90’s Nostalgia Trend - SOLO

Episode 20 -  SOLO - 90’s Nostalgia Trend 

I will never stop banging on about how good the 80, 90s and 00’s were BUT in particular the 90s! There I said it!  I'm a proud millennial, maybe even an elder millennial really as I'm an 82 vintage and the starting point is 1981! 

This episode I go on to discuss and have a chat with you all about my thoughts on the 90’s Nostalgia Trend, yes the one with the Goo Goo dolls song Iris in the background. Its not even just that…I've been harping on for the past 2 years at least about how I miss the “good ol days”. 

Today’s chat is about that.  Plain and simple!

✨ What I talk about:

• 90s and how good they were!  
• A simpler time and why I think everyone is loving the trend right now. 
• Asking for you to send me a DM about what you loved about the 90's too!

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Instagram: @officiallyemmayoung
• Emma the Celebrant

Transcript

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You're listening to She Said It Out Loud, where real women share real stories without sugarcoating a thing. I'm your host, Emma Young, and I'll bring you on filtered conversations with ambitious women who faced challenges, made bold moves, and learned a lot along the way. You'll get real takeaways, honest lessons, and stories that you're gonna relate to. Righto, let's get started. Hey there and welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Emma Young, and this is She Said It Out Loud. Today's episode is kindly sponsored by the one and only Matsos Brewery in Broome. That's right, I'm jumping out of my skin to tell you that Matsos Brewery have come on board and today's episode is sponsored by them. Now it is by far one of Broome's most iconic places to visit. And now not only is it known for its laid-back atmosphere in the beer gardens there, they have an on-site brewery where they make their famous ginger beer. During the dry season, which is coming up, they host jam nights on a Tuesday, and of course their Sunday sessions are a must. Head to their website or their socials to keep up to date with whatever's happening at Matsu's Brewery. On to today's episode. It's a solo one, of course, if you'd already read the title. And I did want to say that this weekend is obviously Easter. It's the Easter long weekend. Today's Good Friday. Please be careful out there. I don't know what it is about Easter, but it does seem to bring out the dickheads. Because I'm becoming a bit of an old duck, I don't really like to venture forth when it comes to Easter. I like to stay at home. This is my time to catch up on Netflix. Not that I really ever do that, let's be honest. My husband's probably listening to this going, when does she ever take the time to watch Netflix or a movie for that matter? But I'm gonna commit this weekend, you watch me go, you know, hard yards in reading some books. Today's episode, I've titled it 90s nostalgia trend. It's huge at the moment. You're seeing it everywhere. The celebrities are doing their reels. They've got the you know, Iris by the Goo-Goo dolls in the background playing. Soon as I even hear that song, I'm like, I picture the 1990s, in particular 1998, which was the year that I went on exchange in America, because I am certain that that is the year that it came out. I probably should have done my research. I was living my life as in the last couple of months, just re-going back, saying how good the 90s were, even before that reel became a trend. So I'm just putting that out there. But how good is it? And I just wanted to come on and do a solo episode today about what do you think it is about the 90s? You know, I think nostalgia, it's really big right now, besides the trend. You know, it has been for a while. And I feel like it's because life is moving so fast, you know, technology, work, social media, that's all constantly changing and it can be exhausting. But looking back at older music, you know, shows, I feel like the 80s, the 90s in particular, it reminded us of a simpler and less stressful time. Are people nodding their head right now as they're listening? Feel like because it's so easy, it's easier than ever to revisit the past. Things can be put on streaming services, things are popping up on Instagram, whoever is creating those AI videos of what it was like back in the 90s in Australia, absolute gold. I'm forever forwarding them to my mates who are the same age as me. Look at this. It is so completely realistic. And it it draws you back to like, you know, milk bars and corner delis. The things that I guess back then we would have known that we were taking for granted. And now it's like I would give anything to go back to the 90s, even just a week. If I could find a time machine that was an actual thing, I'm going back there. I also think the nostalgia gives people, you know, something shared to bond over, I guess. Like you would sit there and go, remember when we used to do that? Remember we used to go to Pizza Hut or we can eat buffets for our birthdays? And it wasn't that the past was perfect. It wasn't perfect by any means. But I think it's because it felt familiar and safe compared to the complete uncertainty about how the world is right now. You know, life, not only did it feel slower, it was slower. Of course, there was technology, but it didn't follow you everywhere. Once you left the house, that was it. You were basically unreachable. Who remembers the days of no phones? As in, you never took a phone with you. You didn't take a phone to the toilet just so you could catch up on what's happening on news.com. You know, you actually just went there and, I don't know, stared at the map on the wall. It's the same with when people used to call you on the landline. You know, you wouldn't even know who was ringing, you just had to live on the edge. Those days of living on the edges and not knowing who's contacting you, they're gone. And it's sad. And look, I don't want to sound like a mopey old 90s lady, but I do like to rehash on how good it was. Which millennials are out there listening to this, just nodding their heads, going, yes. And look, even Jet X's are probably like, well, it was even more of a simpler time. I also think there was this sense of optimism. The future felt exciting instead of stressful. I feel like a lot more stressful now. New tech, new music, new movies. When they came out back in the day, as in the 90s, it felt fun rather than overwhelming. People weren't constantly worried about the world ending anytime they turned on the news. But not only that, we all could share something. Culturally, the 90s were like that kind of sweet spot. You know, music, TV, and movies actually felt shared because everybody watched the same shows most of the time. They listen to the same songs and then they would talk about them the next day. And it's not that we don't do that. There's such an endless choice. Trends feel bigger. Back then, I guess they were more meaningful. I feel like that's something that we're just lacking. And look, I think for a lot of people, the 90s line up with childhood and early teenage years, those that are millennials. It felt safer and simpler in hindsight. You know, there was less responsibility, fewer worries. And when we were in our adolescence, you actually hung out and existed in your friend space. There wasn't this constant checking phones. I am guilty of it. I am well aware of going out to dinner with my friends and I got to take a photo of the absolutely stunning food, and then I gotta quickly put it into a reel, add some cool music to the background, then post it. I know, and it's something that I really probably do need to work on. The 90s, it was just a special time, wasn't it? The music, I can't wait for people to send me some messages in my DMs, okay, about what was the music that you listened to. I was Backstreet Boys hands down. Hansen, Spice Girls, Britney was at the very end in 1999. I was scared of Silver Chair, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam. All those bands I've only just started listening to in the last decade. And that's because I've met people my age who used to listen to that. And they look at me like, why were you listening to Backstreet Boys? Oh my god, I love Backstreet Boys. And NSync, of course. I was that sheltered teenage girl that was like, oh my gosh, that alligator in the bath in the prodigy film clip. I looked at that, saw that guy, Keith, I think his name was, having black eyeliner on, and I'm like, holy cow, he's scary. Turn it off. Don't want to know about it. People are probably laughing, going, dear God, Emma, that's pretty sad. But hey, look, that was me. That was me in the 90s. Send me a DM. I want to, I want to get some juice out of this. I want people on the Easter weekend this weekend listening to it. And hey, you don't have to be a millennial. You can be Gen X. Tell me what you guys listen to too. My music taste is even back then as well. Just tell me the things that you used to do. I don't want to say I feel sorry for Gen Zetters, but I kind of do. I'm sorry, Gen Zetters. Because even my own daughter, both my daughters, but El Ella in particular would ask me what was it like, or I know some of her friends, one in particular, like listens to all that music. Makes me happy. Makes me happy that the upcoming generation, there are pockets of them that probably appreciate just how good it was for the Gen Zetters out there. They're probably seeing all these videos and going, what even is this trend? But not only that, the AI ones where you get to see what life was like. And they're probably thinking, oh my god, who runs around in the backyard with a sprinkler on and like a piece of plastic that you then slide down, drinks out of a hose, who does whizzy dizzies on the bloody clothesline, all that sort of stuff. But how good was it? You know, how how good was that time? Man, I'm getting nostalgic, see? And that's another point. I learnt something about a month ago when I did a random day of relief and it was a Friday and it was a year six class, and those that know me know I don't normally like year sixes. I was in this year six class, and this class was a really good class, and there was a girl in there that wrote down something that she missed, and she wrote down I get nostalgic thinking about when I was younger, and straight away I cut her off, and I was like, What are you talking about? You're like 11. How can you even be nostalgic? How's that even possible? Turned to me and she said, Well, it's not old people like yourself that can be the only ones that get nostalgic. I get nostalgic for when I was a little girl and for my toys and for my things. I used to play with my friends and we actually just played. And I mean, you know, obviously that was only for her maybe six or seven years ago max. I kind of learned a lesson in that moment thinking, okay, that's pretty cool that E6 knows what nostalgia is, and she obviously put it in the correct context. I did learn a lesson there where it's like, you know, not it's not like only millennials can be nostalgic. Even this up and coming generation, and and I don't even think she would be a Gen Zenist. She she would obviously be in whatever that next one is. I think it's Alpha, where even she was making comments about feeling nostalgic. It's that feeling. Listen, I'm starting to waffle now. I just wanted to go on and do a solo episode about 90s nostalgia because it's just something I am loving at the moment. I'm not kidding. Please get in I'll say get into my DMs. That sounds a bit dodgy. Please write me a message into my DMs. I'm not a fan of saying slide into my DMs. Just write me a message. Not if you want to be negative, whatever. I'm getting good at that. But try to be positive and tell me what you used to do in the 90s. Tell me what songs you used to listen to, what movies, what are the things that you miss? Do you even care about nostalgia? Anything like that, I'm all here for it. And this weekend is the time to do it because Easter long weekend is when everybody should be chilling. On that note, I want to say thank you for listening to my 90s nostalgia trend solo episode. Till then, bye for now. Thanks for listening to She Said It Out Loud. If you took something away from today's episode, I would love to hear from you. 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