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This is the La La Land era… so interesting that the bling era nostalgia began while we were all quarantining during a pandemic just before an economic disaster
3:33 just right of center in this shot is a genuine "Peaky blinder" with flat cap at an angle to show off his quiff. Great little history lesson thanks. I've actually recently made the shift from tie-dye and bright colors to more restrained Edwardian-influenced clothing but I'm by no means adverse to adding a bright paisley Ascot cravat or a gaudy tie to me outfit!
As I grew up in the late 90s early 2000s I remember all of this being popular. My favorite movies taking big inspirations was Disney movies like Pixel Perfect and Zinon space girl
I will say that technically the Y2K aesthetic started far earlier than the Y2K bug, that just was part of what helped provide its name. What really started it was electronic music and rave clubs in the early 90s that spread to other bits of pop culture from there. It's such a 90s-rooted aesthetic its crazy that people consider its to be a 2000s aesthetic, it's like saying the Memphis style is a 90s aesthetic despite being just like the Y2K aesthetic: being born early in the prior decade and essentially dying early in the next.
The best analysis on the topic I’ve seen so far! And I absolutely agree with the conclusion here - the year 2000 feeling can’t be replicated. People really were extremely optimistic about technology and everything related to the point of it being naive. I really like your assessment of this. It’s absolutely expert!
depends , not all communities are on board with that tho. tiktok is already merging all 00s into one group under y2k, y2k doesnt mean 2000 tho when you know the context
Low rise jeans ARE back, but not in the way they were in the 2000s. A lot of low rise stuff are either baggy or straight, not like the super skinny jeans that were popular back then.
My Super Sweet Sixteen that came out on MTV in 2008 was peak McBling. I was 16 in 2008 and had a sweet 16 with a limo and party at Dave & Busters. I got a limo because that bling lifestyle was a thing. I was born and raised in OC where the MTV show Laguna Beach is set. The Hills was on in 2008. So living in OC as a teen in 2008 meant you needed to participate in McBling to be cool, so a limo for your sweet 16 elevated your coolness factor.
The Y2K bug wasn't really as big of a threat as people made it out to be. A lot of it was news hysteria and government facilities running old IBM computers from the 1960s lol. Most businesses and all PC were not affected by this problem. When that code was originally written in the 1950s/60s they didn't think those machines would still be running by the New millennium really underestimating how bad the government is with updating infrastructure lol.
These styles are not easy to get confused. But I guess its easy for me to see the difference because I was an adult already at the time. For me, the 2000s had a 70s style vibe with bright vibrant colors mixed with black and chrome. The late 2000s were blingy and bedazzled. Even those awful "affliction shirts for guys 🤢
Jimi Hendrix was definitely the best dressed person of the 60s. There was a trend in the early 80s for wearing colourful gender bending clothes again with the new romantics movement in the UK (like the culture club, annie lennox and duran duran’s early years), which was really awesome, but unfortunately it didn’t last long.
I graduated High School in 1975. I remember the base uniform was faded flared jeans, Dingos(harness biker boots) or sneakers, wide belts w/ big buckles, and T shirts topped off with an open denim western shirt or a patterned shirt. The Ts could be plain white, solid colors, and/or classic graphics like your fav bands, or underground comics like Mr Natural/Keep on Trucking, etc. In the winter I wore a surplus Navy peacoat. Funny now that Im 66 yrs old and retired I dress pretty much the same. Jeans minus the extreme fading and flare, a more mid sized belt, and work boots or white sneakers.
Kpop groups like NewJeans, STAYC and XG are kinda revisiting the Y2k aesthetic right now though they add some modern twist to it. I think it's pretty cool.
Wowwww, hearing you talk about the fall of the y2k aesthetic!!! The country really did lose its sense of optimism around that time. I felt it, but I never attributed that feeling to what you were describing! The results of the election, 9/11, and the Iraq War did paint that darker image for me as a kid. The collective trauma was/is so powerful. But also, I'm happy the bright futurism, bright colors, chromes, and metallic colors are coming around again! Just adds that bit of hope for the future, like you said. Awesome video, thank you for making these!!!
