Which years of the 90s would you live in?

[Oliverlogan263]

1990-1993

1994-1996

1997-1999

[ManOnFire]

I voted B and I already grew up in those years lol. But specifically it would be from 1993 to 1997. I would say those were the absolute best years of my childhood. Life felt so beautiful then as a kid, the summers were so amazing, and television back then was a lot more wholesome.

Back then, TGIFriday nights were literally an event for families to get together and watch hours of sitcoms together, then on Saturday mornings you wake up with cartoons and mom making you breakfast. TV Guide existed back then, and every year they published the Fall Preview for shows coming back for their new seasons. There was Ghostwriter, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Walker: Texas Ranger and a lot of other good shows.

The summers were so bright and beautiful in a way that just don't seem the same now. Maybe because of global warming? A change in the frequency of energy in the air? Not sure, but back then there was a life in the air and the sun that was more pure and powerful.

I could go on but gonna just stop right here.

[TenderFantasy]

I think i'd do 1990-1993. I was 6 to 9 years old at those years. No real responsibility. Not had gotten through puberty and menstruation yet and being sexually attracted to boys to where it was actually a possibility that I could date them. They were safe in my head haha. I didn't have A/B sized breasts yet and I didn't have men staring at me and cat calling me! Lol. These were also the years we just came to America from the Phiilpines and we stayed with my mom's aunt for a year at her house for free. She was really nice like that. My dad stayed back and sold our four bedroom, three bath house, told the maids they were free to go and sold our two cars and sold me and my brother's toys and he joined us a year later in 1992. Basically my family uprooted and I loved witnessing it. I was still a baby (yes I call 6 to 9 years old a baby still!) and all I had to worry about was playig Barbie, eating what my mom or aunt made us, playing MORE Barbie, goingto school during the day and then watching T. V. after school while I waited for my neighborhood girl friend to ring my door bell (we moved away from my aunt after a year and bought a house in 1993 where I am living in now still) so that we could PLAY in the neighborhood park! It was such a fun, beautiful and innocent time for me! Loved it! !

[supercutebutt]

No gloryhole encounters yet, either. :)

[purplepoopy]

Oh, dearie me! The 90s, you say? Well, I'd have to say the early 90s, when Britpop was in its prime and them Spicey Girls was in the charts. While Americans were busy with their boy bands and pop divas, I was drinkin me tea and watching them Spice Girls. Sorry, Americans, but we colonized your eardrums and took back our country. Cheers, love!

[OlderAndWiser]

Q. Which years of the 90s would you live in?

A. The 1790's.

[LiamJHayden]

lol You certainly have the wisdom of a Founding Father.

[OlderAndWiser]

@LiamJHayden I appreciate your kind words!

[IMPRESIVE]

those were good times. the avg American had 8 kids

[OlderAndWiser]

@IMPRESIVE. . . and optimism!

[Sonorous]

Definitely the first few years of it. Closer to the 80's.

[KostasKouvalis]

I was born in 1992, so I lived through most of the 90s. But I don't really remember much before 1996. But I remember the boy band and Disney era very well. If I'm honest, I would have loved to been old enough to remember the first year of the 90s. When Yugoslavia had just broken apart and the region was in war. When the Rwanda Genocide began. And when Apartheid ended in South Africa and Mandela became president. And when Palau gained its independence from the U. S. I know not all those events are pretty, but I'm a fan a history and geo-politics buff, so I would have loved to experience the world changing like that. Oh, and the U. S. hosting the World Cup. I actually WAS already alive for most of those events, but I was too little to remember them.

[abc3643]

OMG, my God, that was a very bad decade for me. It began bad, got really good for a few months, then just got worse and worse and worse.

I thought the 1980s were bad enough that I thought the 1990s couldn't be worse. But, it went from like "rabid put bull attacking" bad to "Godzilla with diarrhea" bad.

If I had to go back to the 1990s, I would be from AUG 1990 to FEB 1991. Fuck the rest of it.

[abc3643]

Yeah, when I think of every single year in the 1990s, something rather shitty happened to me. Every single fucking year.

I played this song, "Eighties" (which is now 40 years old) at the very end of the 1980s thinking the 1980s were fucked with Reagan-Bush. Now, I look back longingly at life before 1987...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkum-hiZjKo

[FunkyMonkee]

`90 to `95. After that, she stopped fucking me and I feel like the rest of the decade we were together was a waste of my time because of it, and the fact that she started cheating on me. Had I known that was coming, I'd have broken up with her in early `96 instead of waiting `til I caught her cheating on me 5 years later.

[JayBones]

Damn. Let it go. That was a life time ago

[FunkyMonkee]

@JayBones Yeah but, it was a HUGE important relationship to me so, I tend to do a bit of trying to sort out what went wrong, especially since it was also a bit confusing.

[FunkyMonkee]

@JayBones To YOU, it was a lifetime ago, to me, it feels like it was only a few years ago.

[JayBones]

That's so sad. If I were you I'd have gotten professional help years ago. Maybe a hypnotist

[Malwi93]

@JayBones lmao. SHADE!

[JayBones]

@Malwi93 accidental shade. I was serious. I wouldn't want to live almost 40 years not getting over something. If I couldn't get over it I would pay someone to do it for me

[FunkyMonkee]

@JayBones I guess this comes with having a good memory.

[WhiteSteve]

1994-96 was the fuckin’ SWEET SPOT. What an absolute gift to be 15-17 in those years. Couldn’t draw it up any better.

[Malwi93]

do u remember Destinys Child lol were they big

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 They came out RIGHT before Y2K, I remember riding in my friend’s car with our girlfriends the first time I heard “Say My Name”, haha. So they dropped in ‘99 I think, but I think of them more as like 2000-2002, then Beyoncé broke out, got with Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland had a quick minute on her own, but it was just the Beyoncé show from there on out.

Sneakily the best song on the first Destiny’s Child album, although it’s tough to sing along with as a guy😂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16KLZhhmarQ

[Malwi93]

so they were not big in fact, i was just wondering if white people knew them back then lol

[Malwi93]

because here in Europe people know them from about "Survivor"

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 haha, nah, I’d say they were pretty big in general. Say My Name was huge. Survivor was huge. Bills, Bills, Bills was pretty big. I was in college at that time and knew a ton of white girls my age, and they all liked DC, as long as they were into R&B. There were like hippie chicks with dreads or rocker girls who listened to stuff like Korn and wore black lipstick, lmao, but as far as “basic” white girls went, DC was pretty popular, maybe not quite Britney/Christina popular, but still very popular. Solo Beyoncé blew up though, that’s when the whole Bey-hive thing started gathering momentum. Once all the “Irreplaceable” and “Single Ladies” songs started coming, she was a household name. I’d definitely say solo Beyoncé is bigger than Destiny’s Child as a group, but DC definitely was prominent on the music scene in the early 00s.

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 I’d say Survivor was their biggest hit because I think it was off their second album when they had been established for a while. It was also kind of a “you go, girl” feminist anthem, haha, so people really liked it. I wasn’t a huge fan of that song, but I liked Say My Name. I think I remember her doing “ ‘03 Bonnie & Clyde” with Jay-Z, and that’s when big time Beyoncé really started, in my mind

[Oliverlogan263]

What was it like seeing new music artists coming on the scene at that time also from the early 90s in the R&b genre like Jodeci, Mary J Blige, Tupac, Biggie, Mariah Carey, and Usher?

[Oliverlogan263]

And hip hop if you remember

[WhiteSteve]

I remember it all. I was at peak music consumption, I was ages 11-20 in the 90s, lined up perfectly.

I saw Biggie LIVE, bro. Small venue, and he just had Ready To Die, it was when he first came out, so I basically watched him perform that entire album because that was all the material he had. Unbelievable. Just wish I knew what I was seeing while I was seeing it, you know?

All that slow jam shit was what I was I young buck tryna get my whistle wet. Swiped my V-card to R. Kelly😂 Multiple songs, don’t get it twisted😂😂😂 But yeah, man, all of it was fresh and a brand new sound from the 80s rap we were used to. And the older generations didn’t have rap, so they just outright HATED IT, which made it even cooler to us😂 Like they were having congressional hearings over 2 Live Crew and NWA and Ice T, lmao. The adults were losing their minds, it was beautiful. It’s weird being my age now, because new rap only offends me because I don’t think it’s as good as older rap, in most cases, I’m not as into the mumble rap or drill or whatever is hot right now. I like that old LA gangsta rap and New York boom-bap, haha. Griselda is the only crew putting out much quality hip hop these days, in my eyes.

[Malwi93]

u saw Mariahs debut? were people blown the hell away by her abilities

[Oliverlogan263]

Wow that is so dope you got see biggie live man, that’s so cool. What about Tupac, even when he got on death row involved with suge knight and the beef happening with biggie with the east coast vs west coast beef with pac making hit em up

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 YES! Omg, I’ve been in love Mariah since like 7th grade😍😂 “Someday” was the first big single I remember hearing, and I remember we analyzed the song and music video in my music class back in junior high. When I was in 9th grade, if you had a girlfriend or boyfriend, “Hero” was almost definitely “your song”, haha. I remember slow dancing with girls to that when I was like 15, hahaha

[Malwi93]

but i mean were people like blown away by her vocals

[WhiteSteve]

I never saw 2Pac live, unfortunately. I only went to like two concerts in high school, but luckily Biggie was one of them. But I listened to the Me Against The World and Thug Life, Vol. 1 cassettes in my WalkMan ALL THE TIME. I was really big on Mobb Deep’s “Tha Infamous”, too. But yeah, the whole East-West beef was crazy, and then Pac got killed at the beginning of my senior year, and Biggie got got at the end of it. WILD. Also had Eazy E and Kurt Cobain go out earlier on in high school, so I was just there for all the major tragedies. Aaliyah and Left Eye didn’t die til was in college.

Hit ‘Em Up is a classic. I still have a couple of friends who when I arrive to meet them they go “grab ya Glocks when you see Tupaaaacccc…. call the cops when you see Tupaaaaacccc!!!”😂

[Malwi93]

i always wondered how Mobb Deep went mainstream. i mean their music is completely dark/street etc

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 oh yeah, that “whistle pitch” she can hit, I hadn’t heard anything like it. I think Minnie Ripperton could hit it too, but she was before my time and died young, so I didn’t really know about her yet. But yeah, Mariah hit long extended “Soooommmmeeee-DAYYYYYYYY” at the end, and just hit the whistle on the whole last syllable and held it a pretty long time, and we were all just like…🤯🤯🤯

[Malwi93]

i efffing loved eye for an eye

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 @3:44 Holy SMOKES

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWfSUWVP2I

Just had never heard anyone do that before, absolutely blew me away

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 and that dance move the kids in the hallway are doing right after that…. that was one of my go-to moves😂😂😂

[Malwi93]

lol i dance like that in the club

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 Yoooooooo, Eye For An Eye!!! Me too! Anyone could’ve said “Shook Ones, Pt. 2”, but you’re a real one for loving Eye For An Eye🫡 Nas’ verse, oh my lord…”Madman, my sanity is goin’ like a hourglass, gun in my bad hand I sliced tryna bag grams”🔥🔥🔥 Plus Raekwon? GOLD.

And yeah, I was surprised the got radio play too, literally every song was gutter, nothing poppy about them

[Malwi93]

nope its Eye for an Eye, because the wordplay there is crazy

[Malwi93]

and yup Nas verse is also my fav...

[WhiteSteve]

@Malwi93 +1,000,000 Cool Points👊😎

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Same as I did, basically 1997-1999

because I was only alive in 1996 for 1 month.

[DreamLife7]

The entire 90s bring it back. Dangelo brown sugar, Mya-moving on, Monica, dru hill, 112, public announcement, donnel jones
I like the 2000s though the group next and ideal.

[DizzyDesii]

I prefer the 2000s. I dont remember much from my toddler years in the 90s

[DreamLife7]

Yep remember the group ideal and next?

[DizzyDesii]

@DreamLife7 i know NEXT. As for Ideal, i know a song but never knew their name

[ChiTown33]

You missed out.

[DreamLife7]

Ideals popular song is ,"whatever".

[CoolCatMar1]

I wish i was born in 90's

[getwiththepg]

94-96 had a slew of great albums released. 94-95 probably being the best. Then ‘98 cause it also was a great year & the year I was born in (my age on here is advanced one)

[Malwi93]

Biggie is not the reason why I would wanna live in the 90s lmao

[Malwi93]

it would be the lack of those little freaking phones everyhwere

[Oliverlogan263]

How about when people used beepers and had brick phones?

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I prefer the early 1990s.

[AviatorTom]

I lived through all of them. Not sure I'd want go do it again.

[Joshydavid25]

I from 93 and onward and probably only vaguely remember 97 and onward..

[bradley142]

all the 90s was amazing wished we could go back to that

[Filthy_Immigrant]

wow this questions makes me feel so damn lucky that I got to live all those years!

[TenderFantasy]

Me too.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I did live in the 90’s lol

[Oliverlogan263]

What was life like to live in the 90s and what was your favorite year from that decade?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Idyllic, I lived in a suburb with a bunch of other kids. I remember a lot of playing, birthday parties, and exploring the neighborhood

[EnglishArtsteacher]

There is no "would" about it.

I was born in 1990. I lived in all ten of them.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I mean, I was born in 1999, so some of the stuff I probably grew up with, as it really isn't that far off.

[Nikki1989]

I grew up in the 90s and that was bad enough.

[Oliverlogan263]

Why?

[Nikki1989]

Worst decade ever for music, not that the music industry is any better these days.

[Oliverlogan263]

Really?

[TenderFantasy]

How can you say it was the worst, when men had more romance in them and I actually felt like they LOVED their woman? Now it's just wha'ts the shape of your booty and when are you gonna twerk and show me some tits and ass, etc etc etc. mixed with autotune from the 2000's lol. Granted I do like a couple songs by John Legend and Bruno Mars but I just feel that real talent is harder to come by these days.

[Carly2005]

Mid 90s i enjoy The Spice Girls, Nada Surf, LeAnn Rimes

[rosemilk]

i already lived in these lmao

[Oliverlogan263]

What would you say the 90s were like and favorite years from that decade? Did you witness stats of that time come up like Mariah Carey, Tupac, TLC, Mary J Blige, Jodeci, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, and many more?

[rosemilk]

more like backstreet boys..

[NathanDavis]

I lived through all of them

[Oliverlogan263]

What was it like in the 90s where people had pagers, used brick phones, and different fashion styles back then?

[NathanDavis]

well... I was a kid, so I didn't pay much attention to that in specific, lol

but I can tell you one thing in specific that I remember... although a lot of the hits from Michael Jackson were early/mid/late 80's... a lot of this hit songs were still a thing all through the 90's at birthday parties and stuff... and in Mexico too

same with Michael Jordan, during most of the 90's his fame and impact went all the way to Mexico... you could actually see kids wearing his jersey at SOCCER and football games, baseball... lmao

[82lynx]

I’ve already been through the 90s, end to end. That plus not being one of the “cool” guys then or now makes such a plan moot for me. 😎

[PeachyPie93]

The later years were better so '97 to '99

[LemonJuicee]

1997-1999 because a lot of shows I liked as a kid aired during that time, even though I was born in 2002 lmao

[Likes2drive]

1994-1996 was pretty good and stress free , no kids or wife yet but now an ex wife

[serious_miss419]

I lived through all of them and even had to pay for a text when it was a typo error

[4ngelic]

late 90s for the whole y2k stuff

[DJB72]

Once was enough thanks

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

1990-1993

[exitseven]

The late 90s. We were in the tech revolution

[Danny_dan92]

All of them, my life was simple af back then 😂

[RedInnocent68]

To be fair, I lived through all of them already.

[deus_ex_sisyphus]

Early 1990s, when grunge hit mainstream

[Account]

Some of us are old Oliver!

[ChiTown33]

96,97,98 the Chicago Bulls second 3peat.

[Dongie]

As young as I can get