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The '90s:
Itza Jaramillo
Music ColumnistOh Nostalgia I Don't Need You Anymore ...
... Mostly because after this, you aren't going
to want to know a thing about the 1990s, ever.
I think I speak for most of us when I saw we're
the '90s generation, when the cartoons were still
good, and MTV still played music. We didn't
have iPods, but we had ... goodness, I believe
they were called Hit Clips? Where there was
a little chip, with a clip of ONE song that you
played over and over, and if you were lucky
enough to have one, you'd end up sharing it with
20 people before lunch was over. That's how I
remember it, anyway.
Boy bands dominated the era, as far as my ele-
mentary-school mind can remember, and these
songs, along with quite a few others, made up
90 percent of the songs played in school. If you
don't know at least the chorus to these songs,
you're lying. Or you were amazingly unexposed
to this phenomenon. Congratulations, I'm about
to ruin that. So, without further ado, here we go.
*NSYNC is an American boy band formed
in Florida and launched in Germany in 1995.
The most notable member, who's still in the
entertainment business, is, of course, Justin
Timberlake. I think, honestly, the last person I
heard of was Lance Bass, and that's because he
was on Dancing With the Stars? Anyway, Bye
Bye Bye was the quintessential boy band song
- it's catchy and the boys all move in perfect
synchronization. Before you know it, you're
walking down the hall belting out a very poor
rendition of the chorus, where all you really
know is 'Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye-'! Don't lie,
you know all the words. You're humming it right
now. I know it.
And, well, if you aren't, then I bet the next one
will get you. There's no physical way you have
not heard Ice Ice Baby, in one way or another.
It's in soundtracks in every movie, and every
kid knows the little tune to the chorus. Its bass
line is apparently sampled from Under Pressure,
by Queen, and David Bowie. It was released in
1990, and has made its appearance over and over
in movies and songs and dances of various sorts.
Regardless of whether you've heard of Eiffel
65, you've heard I'm Blue. It's also known as
(Da Ba Dee), or that one song that you don't
know the lyrics to, because seriously, what is he
saying? It has been interpreted as 'da ba dee da
ba die' or, alternately, 'if I were green I would[
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it caused quite a stir.
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s Paradise, but one of the more popu-
ons has him and Coolio together. The
ad quite a few adaptations and covers,
and is still going strong since its release
Most recently, it was featured in TheIce Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
I'm Blue - Eiffel 65
Hit Me Baby One More Time - Brittney Spears
I Want Cand' - Aaron Carter
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Gangster Paradise - Tupac and Coolio
Wannabe - The Spice Girls
Everybody - Backstreet Boys
Barbie Girl - Aquabands and otherwise
ich, if you're a blue dude with a blue Green Hornet. It's good, catchy, though I'm not
hing, being green would kinda stink, quite sure if it was played at the Coachella per-
was released in 1999, and was Eiffel formance.
st popular single. It's not particularly From Tupac we go to the Spice Girls because
d really kind of nonsensical, but that's that's totally a smooth transition. If you're not
we remember it. familiar with Wannabe, you're going to know at
itney, I remember when you were ever least one very distinctive lyric: "Yo, I'll tell you
l's role model. How the times have what I want, what I really, really want, so tell me
Hit Me Baby One More Time was what you want, what you really, really want!"
Spears' debut single, and the title track Super deep, I know. I'll let that sink in for a little
debut studio album, released in 1998. while. No lie, though, the only thing I know is
g was a global success, and apparently, that Victoria Beckham is Posh Spice, and she
f the best-selling singles of all time. It looks exactly the same as she did in 1996, when
ne of the many Britney Spears songs the song debuted as their first single.
ulated our childhood, with other honor- As far as I can remember, the Backstreet Boys
tions including Toxic and Oops I Did and 'NSYNC were rivals. They sounded the
same, so that didn't help differentiate them at
remember Aaron Carter, congratula- all, but they were different enough to warrant a
u deserve an award, because many slot on the playlist. Everybody is the first single
ly forgot of his existence. It's awful, from the Backstreet Boys' second international
ppens when stars fade into obscurity. album, and third from their debut U.S. album in
gently is still working on music, but 1997. BSB was also created in Florida, which
sted in Kimble County in '08. Hard to makes me think that they had a boy band factory
since in his I Want Candy video, he's we were unaware of. If you've seen moymoyp-
g with joy and candy canes and stuff. alaboy on YouTube, you may have come across
ristmas-themed video, don't question it. their lip-sync of the song, which is absolutely
in Dancing With the Stars, too, but we hilarious.
e about that. Finally, we have Aqua. You know this song.
t Candy is quite literally candy-pop It's burned into every corner of your brain, if
and peppy and filled with the prepu- not because of the inane lyrics, because of the
exuberance of a little Aaron Carter. annoyingly irritating voice that sings it. At some
, though, I couldn't tell it was a boy point, you have sung Barbie Girl, and there's
They had a girl talking on the phone in no point in denying it. Even if it was for purely
and it looked like she was talking, and ironic purposes. It was released in 1997 by a
,it was very confusing. Danish Norwegian dance-pop group, and topped
've seen TV in general, the chances the charts worldwide. Its best achievement is
uch This has aired is extremely high. that it's No. 32 on VHI's Most Awesomely Bad
he list is enormous, not including varia- Songs Ever countdown. That's pretty amazing,
parodies and looped clips of the cho- but kind of makes you wonder what the other
isting mainly of 'U can t touch this!' songs were.
was released in 1990, and has enjoyed So, with this lovely blast to the past, I'd like
me time in varying Billboard charts to say it's been a pleasure bringing you music.
he world. The song and catchphrases are Hopefully, I'll be able to do the same next
pop culture references, which is obvi- semester. Until next time ...
you've ever heard the famous 'Stop....
time!'
made headlines at Coachella recently, Jacket Playlist
se you didn't keep up with the news. A
iof the deceased rapper was projected Bve Bve Bve - *NSYNCENTTRTA1NXA1PMT
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