March
2006
You know what’s frightening?
Back in the ’90s when I used to go to the disco, this guy wouldn’t have gotten the blink of an eye. Actually he might have scored with some Snap! loving chick. The fashions of those years still make me cringe.
There were three main groups which hated each other’s guts: the rockers, the rappers and the Depeche Mode fans (aka “Depesari” here in Ro). The rockers, to which I belonged, sported long hair, angry facial expressions, denim or leather jackets, black T-Shirts, lots of chains and the names of their favourite bands on their jeans, written with marker (or ballpen, but that wasn’t so cool). They listened to bands varying from Guns N’Roses, Metallica, Nirvana, Skid Row (on the softer side) to Sepultura and Cannibal Corpse (on the angrier side). They moshed, headbanged and drank like coyotes and tended to get wasted by midnight.
The rappers listened to Snap!, Vanilla Ice (oh yes, Vanilla Ice. He was BIG), MC Hammer and Dr.Alban. They wore extra-large pants with the crotch part dangling somewhere around their knees (like you could fool someone you had jewels that big), jackets 5 sizes over the fitting one, partially shaved eyebrows and flattop hair (if you wanted to be extra-cool, you shaved patterns in the laterals and back of it). And they danced mostly like the kid in the video.
As for the Depeche Mode fans? They were somewhere in the middle. Simple black or white t-shirts, sporting the image of the band or a rose . They listened to DM, The Cure and a various assortment of new-wave bands. Tended to keep a lower profile and were probably the ancestors of the goth of today. That’s all I know about them.
Sounds identical to 80s & 90s America.