Grease was on TV this afternoon. I started thinking...
Grease (the musical) debuted in 1971 and was set in 1959.
Twelve years.
Let's say someone wanted to make a nostalgic musical that looks back twelve years... from NOW.
That's right, folks. That musical would have to be set in 2000.
You read that correctly... 2000.
Whoa.
Of course, being twenty-nine, I haven't the benefit of having lived through both eras, but it seems to me that, culturally speaking, the Western world became more of a different place from 1959-1971 than it did from 2000-2012.
I mean, I was sitting there watching the movie (granted, it came out in '78, but still) and I thought to myself, "my God... all this sock-hop stuff must have seemed sooooo distant to someone in 1978. Or 1971, even..."
But, I think about 2000, and... I just don't things have changed quite as much. Sure, we all have cellphones and DVDs and iPods, and facebooks, and 9/11 happened... but still- it doesn't seem like a completely different world. I can watch an episode of Friends, and it mostly seems like it could be set in the present day.
I don't know.. Maybe I'm crazy, or maybe I'm behind the times, or maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy. Maybe I'll change my mind when I see kids at school wearing N*Sync shirts and carrying pagers...
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stealign my NSync idea?? lol [Love Bi-Polar]
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5/29/2012 12:09:23 AM
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Dude. Mind blown. I didn't even think about it that way before, and now I can't stop? [editingthefuture]
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5/29/2012 1:46:17 AM
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You know, I was just looking thru my high school yearbook tonight. I'd run in to someone who said "Why aren't we facebook friends?" I couldn't remember who the hell they were, which was partly the reason, but also b/c I don't have a facebook. I'm glad I don't have one so I don't have to pretend to be friends with someone I can't remember. [TheDiva]
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5/29/2012 4:33:04 AM
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Anyway, besides the fact that we looked SO young and tan (all the pics were taken in Sept.), I agree, things haven't changed TOO much. My best friend had a pager, everyone drove a Honda Civic and according to the survey on page 122, we loved Outkast and burned CDs were the way to go. Girls wore genie slippers and boys wore sports jerseys. There was no YouTube, Napster was still kind [TheDiva]
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5/29/2012 4:36:33 AM
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of a big deal and we apparently said things like "What's realli hood" and "Dat's what's up". I'm quoting page 135 there.
I think looking at Can't Hardly Wait would give us a good idea as to how much things have changed. I mean, look at Clueless...that movie is like a time capsule as it CHANGED how we dressed. Pretty crazy =) [TheDiva]
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5/29/2012 4:39:24 AM
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There was so much political and social upheaval in the 1960's that I think to a certain extent you're right. And a lot of that culture has stayed with us as opposed to be relegated to a strictly youth movement. There have always been bands that I could listen to with my parents and issues that we agreed on, which was less true then. [Harley Quinn]
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5/29/2012 8:36:33 AM
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I actually had a couple of NSync t-shirts back in the day. :-X [Empyrean]
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5/29/2012 12:44:08 PM
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Nah, I dont think you are off base here, I was thinking the same thing... I mean, if you watch BAck to the Future, its still seems pretty current too. LOL
Of course vietnam happened between 59 and 78 and the hippie movement and the civil rights movement and all that good stuff... in the 2000's what happened? Technology advances... which well.. it still is but its not as exciting as a movement [KPinK]
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5/29/2012 3:17:59 PM
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Haha ugh- we have no changes in culture anymore it's sad.
RYN: Yea- I'm allergic, had a bad reaction a week or so ago. TRY THE SHAKE- IT ROCKS! [Jubaliee]
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5/29/2012 4:05:02 PM
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RYN: Thank you!! Yes a 27" iMac it is! I love it. And I will most certainly post pictures from Strawberry Hill, I've wanted to go for years so I'm pumped! [Out Of Context]
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5/29/2012 4:41:28 PM
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No, I'm totally with you on that! I think the main "oh my god"-provoking element would be the technology—like the size of cell phones and TVs, and how games/computer programs looked.
ryn;; Oh, yes. Also, everything I ate in Vegas apparently stayed there, too. [aglow]
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5/29/2012 5:55:04 PM
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I had a similar moment working with a twenty-year old at my last job. We had a huge argument about boot cut jeans. [Grecian Charlie]
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5/29/2012 5:55:30 PM
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I agree that nothing's really changed except who's popular music-wise and technology... [XTina]
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5/29/2012 10:09:53 PM
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