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Post by fusefan on Apr 3, 2020 7:14:26 GMT 10
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 3, 2020 8:39:34 GMT 10
The "bling" aesthetic is one of the reasons as to why I don't like the Mid 2000s as a cultural era. It just seems very materialistic and shallow to me, but not in the same sense that the core of the 1980s were. I guess it doesn't really help that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were making headlines during the era for all the wrong reasons either, I just can't lose that association from 2004-2006 as years.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 3, 2020 8:45:56 GMT 10
The "bling" aesthetic is one of the reasons as to why I don't like the Mid 2000s as a cultural era. It just seems very materialistic and shallow to me, but not in the same sense that the core of the 1980s were. I guess it doesn't really help that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were making headlines during the era for all the wrong reasons either, I just can't lose that association from 2004-2006 as years. which is ironic because 80s fashion came back during the mid 00s, I think a better name for this should be Bling Bling because that literally what the aesthetic is. That era was super shallow but I am biased because it was forming when I was a teenager and it easily makes my top 3 pop culture eras of all time.
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Post by Telso on Apr 3, 2020 9:16:07 GMT 10
The "bling" aesthetic is one of the reasons as to why I don't like the Mid 2000s as a cultural era.. At least it led to the cute bedazzling trend 
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Post by smartboi on Apr 3, 2020 10:49:36 GMT 10
This era gives me Vietnam flash backs to sweatpants with "JUCY" on the ass and bedazzled phones like Telso mentioned. Something about the fashion of that era just seems so sleazy to me. It doesn't help that emo and scene kids were on the rise too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 10:50:43 GMT 10
The "bling" aesthetic is one of the reasons as to why I don't like the Mid 2000s as a cultural era. It just seems very materialistic and shallow to me, but not in the same sense that the core of the 1980s were. I guess it doesn't really help that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were making headlines during the era for all the wrong reasons either, I just can't lose that association from 2004-2006 as years. Which is why late 2006 to 2009 are far superior. Seems like everyone was finally coming back down to earth then. Also Anna Nicole Smith had just died, maybe that made celeb culture seem kinda long in the tooth.
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Post by fusefan on Apr 3, 2020 11:25:07 GMT 10
The "bling" aesthetic is one of the reasons as to why I don't like the Mid 2000s as a cultural era. It just seems very materialistic and shallow to me, but not in the same sense that the core of the 1980s were. I guess it doesn't really help that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were making headlines during the era for all the wrong reasons either, I just can't lose that association from 2004-2006 as years. Don’t forget how huge the Simpson sisters were at this time too. It seems like when OK magazine started in the US in 2005, Jessica Simpson was on nearly every cover. I remember TMZ was huge at this time. Gawker use to have a “Stalker” section on their website where people pinned celebrity sightings on a map. This is also when TV guide became a big glossy magazine with more of a focus on celebrities. Not to mention the epitome of cool back then was an H2 hummer or an Escalade with spinners. The recession quickly put an end to most of this stuff.
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Post by fusefan on Apr 14, 2020 1:18:26 GMT 10
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Post by John Titor on Apr 14, 2020 3:46:23 GMT 10
I feel like this is just a name change because McBling never caught on lol Its virtually the same thing, From 2001 - mid 2004 the y2k style morphed into gothic fonts and bling fashion, I get what and why it's named that but its pretty much the same thing.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Apr 14, 2020 9:54:59 GMT 10
Never really liked the whole bling aesthetic to be honest, it just seemed so shallow, it was the dominant aesthetic from 2002 - 2006. The aesthetic really reflects the materialism at the time from 2002/2003 - 2008.
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Post by broadstreet223 on Apr 14, 2020 23:35:40 GMT 10
Reminds me more of the 90s instead..
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Post by Telso on Apr 15, 2020 19:26:30 GMT 10
Reminds me more of the 90s instead.. Weird because this thing is as anti-90s as it can get
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Post by John Titor on Apr 16, 2020 3:47:36 GMT 10
Reminds me more of the 90s instead.. Weird because this thing is as anti-90s as it can get exactly
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