It’s a good time to be a nostalgic millennial
Backstreet boys play closed windows.
Lindsay Lohan plays in a new film “Freaky Friday”.
And the old co-stars of “Dawson’s Creek” and Exes Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson were recently spotted by turning a new project in New York.
No, this is not the early 2000s – but millennials have the impression that they SO back.
As the proverb says, which is ancient often becomes new again. And millennials, generally defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid -1990s, are now at a time of their lives when their generational nostalgia is in the foreground.
This recent increase in POP culture focused on generation is “the next level of escape” for the generation, said Kate Kennedy, author of “One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Saits, Fangirls and adapts”.
“It makes us at a time when our biggest concern was to queue for a CD, not if we would be able to allow ourselves a house,” said Kennedy.
In the sphere of Las Vegas, this feeling was taken up by thousands of spectators from Backstreet Boys, many wearing entirely white clothes in tribute to the group’s “Millennium” album, singing with successes like “Drowning”. Those who could not attend have watched the concerts take place on Tiktok – where some videos have raised millions of views.
“It healed more from my childhood in 1.5 hours than any therapist,” wrote a user of Tiktok in the legend of his video of the show.
“I have the impression of traveling in time,” wrote another creator in the text of their concert video. “To the sphere, listening to Backstreet Boys, carrying an entirely white outfit of the 90s, taking Jelll-O.”
Kennedy, who went to the Backstreet Boys concert last weekend, described nostalgia as a “connective tissue that makes people less alone and less judged towards themselves, because others like what they like too”.
“I think we are a more lonely and isolated generation in adulthood that we have never planned that we would be in our young people,” she said, adding that millennials “ride two very different eras in terms of technology and information”.
Generations “can be difficult on each other online,” noted Kennedy. But now, “after several years of the grimace, or” cheugy “, we, the millennials, we are leaning.”
The desire for the millennium era even crossed the generational lines. General Zers, who once made fun of the millennium culture, now. On Tiktok, hundreds of users have recently published tributes to everything related to the millennium – from Tumblr and Skinny Jeans to optimistic music, Barack Obama and, perhaps more, the HBO “Girls” television series.
Perhaps feeling this enthusiasm, a series of artists from the early 2000s turned under the spotlight. Nelly, Creed and The All -American rejection – All the staples of the late 90s and the first aughts – launched tours.
Beyoncé brought her group’s comrade from Destiny’s Child Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland on stage for her latest show “Cowboy Carter” in Las Vegas last weekend, marking the group’s first meeting in seven years.
Hollywood also jumps on the trend. The studios continue from the consequences, prequelles and fallout in green light based on beloved titles from the 90s and 2000s.
The plans of Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt by turning the rest of the 2006 hit “The Devil Wears Prada” in New York caused a frenzy. Online fans analyze the haute couture looks of the actors and others would have made up to see the stars in person when they shoot, according to Variety.
“Happy Gilmore 2” by Adam Sandler, which was released almost 30 years after the 1996 film, made its debut at 46.7 million views on Netflix, making it the biggest opening of American film from all time.
