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I’ve been thinking recently about youth angst and how differently - and famously - it was expressed through music #InThe90s. The further we get away from the era that defined people of my age (my teen years were spent in the 90s), the more alien it feels in retrospect. A THREAD.
I often wonder why there isn’t more hate and angst in youth culture now. A lot of that, I think, is how different “millennial angst” is manifested in pop culture. It’s absolutely out there - it’s just communicated so differently than ours was, because the outlets or so different.
#InThe90s, “hate” was a mantra. It was *cool* to hate. We hated pop music, we hated old people, our parents, conformity, war, capitalism, commercialism, “selling out,” “the man,” preppies, jocks, “suits,” etc. We defined ourselves not by what we LIKED, but what we HATED.
