Cinnie said:

Obviously everyone ate it up too so it must have been somewhat theraputic, but I swear I need therapy NOW (this thread ) because of the sickness of that era.

Cinnie said:

Yeah. Especially being 8 yrs old when crazysexycool came out

I had to sneak and listen to certain songs..my mom wasnt having that.

DanceWme said:

For real, I remember my stomach turning when I first heard the whole album.

Cinnie said:

And Prince didnt make it any better

DanceWme said:

How weird was he back then. Subtitling his album 1958-1993!

Cinnie said:

the 90s were so suicidal

Cinnie said:

Cinnie said:

And this basically sums up the entire image, sound, and attitude of the 90s I think.

Don't get me started on freaking Pearl Jam.



http://www.youtube.com/wa...uc-p8fbyEM

Another dark album from the 90s (surprise, surprise )

For real, I feel somewhat mentally scarred from the barrage of shocking images and lurid lyrics in that era of mainstream media. Have we recovered?

I liked the 90's, but they were depressing compared to the 70's and 80's. It's no wonder that some of the bubbly feel-good artists of 80's music didn't survive the decade. What about all the dance and europop music in the 90's? That stuff was really uplifting and feel-good music at least

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Cinnie said:

Remember, this was also the time prince went by that symbol. Everyone was going bonkers in the 90s.

I'm a loser baby
So why don't you kill me?



AN AWFUL BIG HIT IN THE 1990S!

"I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here"
Radiohead

Cinnie said:

I REALLY wish TLC had done more albums in the vein of their first one!
That CD was and sometimes still is my life!

O never looked at the 90s as depressing but I am heavily into NIN and Nirvana right now and that stuff was fucked up. I was listening to a lot of R&B fluff then and really aside from Mary's My Life, I don't remember too much depressing R&B.

the 1990s gave us some of the cheesiest, most over-produced, color-by-numbers pop music ever! Back before everybody had to be tough and collaborate with a rapper

Whats depressing about that

You forgot Madonna who went from "Cherish" and "True Blue" to "Erotica" and "Bad Girl". Her videos and imagery got pretty depressing at that time too. Things didn't pick up much with BS (how appropriate those initials are), Evita, and ROL either.

Lothan said:

Maybe not too much depressing R&B, but it definitely became increasingly lurid:




I think these were about as healthy as a 2 Live Crew record.

Cinnie said:

Hate the first, love the second. I am really trying to understand why R&B turned into "nothing but fucking" music.

midnightmover said:

Her too.

Lothan said:

Thank the 1990s.

Lest us not forget, Ministry

http://www.youtube.com/wa...2UA-7Q3ncU

or, Prodigy

http://www.youtube.com/wa...kbW4ibIF8U

Lothan said:

Is it theraputic?
Those acts can change a normal mood into a dark one for me, faster than you can say "Head Like A Hole".


BE GONE DEPRESSING 90S SHIT

Whilst I agree with what y'all are saying I have to say I don't like the other extreme either. Take a look at Whitney videos like "How Will I Know" or "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and you'll see a good example of the other extreme. The 80s was filled with that kind of vacuous fluff. Hell, I still haven't gotten over Stock Aitken and Waterman. And don't even get me started on buffoons like Motley Crue.

thekidsgirl said:

I'm sorry, but that time was no earlier than 1991