Whether it’s nineties rave culture fashion recently co-opted and deconstructed by Virgil Abloh, or a TV reboot of Will & Grace, or a Smashing Pumpkins 30th anniversary reunion tour-clearly, the things we loved then stick with us. But before you could define yourself by how you curated your feed, you did so by how you curated your stuff: the band T-shirts you wore, the books you kept on your nightstand, the CDs in your Case Logic (remember those?!). And we’re constantly casually loving everything. We’re inundated just by waking up and checking our phones. In the world of 2018, there’s SO much ephemera to sift through on a daily basis. But all you have to do is look at what’s coming back around, or never left in the first place, to realize just how good we had it. Sure, this is likely because I was a highly impressionable teenager who grew into an extremely loyal adult. Don’t me ), the best bands put out their best albums in the nineties (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Wu-Tang, Oasis, ahem), and that nothing new will ever be as good as the things I first discovered as a kid.
I truly believe the best movies were made in the nineties ( Swingers, Fight Club, 3 Ninjas, Empire Records.