of the industry degraded into C-tier on digital with terrible CGI in the 00s? Mainstream pop culture, whatever that was? Television and radio, magazines and records before the internet took off? How would any or all of that be reimagined by people that didn't live it back then? I had no interest then nor do I have today for fashion magazines so if somebody knows I'd love to hear your twist on the topic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on a couple things. 90's then or what we think of the 90's now?

Also, first half or second half. Because basically, the internet. The internet really wasn't a thing in peoples homes for the first half of the 90's. That became a thing starting around 95, and became pretty much ubiquitous by the year 2000.

The early 90's were basically the 80s. The later half was like, grunge, pop-punk, early internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not how it was or how we remember it. The nineties idealised and reimagined according to what it should be like to be considered cool and interesting today, presumably by people that are too young to have lived through the doc martens and jeans and cigarette smoke that it really was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

One thing I've noticed about current media portrayals of the 90s is they're all wearing crop tops and high waisted jeans, which are in style now but weren't back then. Baggy jeans, sure, but the high waist was an 80s thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Hmm. I shall ideate on this to the mallwave album 19999 by the artist Windows96

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, cigarettes were on the decline by then. More of a 1980s thing.

kagis

Yeah.

http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/20385.jpeg

And that's absolute numbers falling, not percentage of the population -- the population was growing while absolute numbers were falling.

EDIT: In the US. But, well, I'm assuming that this is in the context of the US, as I expect that 1990s art motifs in, say, North Korea, are gonna be wildly different; it's a culturally-dependent question.