9/16/2023 0 Comments 90s nostalgia![]() ![]() ![]() "I believe it has something to do with the way people are watching media these days. It is an interesting thing that is happening now and I have seen it in my students who are all into watching shows like Friends. "My background is cult cinema and there has been a lot done around nostalgia in cult cinema and what people become nostalgic for, even things that were not around when they were born. "Every generation looks back at past trends," says Dr Middlemost, an expert in pop culture. There's been the resurgence of vinyl as the trend-setters' choice of music consumption rather than the ease of a digital download, and now the hipsters have discovered the nostalgic sound of a whirring cassette from which to enjoy the dulcet tones of everyone from Salt-N-Pepa to Rick Astley.ĭr Renee Middlemost, a Lecturer in Global Communication and Media in the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, says the sense of nostalgia that seems to be gripping Generation Z is influenced, paradoxically, by the huge amount of pop culture content with which they are faced. Pop culture used to define a generation, but it seems the cultural, music and fashion trends of the 1990s have been recycled, and what Generation X considered its rite of passage into adulthood, is being discovered and claimed by fledgling grown-ups as their own. My old clothes are now considered 'vintage', I could be making an extra income from my vinyl collection, and those dusty magnetic video boxsets are once again all the rage. When I moved from the 1990s into the 2000s, I put my denim shirt and skinny legs jeans in the back of the cupboard, the old records in the garage, and the video cassettes in the bin. ![]()
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