lyricalangel
Sitting For The Newtons
Logan's love-bunny
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Post by lyricalangel on May 27, 2008 17:49:59 GMT -5
^Pat Benatar is one of my all-time favorite singers.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 27, 2008 22:37:13 GMT -5
I can see them listening to the boy bands of the late 90s. Definitely. Bands like the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync. I think Mary Anne would, at least.
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Post by lionessblack on May 27, 2008 22:41:16 GMT -5
Yeah, Mary Anne would love boy bands, and she'd go for one of the lesser-loved guys. She wouldn't be all about Justin Timberlake or Nick Carter, she'd like Lance (good luck, MA) or Howie.
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Post by greer on May 29, 2008 3:13:00 GMT -5
My brother and I got into a big early/mid 90s nostalgia kick today in the car, and I realized just how different things are for kids today. when I was my sister's age (8), I was watching Beavis and Butthead marathons and listening to Nirvana. But at the same time, I was still more innocent than she is, despite the fact that my stepmother carefully monitors everything that she watches and listens to and everything that she watches and listens to was specially created for 8-year-olds. In the years you're asking about I had shoeboxes full of cassette tapes, which were mixes I made by recording my favorite songs off the radio.
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Post by lionessblack on May 29, 2008 11:51:35 GMT -5
Oh, I had those mix tapes, too. And then I'd listen to them in my walkman. I wasn't allowed to watch Beavis and Butthead. Or the Simpsons. The Simpsons one is really ironic because nowadays, it's one of the few "family" shows left, lol. But my mom still doesn't like it. But she can't really stop us now, my sister and I are huge Family Guy fans, and she hates it (my dad loves it, though). I grew up pretty naive, but until from about age 6-12, my household only listened to Christian music, and pretty much immerses ourselves in the Christian bubble. I think we're a lot more balanced, now. But, yeah, when I started listening to mainstream music, I totally recorded everything off the radio onto blank tapes.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 29, 2008 14:21:10 GMT -5
I wasn't allowed to see The Simpsons either! I remember being at home with my mom in the afternoon one day and her telling me I shouldn't watch it and to put on "Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers" instead. I had a ton of mixtapes as well, with songs recorded off the radio. Good times
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nothingtolose18
Sitting For The Johanssens
Mal / Sam / Price / Ben
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Post by nothingtolose18 on May 29, 2008 17:21:11 GMT -5
I was always allowed to watch The Simpsons, because my mom knew nothing about it - we didn't have cable, so I used to watch it at my grandmother's house, and she didn't know anything about the show. Then someone told her 'You let her watch that show?' The person told her that it had swearing and sexual references and so that was the end of me watching The Simpsons for a few years, lol. Back in the day, I didn't really like much music, but then I started getting into it, and I really liked Billy Ray Cyrus, ha ha! For a while he was my favorite singer. Until the Spice Girls and Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys and everyone came out. My, how I loved the Spice Girls! And I remember having dances made up for both the Spice Girls songs and Britney Spears songs. I can still remember practicing those dances with my friend outside over the summer. Ah, good times indeed!
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Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on May 30, 2008 8:23:50 GMT -5
I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons either. One holiday, everyone was over at my aunt's house and all my cousin's started watching it. My parents made me go sit in another room alone. It was pretty embarrassing. I was never really into Beavis and Butthead or anything on MTV really. Just wasn't my thing.
I remember sitting in front of my tape deck for long periods of time waiting for a certain song to play you could hit the record button. And then figuring out that you should actually keep record on, and pause it so that you don't get those few seconds when the tape is figuring itself out. lol. I'm sure I have a shoebox of mix tapes around here somewhere. ;D
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blossom114
Sitting For The Papadakis's
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Post by blossom114 on May 30, 2008 14:21:11 GMT -5
My dad's the one that started me onto the Simpsons... he loves the show which is kind of ironic because he's really old fashioned. OF course I was in my late teens before i really started watching it and then I could get a lot of the humor. I didn't really watch it when it first came out.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 30, 2008 18:09:29 GMT -5
The only time my mom ever censored anything I watched was if sex was in a movie. Like as soon a naked boob appeared she'd hit the fast forward button. But blood and violent stuff were ok, apparently. She didn't care what I watched on TV.
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Post by lionessblack on May 30, 2008 23:45:47 GMT -5
I had see all three (as there were only three at that point) Lethal Weapon movies before I was like nine. And I'd watched them on HBO. I'm not sure HOW in the world the world my mother let me watch those, with the amount of filthy language in it.
But, like, my mom would fast forward through the part in A League of Their Own when Jimmy prays aloud before the game. When I watched the movie on my own, a few years later, I didn't find the prayer to be THAT offensive, and probably wouldn't have even understood it in 1994.
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Post by greer on May 30, 2008 23:51:16 GMT -5
what's the prayer?
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Post by lionessblack on May 31, 2008 15:38:37 GMT -5
I can't remember it word-for-word, I actually haven't watched the movie in whole in a couple of years, but it's before the big game, and Jimmy goes on about performing well in the game, and thanking God for getting them that far, and then he adds something about a waitress he had met years ago puts "and I know she knew you, too, because she was crying your name all night". Or something like that. I think, at 8 or 9, it would have gone over my head. But it always sticks out to me, that my mom muted it if we were watching it on tv or fast forwarded it on a video.
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Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on May 31, 2008 19:27:24 GMT -5
The whole movie on on Youtube, and I was trying to find that clip and I couldn't!
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Sept 13, 2008 13:22:46 GMT -5
In Stacey vs. the Baby Sitters Club, they talked about playing house music, and I know dance music was huge then. But Robert liked Grunge, so he was probably into Nirvana, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Blind Melon etc.
In Kristy & the Dirty Diapers, one of them mentioned liking r&b/pop, we're talking about 1994/1995 since most of the books are usually written a year before they are released, so I would think they were talking about Boyz II Men, TLC, All For One, Brandy and those artists.
but in most cases, they were all talking about oldies, including Abby listening to Aretha Franklin, so it seemed like they had flexible taste overall.
There is a karen book where charlie played a michael jackson tape in the early 90's, Karen's Goodbye I think, and some of the Pikes singing We Are the World in Poor Mallory.
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