Poll

[transomwhiplass]

I haven't done a poll in awhile so I felt it was time to take advantage of this fun paid-account feature since I can.

This is a topic that has been intriguing me for awhile. I have a hypothesis that most people area pretty black & white when it comes to 90s pop music - they used to love it or hate it, or were too terrified to admit one or the other and risk alienating all of their friends. I also think that 80s/90s culture seems to be making a weird comeback maybe thanks to VH1's "I Love the ___" specials (ok, I love that show. Michael Ian Black is fuggin' awesome and Mo Rocca rock-as my sock-as.) I just seem to be hearing that "old" stuff more and more. I remember being morally horrified by current pop music in middle school - I'd probably kill someone if they accused me of liking a boy band or one of the teen queens at the time. I think I wanted to be all indie/emo and not like things because they were trendy.

Now it seems I've grown a really weird sense of humor for that music (oy... nostalgia for the "good ol' days"?). At the carolling/cookiei party.. I kept joking we should sing Britney songs. I have "Toxic" in my music folder - I don't care, it's hella-catchy and a LOT of people have it too (I checked over iTunes file-sharing and I was shocked!). Anywayyy.. I'm bored. If your're bored - fill this out.


[Poll #412408]


For the record I have the self-titled Backstreet Boys album. Yes, I admit it but I didn't buy it. I got it as a birthday gift :\.. same year I got Celine Dion's CD with the "Titanic" song as a gift. That was a messed up birthday. The next year someone with a sick sense of humor me got Pokemon's "2 B A Master" sountrack as a gift... wtf. People teased me whenever they saw my CD case.. e-tears* ;_; I eventually learned to keep those things in a dark corner of my closet (I'm on a common sense learning curve sometimes: takes up space + don't listen to + totally embarrassing should automatically = THROW AWAY IMMEDIATELY! Maybe I have some kind of sick penchant for being teased..)

Comments

[molestahlestah.livejournal.com]

I must point out, I vastly prefer early nineties pop to mid/late nineties pop.

[sammehtosh.livejournal.com]

True, true.

Early ninties/late eighties were quite different times than the mid/late nineties.

Fashion was awful (WOO LEGGINGS!) but the music was better.

[nikehness.livejournal.com]

I really don't hate much music with a passion...some of the popular crap is catchy but I still don't like it enough to download it...but it doesn't make me retch and gouge out my ears when I hear it. I'm in between. Just in case you were wondering where my answers came from. Hehehehe.

[birdinablender.livejournal.com]

I agree with Niki. I don't so much hate the new stuff, but I don't like it enough to pay for it. I've gotten into a weird phase in which now I listen to mostly 80's pop, Gwen Stefani and techno, although if you caught me listening to those things a year ago, I would solidly deny it.

In middle school I was one of those girls who had like, 100 backstreet boy and nsync posters. I even wrote a story for my gifted and talented class in which I was married to Kevin Richardson from the Backstreet Boys, and his 'friends' would come over every night and impulsively sing in our living room. I was such a nerd.

[superspazmizu.livejournal.com]

You know how big i am into asian pop. i like it way too much to like american music. But being in college with the typical american white bread girl as a roomate, i have to listen to "normal" stuff too. I like most of it, but she likes britney and CUNTry. OI!!

i have the waitresses - i know what boys like, cuz we mentioned it that one night. hehehe. the only english song tainting my collection.

And to follow up steph, i use to have JTT plastered all over my walls.