Blast from the past
Today is the last day of TRL.
They're doing a marathon of TRL playlists on MTV Hits...I flipped on to the 1998 playlist.
Whoa.
Limp Bizkit, 98 Degrees, Marilyn Manson, Spice Girls, Korn, N*Sync...
The world was a crazy place 10 years ago, huh?
So our parents had Soul Train and American Bandstand. We had TRL (and I mean the Carson Daly, actually live, traffic stopping in Times Square years). What will the next generation have?
Oh, I forgot the Backstreet Boys. They're at number one.
It's bad enough that they don't show music videos on MTV anymore. You have to go online for that.
But I miss these days, you know? Coming home after school, having a snack, and doing my math homework with TRL in the background, complaining that some stupid video is number one again...
Eating the new (and I think no longer available) Crispy M&M's while watching Eminem's "My Name Is" video, not realizing how funny that is until years later.
Watching Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" set the first record for number of times at number one. (That's now playing.)
Witnessing the battle between Britney and Christina, wondering why Mandy and Jessica were even bothering, and missing the Spice Girls horribly...
All of that went away when I went to college. Way before The Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana and Lil' Mama and...
OMG, I forgot Mekhi Phifer was in that video!
I digress.
Holy shit! "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It!"
Anyway, I've been in a nostalgic mood, and this marathon isn't helping. But I look at it all this way: we're all looking both behind and ahead right now. We're remembering how awesome things were 10 years ago, but we're also looking ahead to the future.
OMG again, Will Smith's Hawaiian suit in this video was waaaaaaaack!
The future, while it won't be awesome right away, is getting brighter every day.
That's the only way we're going to survive this mess.
Now if you'll excuse me, there's some videos I have to watch.
They're doing a marathon of TRL playlists on MTV Hits...I flipped on to the 1998 playlist.
Whoa.
Limp Bizkit, 98 Degrees, Marilyn Manson, Spice Girls, Korn, N*Sync...
The world was a crazy place 10 years ago, huh?
So our parents had Soul Train and American Bandstand. We had TRL (and I mean the Carson Daly, actually live, traffic stopping in Times Square years). What will the next generation have?
Oh, I forgot the Backstreet Boys. They're at number one.
It's bad enough that they don't show music videos on MTV anymore. You have to go online for that.
But I miss these days, you know? Coming home after school, having a snack, and doing my math homework with TRL in the background, complaining that some stupid video is number one again...
Eating the new (and I think no longer available) Crispy M&M's while watching Eminem's "My Name Is" video, not realizing how funny that is until years later.
Watching Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" set the first record for number of times at number one. (That's now playing.)
Witnessing the battle between Britney and Christina, wondering why Mandy and Jessica were even bothering, and missing the Spice Girls horribly...
All of that went away when I went to college. Way before The Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana and Lil' Mama and...
OMG, I forgot Mekhi Phifer was in that video!
I digress.
Holy shit! "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It!"
Anyway, I've been in a nostalgic mood, and this marathon isn't helping. But I look at it all this way: we're all looking both behind and ahead right now. We're remembering how awesome things were 10 years ago, but we're also looking ahead to the future.
OMG again, Will Smith's Hawaiian suit in this video was waaaaaaaack!
The future, while it won't be awesome right away, is getting brighter every day.
That's the only way we're going to survive this mess.
Now if you'll excuse me, there's some videos I have to watch.
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