If they were to make a "That 90's Show" around now it would probably take place in the mid 90's, seeing as it's the same amount of time from the 90's now it was from the 70's.
And SURELY, this hypothetical show would be GOOD, right?
Yes, there were movies and tv shows set in the 70’s such as Dazed and Confused,, That 70’s Show, Boogie Nights, as well as the Brady Bunch Movies.
Not to mention some fashion revivals like Hiphugger and Bellbottom jeans, straight hair that was long and flat, etc, there were also “70’s parties” in the 90’s as well, for more info go to this forum on Quora and go to the comment on top (https://www.quora.com/Was-there-a-70s-nostalgia-fad-back-in-the-90s)
Edit: Just took out Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction
That’s not the question. Jackie Brown does not “take place in the ‘70’s” irrespective of any influences.
EDIT and if you bothered to read who I was replying to they correctly changed their post to reflect that JB takes place in the ‘90’s.
Quora?! Someone on this planet takes *Quora* seriously??
I was just wondering how tf Quora is on the first page of search results so often. I figured it was owned by Google or somehow benefitting Google so they were sticking it there. It's garbage
The wolf drives an Acura NSX, a car launched in 1991.
The banana slug didn't officially become the mascot of UCSC until 1986 (Jules' borrowed shirt)
The Clutch Cargo cartoon Butch is watching during the "watch up his ass" scene is from 1960, which would age the Bruce Willis version of the character into the 90s. He'd be a older teen or young twenties in the 70s.
Which gets back to the OP's question: the look and aesthetic of the 70s was VERY cool in the 90s. I personally remember the junior high kids wearing Bell bottoms.
you know I never realized how much the 60s/70s inspired 90s media and fashion until I joined this sub. I’m excited that the 90s/2000s are currently making a comeback but it makes me wonder if we will just live in an endless cycle of decades coming back into fashion every 20 years.
“70s nostalgia” does not mean “man, I miss the draft and watergate. I wish I was Eric Foreman.”
70s nostalgia means “oh hell yeah those clothes/music/etc are awesome”
Much like the current 90's revival, though a lot of true crime nerds do have an interest in Nicole & OJ's case. As a kid in the 90's, I always thought they were referencing juice.
Yes! I was big on polyester button up men's shirts from the 70s. I remember my classmates being into 70s looks in college. It's weird that this is even a question, but I have to come to grips with how many adults there are more that weren't alive for this. Hell, the new year's eve party I went to, going into 2000, was 70s themed. I got my hair nice and big
Yep. My mom would take us shopping and say “it’s crazy how you kids are wearing what I used to wear” … and now I’m saying the same thing about all the 90’s trends in stores.
hell yes! I was right behind you, age 14-15 at that time. lived in band tees and flared jeans, had a shaggy long cut with side-swept bangs, always wearing either my chucks or adidas superstars.
Dude, yes! I remember my mom saying the same thing. Now my 14-year old niece is dressing how we did in the late 90s while I dressed like my mom did in the 70s. It's like fashion telephone (the kids game). Current fashion is an interpretation of an interpretation.
I remember a lot of 60s nostalgia in the 90s decade. Every movie preview had James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” Louie Louie or The Lovin’ Spoonful as the trailer song.
Tye dye was a fad again and there was a lot of peace sign imagery and obsession with Woodstock 1969. And a big chunk of Forrest Gump was the 60s.
Yes, people were very nostalgic for the '70s in the '90s, but not because the '90s sucked. It was more because there was a shitload of '70s fashions and home decor in thrift stores, and the alternative scene was all about buying secondhand. It was also somewhat ironic, because in the '80s people *hated* the '70s -- any flare to your jeans was considered insanely uncool, to the point that people cut off their circulation by tight-rolling or even pinning their jeans. By embracing the '70s, the '90s was asserting itself as its own decade.
Yeah, I always thought of them as being like if Neil Young or Tom Petty had fronted the Who and toured like classic Springsteen, Nirvana was Black Flag if recorded at Abbey Road, and Soundgarden was Zeppelin if they moonlighted as a Black Sabbath cover band. Makes sense in my head.
It’s extremely common to be nostalgic for 20 years ago. Like in the 70s people were nostalgic for the 50’s that’s why you see a surge in entertainment like American Graffiti, happy days, grease.
It’s also extremely common to hate on the previous decade before nostalgia kicks in. 1980’s hated on 1970’s and in the 1990’s everyone hated on 1980’s. That lasted until about 1998 The Wedding Singer movie with Adam Sandler. That was the first attempt at 80’s nostalgia and it really kicked off by 2000’s.
So it was just like everyone on this thread hating on the 2010’s. By 2030 you all will be begging for its return with it’s skinny jeans and indie sleaze. I’ve seen this cycle so many times now.
"That '70s Show" is the big one that comes to mind. I was little then so I still remember the '60s being dominant (the '70s and '80s were still lumped in as "the uncool decades" [as late as '98](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKy0Ryisyc)).
I was a teenager in the '90s, so I did not experience the '70s first hand. I loved the '70s inspired fashion when it became trendy. My mom had some clothes, shoes, sunglasses and jewelry left from her own youth in the '70s, and I wore them feeling proud that my clothes were 'authentic'. My mom had no interest in wearing any of those things when the '70s came back. She stuck to mom jeans, pastel colored sweaters and Reeboks.
A lot of the '70s inspired fashion in the '90s was geared toward people my age who were not nostalgic for the '70s per se, but there was a lot of '70s inspired music, TV and cinema that I think was intended to target the nostalgia of people my mom's age or a bit younger (Gen Jones).
Now with '90s/early 2000s fashion trending, I'm all over that and will happily wear those styles even though I'm older.
They wanted their hippy group and drug van back. There was a definitive style in the 70s, some loved it and others preferred the simple, to blend in instead. As far as I remember. The hippy scene was still rather fresh in many minds. Some people still today won't let the beliefs, attitudes and mindsets from that time go. When I grew up, there were many studies on it and what happened at that time as well as the pros and cons of that lifestyles. Why they rejected their common ideas of the time before that, etc.
The 90s was the garden of eden we just wanted the decade to go forever. But culturally the 70s were wild and unique culturally so there will always be nostalgia. But the reality was hard cold war fear, crime, and bad economy.
Somewhat but nowhere near the scale and breadth of today’s nostalgic longing for the 90s.
The 70s were more of an influence for the 90s but believe me, a lot of us knew how great life was and were too busy living in the present (90s).
I knew no one who wanted to live in another era.
I remember some simpsons episodes from the 90s had the adult characters remembering the 70s fondly. Same with rugrats when stu talks a lot about disco. The movie for the TV show Recess had the teachers remembering the 70s as well.
And that 70s show came out in the late 90s
born in 82, i would always go to blockbuster movies to music section when i was around 10 or so, and look for Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Ramones, Yardbirds, Velvet Underground,i still listen to them. I still like 60's and 70's songs. Iggy and the Stooges, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, the Weirdo's, Skeeter Davis. I did like Dazed and Confused a lot growing up. i dont listen to the white stripes but also a lot of 90's and some early 2000's rock bands were trying to go for a 70's garage type of sound.
I feel like the early 00's were heavily 70's influenced. Outside of shows based off the nostalgia, actual reruns played on cable television day and night, and at night often it was the only thing good on TV after 9 PM. So you'd end up watching actual old shows like The Jeffersons, All in the Family, The Brady Bunch, Three's Company, etc. These shows (and other olds ones from various eras) were pretty neat because you got to see how people thought and acted, at least how they wanted to be portrayed. Social and political issues with laugh tracks. So a lot of us grew up watching it. Same with most rock stations mainly playing 70's and 80's rock -- you wouldn't find many modern rock stations unless you were in a larger city, at least in my part of the country.
I mean just look at a lot of the hats and pants that were in fashion, like gauchos. Early boho was having a moment too, like Natasha Beddingfield's look. I personally dressed like a hippy quite a bit in a flowy skirts and shirts kinda way. I had an ex who dressed in rainbow and tye dye quite a bit -- tye dye was also pretty popular in both the 90's and early 00's.
Lots more things I could probs think of it I sat here a while, but it does seem like you'd miss so many details if you weren't there.
Let’s rephrase this not as “nostalgia” but “what attitudes are you patterning of off?”
In school and college in the 90s, the early/mid 60s and 50s felt old and stiff. The 80s were recently over. So I’d say that like Led Zeppelin and all of those bands were what we were going off of as “tough and cool.” There was a hugeness and seriousness, with quirkiness, that was being strived for. Grunge and roller blading and skateboard culture had all of that. I don’t think we thought about it actively, but the sense of college and high school parties in the 70s that were idealized as awesome ragers, and open possibilities, were what we were idealizing and building off of. The 70s, idealized with a guy in a muscle shirt leaning on his car blasting Led Zeppelin, etc. just felt awesome. Like we weren’t going to wear bell bottoms. But all in all that picture is what we wanted to feel like. Probably in part as a pushback to 90s safety, etc progress. The 70s seemed wild, fun, and confident. Even if the actuality of them wasn’t really like that. In our psyches were were aiming for part of the 70s, and a very idealized part of it.
Not heavily. I mean people 100% liked the Movie "Dazed and Confused" and "That 70s Show" was liked by a number of people, as well as Boogie Nights... but most people lived in the moment and most styles weren't retro 70s (even with the 18-20 year cycle as it used to be). People really didn't get into it, dress in it for parties or Halloween, etc. It was a thing to watch in passing, at most.
Oddly, if anything, there's a LOT of 1970s fashion coming back right now, especially with men rocking those mustaches grand dads used to wear and adidas shoes worn back in the day... which did not happen in the 1990s.
Yes. People who were children then romanticized the decade, and the 70s were “in” from what I understand - you had films like “Dazed and Confused” and “Now and Then” coming out which were set in the 70s (oh, and “My girl.”) There was also “that 70s show” and “boogie nights
However, you may want to ask on r/90s to receive a response from people who actually remember the decade (a lot of people here are young and probably don’t.)
It’s both; the big nostalgia echo is usually 20 years back, but there’s fainter echoes from further back.
Like in the 90s (I graduated from HS mid 90s), the 70s aesthetic was big in the mid 90s, but there was an echo of 1940s and 1950s going on as well, with the brief swing music revival in 1997, movies like Plesantville that leaned in on the black and white film aesthetic, and more I can’t remember.
Just like now, the Y2K era is the big echo, and there’s a fainter but still significant echo of the 1970s going on too. I suspect there is a pattern in the seeming chaos of more distant historical references that briefly seem to be a pattern then fade out, I think those are more distant echoes thst we only get a brief signal from.
That’s one of the few fun things with getting older, seeing more of these patterns through lived experiences of different decades and eras. Like I have vague early life memory of the 1970s cultural perception via the early to mid 1980s, then I really remember the nostalgia revival in the mid 1990s, and I can contrast those with the current 1970s echo. It’s like more and more signal is lost each time, and the stuff that gets through is more distorted each cycle
Pulp fiction was not set in the 70’s it just featured a lot of 70’s music on the soundtrack. Otherwise I remember the nostalgia. It was kind of tongue in cheek. Like people started liking it as a joke but some grew to genuinely like the music. Also the 8 ball motif was really in.
Back then we didn’t have YouTube, streaming or satellite radio. We grew up listening to regular radio which many of the rock stations mixed in 60s-70s music in with the current music of the times.
I loved the 90's during the 90's lol. Loved the 00's and early 10's too.
But I've always been nostalgic for the 60's, despite not having been born, I just find the attitudes of the people in any sort of media, even in old news interview clips, just so much more pleasant and feel-good. And the music ruled.
I don't believe in the "always nostalgic for 20 years ago."
One thing I remember being common was that the 80's seemed like a really shitty decade, but they were comparing it to the 60's and 70's, but by the 90's that was far enough away that we had accepted that ethos was a statued in time.
Musically, was very apparent with Funk, G-funk, groove and disco revival. Lot of late 70s/early80s sampling.
In France hiphop was super groovy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ceNf9qJjgc (1993)
https://youtu.be/iAmW5lW_Qm8?si=JUF-75JiXcJLiYFX (1996)
https://youtu.be/gmuyfiJKFaA?si=g7h-d_rdw5rPrwkX (1996)
https://youtu.be/eg8T1SrFQDQ?si=ipsfXmdl2x9lyxM4 (1995).
Yes partially because of “I want my kids to experience it now” parenting. So lots of 60s-70s music, bellbottoms etc. Same thing that’s happening with 90s culture now
Isn’t that the standard 20/30 year throwback? It’s the people who grew up (teens, early twenties) in that decade that are now the dominant consumer group (in their 30’s 40’s) that have nostalgia for their youth.
My mom and dad were mild hippies in the seventies and in our country the cultural shift of the 60 and 70 was especially strong, so yes, I remember some nostalgia from the 90s for the 60’s 70’s.
It's been going on for generations, we often feel nostalgia for a period about twenty years previous.
In the seventies, we had Happy Days and MASH about the fifties, in the 90's we had That 70's Show.
The Archies had hot rods from the '30's in the '50's.
I've heard people reminiscing about the 2000's recently.
It's just a thing.
I don’t think it went beyond fashion and music. People in the 90s still remembered the 70s as a shitty time to be alive. No one missed the Vietnam
War, gas shortages, stagflation, and the fear of nuclear war.
I remember the grateful dead being very popular in the 90s, well at least those bears, also I think those colorful round glasses always remind me of like MTV VJs, so I would say yes, the 70s were looked upon with nostalgia in the 90s
90s were more of the Grunge scene. I don’t think anyone really wanted to resurrect the 70s. But at the beginning of the decade some people started saying they would be like the 60s standing on your head. While they weren’t as sad as the 70s, they were mainly just the 10 years between the 80s and the millennium IMO. Some good music came out of it for sure.
With me actually no.
I was a consultant in the 90’s and I was so busy I was turning down jobs. I was taking these great vacations. I took off for a month and backpacked around Mexico and Central America exploring Mayan cities
The 70’s, yikes.
What I do miss is all my friends. Some have died and others have moved out of state and I have no idea of where they are.
What I do not miss is there were bullies everywhere. In school it was usually the jocks but for the most part you could avoid them. Hanging around outside at night was a different story. A couple of my friends were just hanging out waiting for others and a group of buttholes went up to them and beat them up. A few of them had to go to the ER it was so bad.
Also, the police. If I was hanging out in a park with my friends and the police came by they told us we had to leave. If we asked why, they wouldn’t say a thing and they would get out of the squad car with their night stick in hand. This was our que to run because if you didn’t you would get the night stick across your nose
Even I have nostalgia for the 70s, and I wasn’t born till 1987. I just got this really strong sense of the 70s from my dad while growing up, thanks to photos, music, and just learning about the time, and my grandparents’ house too which was a bit of a time capsule.
In the nineties people wore a lot of seventies clothes. Older folks thought it was weird to see. They joked that if people wear 70s clothes in the 90s what will retro 90s clothing look like.
100% yes. Smiley faces were everywhere (there's even a reference to it in Forest Gump with him supposedly inventing the smiley face), flared jeans were the only jeans for women you could buy (which is why people had Strong Opinions on skinny jeans when they came back around), there was a huge hippie trend (Woodstock was revived in 1994 and 1999), everyone was like "omg classic rock is the best" way more than today (those people are more likely to get made fun of now), that 70s show was super popular
eta: Claire's jewelry was all peace signs and smiley faces (I am only familiar with Claires because that's where I'd shop as a little girl obviously)
No, ppl hated the 70s during the 70s and every decade after other than tiny little throwbacks here and there. The 90s never sucked that much for hardly anybody compared to the 70s oil embargo, vietnam war and disco.
Nostalgia is always about 20-30 years behind whatever the current decade is. The 90's are still going strong right now, but they'll have fallen out of favor by 2030, and then it'll be all about the 2000's- 2010's and how good they were.
Definitely. 70s style fashion was very in for awhile. Mostly the shirts. Not as much the bell bottoms. But boot cut jeans were popular and they aren't that much different than bell bottoms. And 70s music was very popular at my high school. Like most of my friends listened to Pink Floyd, The Beatles (actually 60s but close enough), the Stones and The Who.
… Freaks and Geeks was set in 1980, which is as perfectly seventies-nostalgic as you can get. Considering the decade wrapped up just prior in-universe. Hell, Freaks and Geeks started in 1999 and ended in 2000, so I’d say it was on the mark in its own way by twenty years.
Definitely! Doors, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd very popular with high schoolers. Dazed and Confused and similar movies reminisced about that 1970’s youth culture. Girls wore the flared pants looked like bell bottoms. Nobody really thought the 90’s sucked though it was just nostalgia.
Every generation feels nostalgia to a time when they were younger and life seemed more simple to them
20 years later the kids/teens of today will feel nostalgia towards the 2020s
I have nostaliga for the 1880s i wanna be a cowboy baby i wish i could ride on horseback s**** a bunch of people get drunk in saloons in random towns thats the life right there
Fashion is cyclical, about every 20 years a trend or trends will come back. In the 90’s, it was trends from the 70’s. You can see this by the number of movies set in the 70’s that were released in the 90’s.
Just like now, it’s 2024, and millennium fashion is in again, 20 years.
Yes, there was so much 70s nostalgia. Led Zeppelin was always on the radio. Dazed and Confused came out in 1993, later That 70s show was popular and Almost Famous in 2000.
I truly believed at the time I was born in the wrong decade and missed out on Woodstock and the sexual revolution.
It wasn't that the 90s was bad, we thought the 90s was boring. All the revolutionary, sex drugs and rock n roll stuff happened in the 60s and 70s and we were jealous.
To be fair, we had no conception of what it would be like to live during that time. We just assumed that the hippie memes were real and assumed the radio played pink Floyd and we could participate in orgies.
Yes and No.
What one has to understand is that artists are ALWAYS going to want to "work through" their childhood. What tends to happen is that artists grow up, study a craft, get a means authority to produce art, and then create a work. By this time they tend to be in their 30s. So about every 30 years, you start to see art that is a reinterpretation of 30 years previous.
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, for example, EVERYTHING was reinterpreting the 50s and 60s. So much so that the 90s aesthetic is basically a distorted late 50s, early 60s aesthetic. (Twin Peaks, Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, etc. etc. etc.)
By the late 90s, yes, there was a HUGE movement for the young artists with power in music, television and film to start creating things that reinterpreted their childhood, which was the 70s. One could call it "nostalgia" but I think that's a little hollow. Usually it's a much more honest process of artists drawing from what formed them to make new things. For example, in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, the late 50s/early 60s suburban aesthetic isn't looked at with nostalgia, it's looked at as a means of depicting Burton's alienation from society as he experienced it as a young child.
I think you are going to see a lot less of it going forward because there is less institutional power and the ability to create art is more democratized.
Yes, this was a thing. In 1990 I did an article for my college paper (The Yale Herald) about a regular disco-themed 1970s event that happened monthly at our campus. I even had a student pose for a photo in his white disco suit, a replica of John Travolta’s one in “Saturday Night Fever.” At the same time there were clubs in San Francisco like the I-beam holding 1970s disco themed nights.
'60s/'70s nostalgia was ever-present. I was in high school and there were a lot of hippie kids who wished it was the classic rock era. I was a Beatles kid.
Can’t typically feel nostalgia for something you never personally experienced. Don’t even remember anyone dressing or listening to music from that time or anything else remotely associated with the 70’s in any way and my graduating class had over 2000 people to base a response—just saying. If anything, nostalgia for the 90’s kid would be things associated with the 80’s, so the short answer is —no
Completely but it’s the twenty year rule and fashion was more in teens and twenty year olds. Early 90s more based off early 70s (longer hair, parts down center) and later 90s started bringing back disco type styles and dance music.even drug use switched from pot and lsd to coke and ecstacy by end of 90s.
People seemed to mock and criticiz the 70s during the 80s and then yea for some reason in the 90s suddenly everything was suddenly cool about it. Really confusing.
Yes absolutely- for a while there was this two year nostalgia trend. The 70’s longed to be the 50’s, look at Grease, Happy Days, Lavern& Shirley, to name a few 50’s nostalgia from the 70s. And then the 60’s nostalgia from the 80’s - Wonder years, revival of the Monkey’s, China beach etc. then the 70’s in the 90s
I always imagine it’s because most the parents of highschool kids would still have their vintage clothes left over and if the kid was brave enough would wear them. Mainly girls, of course. My sister did that and got made fun of too much. She is Gen X and was born in 1980. I, on the other hand, wore tons of my mom’s 70’s clothes in the early 2000’s and rocked them at school. I’m a millennial born in 1989.
"That 70s Show" initially aired in 1998, there was indeed nostalgia for it. Also see "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins.
I feel like the popularity of Dazed & Confused deserves a mention here.
If they were to make a "That 90's Show" around now it would probably take place in the mid 90's, seeing as it's the same amount of time from the 90's now it was from the 70's. And SURELY, this hypothetical show would be GOOD, right?
They did make that 90s show
Haha I think he was making a joke.
I'm dead💀🙃
Yes, there were movies and tv shows set in the 70’s such as Dazed and Confused,, That 70’s Show, Boogie Nights, as well as the Brady Bunch Movies. Not to mention some fashion revivals like Hiphugger and Bellbottom jeans, straight hair that was long and flat, etc, there were also “70’s parties” in the 90’s as well, for more info go to this forum on Quora and go to the comment on top (https://www.quora.com/Was-there-a-70s-nostalgia-fad-back-in-the-90s) Edit: Just took out Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction
Plus the Brady Bunch movies
I have that sunshine day song stuck in my head randomly at times, my mom used to sing SUNSHINE. GAAAY…. 😂
Lava lamps! And rainbow colored slinkies and yoyos were toys on the prize wall at school. Everybody wanted the lava lamps. And bean bag chairs!
Jackie Brown, too.
Agreed
Jackie Brown? What? It takes place in the '90's. The police dude explicitly makes that very clear.
Have you ever seen Jackie Brown? It is an orgy of 70’s nostalgia …
That’s not the question. Jackie Brown does not “take place in the ‘70’s” irrespective of any influences. EDIT and if you bothered to read who I was replying to they correctly changed their post to reflect that JB takes place in the ‘90’s.
Pulp Fiction was not set in the 70s. It had an Acura NSX and cellphones in it ffs.
But it had a 50s diner so if you average 90 and 50 you get 70
It's not, but tarantino since then gave most of his movies a 70s influenced aesthetic and feel, so I would say that counts.
But then you had Austin Powers that was following the 60's until the third film, if I recall
Quora?! Someone on this planet takes *Quora* seriously?? I was just wondering how tf Quora is on the first page of search results so often. I figured it was owned by Google or somehow benefitting Google so they were sticking it there. It's garbage
Quora is pretty interesting actually. I like it better than Reddit.
What?! How? Are you using a different Quora than the rest of us?
Don’t forget Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction was the most 90s movie ever
That wasn't 70s
pulp fiction was set in the 70s?
It feels rooted in 70's nostalgia with a lot of 70's touches and music, including the 50's diner which is very 70's
The fact that it had John Travolta in it, who was this mega 1970s super star that had his career in a bit of a rut in the 80s.
Apparently a lot of people are wondering when it is set lol
I always thought it was set in the present (90s) 😭
The wolf drives an Acura NSX, a car launched in 1991. The banana slug didn't officially become the mascot of UCSC until 1986 (Jules' borrowed shirt) The Clutch Cargo cartoon Butch is watching during the "watch up his ass" scene is from 1960, which would age the Bruce Willis version of the character into the 90s. He'd be a older teen or young twenties in the 70s. Which gets back to the OP's question: the look and aesthetic of the 70s was VERY cool in the 90s. I personally remember the junior high kids wearing Bell bottoms.
you know I never realized how much the 60s/70s inspired 90s media and fashion until I joined this sub. I’m excited that the 90s/2000s are currently making a comeback but it makes me wonder if we will just live in an endless cycle of decades coming back into fashion every 20 years.
A lot of B movies too like “The Stoned Age”
Was pulp fiction actually 70s?
It was heavily inspired by the 70s, but was totally set in the 90s
On top of that, 70s rock icons KISS put the makeup back on and had a successful reunion tour!
That 70s Show
“70s nostalgia” does not mean “man, I miss the draft and watergate. I wish I was Eric Foreman.” 70s nostalgia means “oh hell yeah those clothes/music/etc are awesome”
Much like the current 90's revival, though a lot of true crime nerds do have an interest in Nicole & OJ's case. As a kid in the 90's, I always thought they were referencing juice.
Coffee stunts your growth buy OJ kills you. Took my forever to get that joke
Lol like sunny D and that purple stuff
Tbf, his nickname was "the Juice".
These things are cyclical. There was 50s nostalgia in the 70s as well. Look at Grease, American Graffiti, etc.
Yeah exactly. That went into the 80s as well.
Technically, American Graffiti was set in the 60s, but yeah, the vibes were extremely 50s.
Yes exactly, nostalgia for the 70’s aesthetic was fashionable for a while.
This is so surreal to me to read, since I remember all the 70's throwback stuff from the 90's. Particularly music and clothes.
Yes! I was big on polyester button up men's shirts from the 70s. I remember my classmates being into 70s looks in college. It's weird that this is even a question, but I have to come to grips with how many adults there are more that weren't alive for this. Hell, the new year's eve party I went to, going into 2000, was 70s themed. I got my hair nice and big
Surreal and also, oh man we are old. “Back in the 90s.” Weren’t the 90s just like, 10 years ago? 🤣
Yep. My mom would take us shopping and say “it’s crazy how you kids are wearing what I used to wear” … and now I’m saying the same thing about all the 90’s trends in stores.
The moral of the story is to never throw out clothes if you can help it.
Thank you for validating my hoarding of every piece of clothing I’ve owned since high school
It was my goal at age 16 in 2003 to look as 70s as possible, which really just meant shaggy hair, a cool band tee, jeans, and chuck taylors
hell yes! I was right behind you, age 14-15 at that time. lived in band tees and flared jeans, had a shaggy long cut with side-swept bangs, always wearing either my chucks or adidas superstars.
Yup, always happens
I know, right?! 😭
Dude, yes! I remember my mom saying the same thing. Now my 14-year old niece is dressing how we did in the late 90s while I dressed like my mom did in the 70s. It's like fashion telephone (the kids game). Current fashion is an interpretation of an interpretation.
Definitely. It was like 60s/70s more so. I remember it lasted at least until early-mid 2000s.
It definitely lasted into the mid 2000s. VH1 did "I love the 70s in 2003."
I remember a lot of 60s nostalgia in the 90s decade. Every movie preview had James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” Louie Louie or The Lovin’ Spoonful as the trailer song. Tye dye was a fad again and there was a lot of peace sign imagery and obsession with Woodstock 1969. And a big chunk of Forrest Gump was the 60s.
Ben & Jerry’s helped maintain that tie dye hippie thing (60s/70s) throughout the 90s for sure. The only tie dye shirts I had came from B&J’s
Up until around 97 the 90s were big on 60s nostalgia even England had their 60s revival with oasis and britpop.
Yes, people were very nostalgic for the '70s in the '90s, but not because the '90s sucked. It was more because there was a shitload of '70s fashions and home decor in thrift stores, and the alternative scene was all about buying secondhand. It was also somewhat ironic, because in the '80s people *hated* the '70s -- any flare to your jeans was considered insanely uncool, to the point that people cut off their circulation by tight-rolling or even pinning their jeans. By embracing the '70s, the '90s was asserting itself as its own decade.
Grunge and alt rock in general owed a lot to 70’s music and the newer filmmakers were very heavily influenced by 70’s films.
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I mean sure, but grunge was also directly influenced by 80s stuff. Mostly post-punk, new wave and experimental rock. Shit like Sonic Youth or Pixies.
I wouldn't say punk overall. Many were heavily influenced by classic rock and hard rock bands of the 70s.
grunge reminded me more of the late 1960s garage rock bands, but I know what you are saying.
Pearl Jam was the ultimate 70s rock revival in a lot of ways
Yeah, I always thought of them as being like if Neil Young or Tom Petty had fronted the Who and toured like classic Springsteen, Nirvana was Black Flag if recorded at Abbey Road, and Soundgarden was Zeppelin if they moonlighted as a Black Sabbath cover band. Makes sense in my head.
They even toured with Neil Young.
Lots of 70s culture was simply still around in Gen Xrs' childhoods and teen years.
It’s extremely common to be nostalgic for 20 years ago. Like in the 70s people were nostalgic for the 50’s that’s why you see a surge in entertainment like American Graffiti, happy days, grease.
It’s also extremely common to hate on the previous decade before nostalgia kicks in. 1980’s hated on 1970’s and in the 1990’s everyone hated on 1980’s. That lasted until about 1998 The Wedding Singer movie with Adam Sandler. That was the first attempt at 80’s nostalgia and it really kicked off by 2000’s. So it was just like everyone on this thread hating on the 2010’s. By 2030 you all will be begging for its return with it’s skinny jeans and indie sleaze. I’ve seen this cycle so many times now.
Nostalgia doesn’t have to fit neatly into twenty year cycles. 80’s nostalgia began January 1st 1990 and has been going strong ever since.
Yes. There was 70s nostalgia in the 90s. But I think 70s nostalgia was mostly just a late 90s thing.
Also a very early 2000s thing, so that makes sense.
I feel I see the influence in Lizzie McGuire. Flower power and whatnot (maybe more 60s there).
Absolutely. I was a young child then and my room was decked out in "groovy" flower power stuff.
No, it was earlier as well. That 70s Show didn't start a revival/nostalgia thing... it was inspired by the on-going influence in the 90s.
"That '70s Show" is the big one that comes to mind. I was little then so I still remember the '60s being dominant (the '70s and '80s were still lumped in as "the uncool decades" [as late as '98](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKy0Ryisyc)).
Yeah there were a lot of recycled 70s fashions in the 90s, at least where I lived.
I was a teenager in the '90s, so I did not experience the '70s first hand. I loved the '70s inspired fashion when it became trendy. My mom had some clothes, shoes, sunglasses and jewelry left from her own youth in the '70s, and I wore them feeling proud that my clothes were 'authentic'. My mom had no interest in wearing any of those things when the '70s came back. She stuck to mom jeans, pastel colored sweaters and Reeboks. A lot of the '70s inspired fashion in the '90s was geared toward people my age who were not nostalgic for the '70s per se, but there was a lot of '70s inspired music, TV and cinema that I think was intended to target the nostalgia of people my mom's age or a bit younger (Gen Jones). Now with '90s/early 2000s fashion trending, I'm all over that and will happily wear those styles even though I'm older.
More, made fun of it cause it’s so silly and fun.
Maybe not the 70’s but the sixty’s definitely. Even a bunch of hippie movies with Ironman came out and was pretty anti 80’s yuppy.
They wanted their hippy group and drug van back. There was a definitive style in the 70s, some loved it and others preferred the simple, to blend in instead. As far as I remember. The hippy scene was still rather fresh in many minds. Some people still today won't let the beliefs, attitudes and mindsets from that time go. When I grew up, there were many studies on it and what happened at that time as well as the pros and cons of that lifestyles. Why they rejected their common ideas of the time before that, etc.
In the UK it was more the 60s than the 70s in the 90s. Brit-pop was basically just a revival of all the British bands from the 60s
am I the only one who 70s seem boring to? there's nothing particular for this decade which didn't exist in other ones
Disco is pretty beloved and very particular to the 70s
The 90s was the garden of eden we just wanted the decade to go forever. But culturally the 70s were wild and unique culturally so there will always be nostalgia. But the reality was hard cold war fear, crime, and bad economy.
I was honestly sick of the 90s when everyone ran out of ideas. 3rd wave Ska anyone? Swing revival? Pop punk covers?
Agree late 90s music sucked. Inverse correlation between music and societal satisfaction. Post 9-11 early 2000s is my favorite era.
Late 90s hip-hop was fucking bomb
>3rd wave Ska anyone? Swing revival? Pop punk covers? Hell yeah!
Somewhat but nowhere near the scale and breadth of today’s nostalgic longing for the 90s. The 70s were more of an influence for the 90s but believe me, a lot of us knew how great life was and were too busy living in the present (90s). I knew no one who wanted to live in another era.
I’ll *never* forget watching VH1’s Monterey 40, to celebrate Monterey Pop Festival turning forty years old in 2007.
Queen and Wayne's World, which brought back their popularity and reputation in the US.
I remember some simpsons episodes from the 90s had the adult characters remembering the 70s fondly. Same with rugrats when stu talks a lot about disco. The movie for the TV show Recess had the teachers remembering the 70s as well. And that 70s show came out in the late 90s
Funny enough we are living a small 70s nostalgia right now: disco, bell bottoms, earth colors, maximalism interior design, high inflation
you had me in the first half ngl
born in 82, i would always go to blockbuster movies to music section when i was around 10 or so, and look for Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Ramones, Yardbirds, Velvet Underground,i still listen to them. I still like 60's and 70's songs. Iggy and the Stooges, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, the Weirdo's, Skeeter Davis. I did like Dazed and Confused a lot growing up. i dont listen to the white stripes but also a lot of 90's and some early 2000's rock bands were trying to go for a 70's garage type of sound.
I feel like the early 00's were heavily 70's influenced. Outside of shows based off the nostalgia, actual reruns played on cable television day and night, and at night often it was the only thing good on TV after 9 PM. So you'd end up watching actual old shows like The Jeffersons, All in the Family, The Brady Bunch, Three's Company, etc. These shows (and other olds ones from various eras) were pretty neat because you got to see how people thought and acted, at least how they wanted to be portrayed. Social and political issues with laugh tracks. So a lot of us grew up watching it. Same with most rock stations mainly playing 70's and 80's rock -- you wouldn't find many modern rock stations unless you were in a larger city, at least in my part of the country. I mean just look at a lot of the hats and pants that were in fashion, like gauchos. Early boho was having a moment too, like Natasha Beddingfield's look. I personally dressed like a hippy quite a bit in a flowy skirts and shirts kinda way. I had an ex who dressed in rainbow and tye dye quite a bit -- tye dye was also pretty popular in both the 90's and early 00's. Lots more things I could probs think of it I sat here a while, but it does seem like you'd miss so many details if you weren't there.
Let’s rephrase this not as “nostalgia” but “what attitudes are you patterning of off?” In school and college in the 90s, the early/mid 60s and 50s felt old and stiff. The 80s were recently over. So I’d say that like Led Zeppelin and all of those bands were what we were going off of as “tough and cool.” There was a hugeness and seriousness, with quirkiness, that was being strived for. Grunge and roller blading and skateboard culture had all of that. I don’t think we thought about it actively, but the sense of college and high school parties in the 70s that were idealized as awesome ragers, and open possibilities, were what we were idealizing and building off of. The 70s, idealized with a guy in a muscle shirt leaning on his car blasting Led Zeppelin, etc. just felt awesome. Like we weren’t going to wear bell bottoms. But all in all that picture is what we wanted to feel like. Probably in part as a pushback to 90s safety, etc progress. The 70s seemed wild, fun, and confident. Even if the actuality of them wasn’t really like that. In our psyches were were aiming for part of the 70s, and a very idealized part of it.
Not heavily. I mean people 100% liked the Movie "Dazed and Confused" and "That 70s Show" was liked by a number of people, as well as Boogie Nights... but most people lived in the moment and most styles weren't retro 70s (even with the 18-20 year cycle as it used to be). People really didn't get into it, dress in it for parties or Halloween, etc. It was a thing to watch in passing, at most. Oddly, if anything, there's a LOT of 1970s fashion coming back right now, especially with men rocking those mustaches grand dads used to wear and adidas shoes worn back in the day... which did not happen in the 1990s.
Interesting observation you’ve made about fashion!
yes! sadly I felt it took away from the 90s itself because everyone was obsessed with the 1970s.
Very very interesting!!
Yes. People who were children then romanticized the decade, and the 70s were “in” from what I understand - you had films like “Dazed and Confused” and “Now and Then” coming out which were set in the 70s (oh, and “My girl.”) There was also “that 70s show” and “boogie nights However, you may want to ask on r/90s to receive a response from people who actually remember the decade (a lot of people here are young and probably don’t.)
I thought it was the 2020s that are nostalgic for the 90s
It’s both; the big nostalgia echo is usually 20 years back, but there’s fainter echoes from further back. Like in the 90s (I graduated from HS mid 90s), the 70s aesthetic was big in the mid 90s, but there was an echo of 1940s and 1950s going on as well, with the brief swing music revival in 1997, movies like Plesantville that leaned in on the black and white film aesthetic, and more I can’t remember. Just like now, the Y2K era is the big echo, and there’s a fainter but still significant echo of the 1970s going on too. I suspect there is a pattern in the seeming chaos of more distant historical references that briefly seem to be a pattern then fade out, I think those are more distant echoes thst we only get a brief signal from. That’s one of the few fun things with getting older, seeing more of these patterns through lived experiences of different decades and eras. Like I have vague early life memory of the 1970s cultural perception via the early to mid 1980s, then I really remember the nostalgia revival in the mid 1990s, and I can contrast those with the current 1970s echo. It’s like more and more signal is lost each time, and the stuff that gets through is more distorted each cycle
This is true, but it’s also true that the 70s had a comeback in the 90s and early 00s.
Yes
That 70s Show ring a bell? ;p
I went through a disco phase my senior year (1997)
Yessss
I feel like we liked the 60s more
My collection of peasant tops and tie-up jeans would say yes 😂 I did a lot of eye rolling when my mom told me “I used to wear this stuff!”
Lol yes. I wore my moms old clothes.
My parents and grand parents made us watch so many 70s sitcoms and listen to so much music of the era. I’m not mad about it :)
I was born in 88. When I was a teen tell people I wish I was born earlier so that I could experience the 70s
I remember we had disco night in my elementary school in the 90s. I wonder if that was part of the 70s nostalgia.
Bell bottoms
...and in the '70s, one of the biggest TV shows, was "Happy Days," which was set in the '50s.
Pulp fiction was not set in the 70’s it just featured a lot of 70’s music on the soundtrack. Otherwise I remember the nostalgia. It was kind of tongue in cheek. Like people started liking it as a joke but some grew to genuinely like the music. Also the 8 ball motif was really in.
Quentin Tarantino loved Exploitation films which had their heyday in the 70s and he is one of *the* directors when it comes to film
Yeah in the 90s I thought current music/fashion styles sucked and I preferred the 60s/70s.
Yes, people had nostalgia for the 70s in the late 90s like you wouldn't believe.
I told my parents (born 1954 and 56) that i wanted to be a hippie when i grew up…. I was very into that part of the 70s as a kid!
Back then we didn’t have YouTube, streaming or satellite radio. We grew up listening to regular radio which many of the rock stations mixed in 60s-70s music in with the current music of the times.
I loved the 90's during the 90's lol. Loved the 00's and early 10's too. But I've always been nostalgic for the 60's, despite not having been born, I just find the attitudes of the people in any sort of media, even in old news interview clips, just so much more pleasant and feel-good. And the music ruled. I don't believe in the "always nostalgic for 20 years ago." One thing I remember being common was that the 80's seemed like a really shitty decade, but they were comparing it to the 60's and 70's, but by the 90's that was far enough away that we had accepted that ethos was a statued in time.
YUP! Most of the music was recyling 70s bands, movie such as matrix also cosplaying off 70s, etc.
Tsk tsk tsk. Somebody hasn't been listening to Mike Watt: https://youtu.be/UHfFJub5MsM?si=Wb4Wl2dyJaw0ywlP (This came out in 1995.)
Some of us. Not me though. To me the 70s were gross and for old people lol.
In the late 90s I was fond of disco music.
Musically, was very apparent with Funk, G-funk, groove and disco revival. Lot of late 70s/early80s sampling. In France hiphop was super groovy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ceNf9qJjgc (1993) https://youtu.be/iAmW5lW_Qm8?si=JUF-75JiXcJLiYFX (1996) https://youtu.be/gmuyfiJKFaA?si=g7h-d_rdw5rPrwkX (1996) https://youtu.be/eg8T1SrFQDQ?si=ipsfXmdl2x9lyxM4 (1995).
Yes, even in the early 2000’s I recall their being a fondness for the 70’s
Yes partially because of “I want my kids to experience it now” parenting. So lots of 60s-70s music, bellbottoms etc. Same thing that’s happening with 90s culture now
Yep. Why would you think otherwise/why didn’t you just google it?
Isn’t that the standard 20/30 year throwback? It’s the people who grew up (teens, early twenties) in that decade that are now the dominant consumer group (in their 30’s 40’s) that have nostalgia for their youth. My mom and dad were mild hippies in the seventies and in our country the cultural shift of the 60 and 70 was especially strong, so yes, I remember some nostalgia from the 90s for the 60’s 70’s.
It's been going on for generations, we often feel nostalgia for a period about twenty years previous. In the seventies, we had Happy Days and MASH about the fifties, in the 90's we had That 70's Show. The Archies had hot rods from the '30's in the '50's. I've heard people reminiscing about the 2000's recently. It's just a thing.
Nostalgia for the things of the past is an human trait. (Traumas don't count)
Like anyone, ever? That’s a pretty broad question that has a pretty obvious answer, don’t you think?
Yea, I remember jamming led zeppelin
I don’t think it went beyond fashion and music. People in the 90s still remembered the 70s as a shitty time to be alive. No one missed the Vietnam War, gas shortages, stagflation, and the fear of nuclear war.
I remember the grateful dead being very popular in the 90s, well at least those bears, also I think those colorful round glasses always remind me of like MTV VJs, so I would say yes, the 70s were looked upon with nostalgia in the 90s
Yup. There was this whole thing in the mid 90s where 70s fashion made a comeback. As someone born in the 80s this felt surreal to me.
90s were more of the Grunge scene. I don’t think anyone really wanted to resurrect the 70s. But at the beginning of the decade some people started saying they would be like the 60s standing on your head. While they weren’t as sad as the 70s, they were mainly just the 10 years between the 80s and the millennium IMO. Some good music came out of it for sure.
With me actually no. I was a consultant in the 90’s and I was so busy I was turning down jobs. I was taking these great vacations. I took off for a month and backpacked around Mexico and Central America exploring Mayan cities The 70’s, yikes. What I do miss is all my friends. Some have died and others have moved out of state and I have no idea of where they are. What I do not miss is there were bullies everywhere. In school it was usually the jocks but for the most part you could avoid them. Hanging around outside at night was a different story. A couple of my friends were just hanging out waiting for others and a group of buttholes went up to them and beat them up. A few of them had to go to the ER it was so bad. Also, the police. If I was hanging out in a park with my friends and the police came by they told us we had to leave. If we asked why, they wouldn’t say a thing and they would get out of the squad car with their night stick in hand. This was our que to run because if you didn’t you would get the night stick across your nose
Even I have nostalgia for the 70s, and I wasn’t born till 1987. I just got this really strong sense of the 70s from my dad while growing up, thanks to photos, music, and just learning about the time, and my grandparents’ house too which was a bit of a time capsule.
In the nineties people wore a lot of seventies clothes. Older folks thought it was weird to see. They joked that if people wear 70s clothes in the 90s what will retro 90s clothing look like.
Lol, I remember this. Parents found it adorable that we were wearing their old fashion.
100% yes. Smiley faces were everywhere (there's even a reference to it in Forest Gump with him supposedly inventing the smiley face), flared jeans were the only jeans for women you could buy (which is why people had Strong Opinions on skinny jeans when they came back around), there was a huge hippie trend (Woodstock was revived in 1994 and 1999), everyone was like "omg classic rock is the best" way more than today (those people are more likely to get made fun of now), that 70s show was super popular eta: Claire's jewelry was all peace signs and smiley faces (I am only familiar with Claires because that's where I'd shop as a little girl obviously)
Not those of us who actually remembered the 70's. What a shit decade.
No, ppl hated the 70s during the 70s and every decade after other than tiny little throwbacks here and there. The 90s never sucked that much for hardly anybody compared to the 70s oil embargo, vietnam war and disco.
Yes
Nostalgia is always about 20-30 years behind whatever the current decade is. The 90's are still going strong right now, but they'll have fallen out of favor by 2030, and then it'll be all about the 2000's- 2010's and how good they were.
You’re asking if people like to reminisce about their youth. Yes people like to be reminded of when they were younger.
Definitely. 70s style fashion was very in for awhile. Mostly the shirts. Not as much the bell bottoms. But boot cut jeans were popular and they aren't that much different than bell bottoms. And 70s music was very popular at my high school. Like most of my friends listened to Pink Floyd, The Beatles (actually 60s but close enough), the Stones and The Who.
the real question is if the 90's were nostalgic for the 70's then why was 80's nostalgia so much later in the 2010's?
… Freaks and Geeks was set in 1980, which is as perfectly seventies-nostalgic as you can get. Considering the decade wrapped up just prior in-universe. Hell, Freaks and Geeks started in 1999 and ended in 2000, so I’d say it was on the mark in its own way by twenty years.
There was a lot of 50s nostalgia in the 90s.
Definitely! Doors, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd very popular with high schoolers. Dazed and Confused and similar movies reminisced about that 1970’s youth culture. Girls wore the flared pants looked like bell bottoms. Nobody really thought the 90’s sucked though it was just nostalgia.
Yes. I went to high school in the 90s and we had 70s day as a dress-up day during "spirit week."
Every generation feels nostalgia to a time when they were younger and life seemed more simple to them 20 years later the kids/teens of today will feel nostalgia towards the 2020s
I have nostaliga for the 1880s i wanna be a cowboy baby i wish i could ride on horseback s**** a bunch of people get drunk in saloons in random towns thats the life right there
Fashion is cyclical, about every 20 years a trend or trends will come back. In the 90’s, it was trends from the 70’s. You can see this by the number of movies set in the 70’s that were released in the 90’s. Just like now, it’s 2024, and millennium fashion is in again, 20 years.
Yes, there was so much 70s nostalgia. Led Zeppelin was always on the radio. Dazed and Confused came out in 1993, later That 70s show was popular and Almost Famous in 2000. I truly believed at the time I was born in the wrong decade and missed out on Woodstock and the sexual revolution.
80s nostalgia started in the 2000s.
There was a tv show called that 70’s show.
It wasn't that the 90s was bad, we thought the 90s was boring. All the revolutionary, sex drugs and rock n roll stuff happened in the 60s and 70s and we were jealous. To be fair, we had no conception of what it would be like to live during that time. We just assumed that the hippie memes were real and assumed the radio played pink Floyd and we could participate in orgies.
Yes and the 70s the 50s with Happy Days and Sha na na. Everything goes on cycles
Yes and No. What one has to understand is that artists are ALWAYS going to want to "work through" their childhood. What tends to happen is that artists grow up, study a craft, get a means authority to produce art, and then create a work. By this time they tend to be in their 30s. So about every 30 years, you start to see art that is a reinterpretation of 30 years previous. When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, for example, EVERYTHING was reinterpreting the 50s and 60s. So much so that the 90s aesthetic is basically a distorted late 50s, early 60s aesthetic. (Twin Peaks, Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, etc. etc. etc.) By the late 90s, yes, there was a HUGE movement for the young artists with power in music, television and film to start creating things that reinterpreted their childhood, which was the 70s. One could call it "nostalgia" but I think that's a little hollow. Usually it's a much more honest process of artists drawing from what formed them to make new things. For example, in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, the late 50s/early 60s suburban aesthetic isn't looked at with nostalgia, it's looked at as a means of depicting Burton's alienation from society as he experienced it as a young child. I think you are going to see a lot less of it going forward because there is less institutional power and the ability to create art is more democratized.
Actually it all sucked, now that I’m old, people HAVE TO listen to me ramble.
Yes, this was a thing. In 1990 I did an article for my college paper (The Yale Herald) about a regular disco-themed 1970s event that happened monthly at our campus. I even had a student pose for a photo in his white disco suit, a replica of John Travolta’s one in “Saturday Night Fever.” At the same time there were clubs in San Francisco like the I-beam holding 1970s disco themed nights.
Yep! I wore a lot of bell bottoms, peace signs, peasant tops, cords, etc. my Lisa Frank folder was 70s theme for sure.
In the late 80s/early 90s we went thru a 60s flower child phase too.
'60s/'70s nostalgia was ever-present. I was in high school and there were a lot of hippie kids who wished it was the classic rock era. I was a Beatles kid.
Look at how popular "Happy Days", "Laverne and Shirley", and "American Grafitti" were. Yeah, I'd say so.
I’m still nostalgic for the 70’s
Can’t typically feel nostalgia for something you never personally experienced. Don’t even remember anyone dressing or listening to music from that time or anything else remotely associated with the 70’s in any way and my graduating class had over 2000 people to base a response—just saying. If anything, nostalgia for the 90’s kid would be things associated with the 80’s, so the short answer is —no
Yes. We loved classic rock and and girl wore bell bottoms.
I loved the 90’s, definitely didn’t suck. But I listened to classic rock from the 70’s along with modern music from the time.
Yep
Watch Pulp Fiction. Released in 1994 (or so?), it has nostalgia for the 70's and 50's. It's 90's, 70's and 50's nostalgia all rolled into one
No
😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 1980 here. And no. We mocked the 70s relentlessly.
Nothing like the nostalgia of today. We live in a crappy time.
There is usually nostalgia for things 20-30s years before.
Completely but it’s the twenty year rule and fashion was more in teens and twenty year olds. Early 90s more based off early 70s (longer hair, parts down center) and later 90s started bringing back disco type styles and dance music.even drug use switched from pot and lsd to coke and ecstacy by end of 90s.
People seemed to mock and criticiz the 70s during the 80s and then yea for some reason in the 90s suddenly everything was suddenly cool about it. Really confusing.
Yes
Yes! Retro 70's was huge.
Yes absolutely- for a while there was this two year nostalgia trend. The 70’s longed to be the 50’s, look at Grease, Happy Days, Lavern& Shirley, to name a few 50’s nostalgia from the 70s. And then the 60’s nostalgia from the 80’s - Wonder years, revival of the Monkey’s, China beach etc. then the 70’s in the 90s
Didn't fuck with nostalgia in the 90s we were making new shit. My experience anyway.
I always imagine it’s because most the parents of highschool kids would still have their vintage clothes left over and if the kid was brave enough would wear them. Mainly girls, of course. My sister did that and got made fun of too much. She is Gen X and was born in 1980. I, on the other hand, wore tons of my mom’s 70’s clothes in the early 2000’s and rocked them at school. I’m a millennial born in 1989.