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The old man's long-term reign of Six Flags-related terror began back in 2004, when he rolled his child-catcher bus into a quiet neighborhood and danced maniacally until he had successfully stolen multiple kids. The whole thing ends up looking a lot like what would happen if \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxgYYfIooc\">\u003cem>The Shining'\u003c/em>s Delbert Grady\u003c/a> escaped the Overlook Hotel and headed straight for suburbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bvgpg7yig\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it's not even the mascot that's scary, it's the physical product. After she stopped being Crystal on \u003cem>Dynasty\u003c/em>, Linda Evans got roped into endorsing a beauty product called \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Rejuvenique-RJV10KIT-Facial-Toning-Mask/dp/B00005JHWB\">Rejuvenique\u003c/a>, which sends \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">electric shocks\u003c/span> \"pulses\" into the face of the wearer, in the pursuit of tighter skin. Not only does it sound like a torture device, but aesthetically it also resembles a combination of Jason Voorhees and one of the stabby intruders from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/\">\u003cem>The Strangers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (Sidenote: If your family has angered you recently and you fancy getting back at them, you can still find \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/i/264150847259?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=264150847259&targetid=483914779430&device=c&adtype=pla&googleloc=9031945&poi=&campaignid=1497326117&adgroupid=60666402627&rlsatarget=pla-483914779430&abcId=1139446&merchantid=114729115&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8CVqeaU4wIVSh6tBh0Z0w3UEAQYAyABEgIjm_D_BwE\">these on eBay\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcYVh-W14E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, this all suggests that nightmare-inducing commercials are a relatively recent invention, but sheer terror has been a part of the TV realm since the medium was invented. Take a look at this 1953 ad for Sugar Rice Krinkles, consider the fact that Stephen King was around six when this was in rotation, then wonder no more about where the inspiration for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)\">\u003cem>It\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came from. (In case you've forgotten, the character of Georgie Denbrough is also six when he's killed by the evil clown in that novel. Coincidence?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3094hyz-K9Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly—and as much as I'm sure we'd all like to give these advertisers the benefit of the doubt—it's possible that the horror influence can also work the other way around. A full two years AFTER \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em> aired its legendary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109055/the-10-best-twilight-zone-episodes-to-watch-before-jordan-peeles-reboot\">\"Living Doll\"\u003c/a> episode (in which a doll named Talky Tina exacts murderous revenge), Mattel released Baby Secret—a doll that speaks exclusively in whispers, wants to hang out when everyone else is asleep and sounds like it's saying \"I want to kill you.\" Take it away, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle_(film)\">Annabelle\u003c/a> the First!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1xtnnMr2c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case all of this has left you feeling disturbed and on edge, this last clip is intended to make you feel better. Because, sure, while massive heads and animated fruit and strange old men doing the running man are bad, pray for the children of Japan who had to watch on in horror for years as this dog did strange things with human ears, doll heads, other animals and what appear to be ping pong paddles, in a series of commercials that culminate in the dog becoming a red-eyed flying half-alien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6ax9nhHUE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See? It could be worse!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The most sadistic moments in advertising history, brought together to bring back your childhood nightmares.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562719619,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":1015},"headData":{"title":"The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood | KQED","description":"The most sadistic moments in advertising history, brought together to bring back your childhood nightmares.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112467 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112467","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/10/the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood/","disqusTitle":"The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood","path":"/pop/112467/the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Recently, for reasons that remain unclear, that weird Quizno's Subs commercial from 2004 started trending on Twitter. If you were alive and awake that year, you definitely remember this:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/aZrks-BPeLQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/aZrks-BPeLQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Some hailed the singing \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2004/02/the-singing-quiznos-rodents-explained.html\">Spongmonkeys\u003c/a> (I didn't make that up; that's honestly what the floating tooth monsters were called) as trend-setters for future surreal ad campaigns. Others relived the confusion they felt the first time they saw the ad. And a surprisingly high number of people expressed abject fear.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1140466088452349952"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1140487826359902209"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the only time a commercial has unintentionally scared the bejesus out of kids. When I was a child, Tefal—a British range of household electrical items—insisted on putting men with oversized heads in all of their commercials. Their large craniums were supposed to imply a greater degree of intelligence, but all they achieved in my house was giving me and my sister nightmares for years. Was it the grotesquely long skulls that scared us? The creepy multi-tasking? Or the glaring lack of female egg-heads? It doesn't really matter. This advert will never not be horrifying.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2r7XfhTKRMw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2r7XfhTKRMw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Kids in the '90s were subjected to similarly horrific head aberrations via Fruit Gushers commercials. The entire series (and it really feels like there were about fifty) evoked a \u003ca href=\"https://roalddahl.fandom.com/wiki/Violet_Beauregarde\">Violet Beauregardean\u003c/a> nightmare—children eating the wrong kind of candy and paying the price, suffering immediate physical \u003cem>and\u003c/em> vocal transformations. This plays out more like a PSA than an ad. Frankly, the banana alone is more terrifying than the entire \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel_(2005_film)\">\u003cem>Hostel\u003c/em> franchise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gyzt3Q05Ris'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gyzt3Q05Ris'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>There is clearly something unfathomably difficult about conveying the taste of fruit that drives advertisers to bizarre lengths. The Sprite commercial below portrays a blindfolded human being subjected to physical experiments, something akin to water torture and, apparently, hallucinogens. Its tagline? \"Don't worry. It will only affect your brain.\" Pity the parents who had to explain every bedtime that actually, no, a sexy tennis player wasn't going to come and immobilize them with saran wrap at 4 am.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xrv8-wsf8qo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xrv8-wsf8qo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Remarkably, making fruit freaky has been a staple of American advertising for decades. The California Raisins might have sparked an \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_California_Raisin_Show\">entire TV show\u003c/a> and a giant pile of merch, but when you get down to it, there was always something rather unsettling about them. In the clip below, are they worshipping at the feet of a Sun-Maid overlord? Or harassing a woman who's locked in an attic, her smile frozen into a \u003cem>Stepford Wives\u003c/em> grimace to placate them? It's impossible to tell because everyone involved has hollow dead eyes. I am definitely no closer to wanting to eat grapes of sadness.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9hnLVmgfAZA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9hnLVmgfAZA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you want to find unchecked, definitely occurring harassment in commercial-land though, look no further than Mr. Six. The old man's long-term reign of Six Flags-related terror began back in 2004, when he rolled his child-catcher bus into a quiet neighborhood and danced maniacally until he had successfully stolen multiple kids. The whole thing ends up looking a lot like what would happen if \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxgYYfIooc\">\u003cem>The Shining'\u003c/em>s Delbert Grady\u003c/a> escaped the Overlook Hotel and headed straight for suburbia.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/l0bvgpg7yig'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l0bvgpg7yig'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Sometimes, it's not even the mascot that's scary, it's the physical product. After she stopped being Crystal on \u003cem>Dynasty\u003c/em>, Linda Evans got roped into endorsing a beauty product called \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Rejuvenique-RJV10KIT-Facial-Toning-Mask/dp/B00005JHWB\">Rejuvenique\u003c/a>, which sends \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">electric shocks\u003c/span> \"pulses\" into the face of the wearer, in the pursuit of tighter skin. Not only does it sound like a torture device, but aesthetically it also resembles a combination of Jason Voorhees and one of the stabby intruders from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/\">\u003cem>The Strangers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (Sidenote: If your family has angered you recently and you fancy getting back at them, you can still find \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/i/264150847259?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=264150847259&targetid=483914779430&device=c&adtype=pla&googleloc=9031945&poi=&campaignid=1497326117&adgroupid=60666402627&rlsatarget=pla-483914779430&abcId=1139446&merchantid=114729115&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8CVqeaU4wIVSh6tBh0Z0w3UEAQYAyABEgIjm_D_BwE\">these on eBay\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SXcYVh-W14E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SXcYVh-W14E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>On the surface, this all suggests that nightmare-inducing commercials are a relatively recent invention, but sheer terror has been a part of the TV realm since the medium was invented. Take a look at this 1953 ad for Sugar Rice Krinkles, consider the fact that Stephen King was around six when this was in rotation, then wonder no more about where the inspiration for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)\">\u003cem>It\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came from. (In case you've forgotten, the character of Georgie Denbrough is also six when he's killed by the evil clown in that novel. Coincidence?)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3094hyz-K9Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3094hyz-K9Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Amazingly—and as much as I'm sure we'd all like to give these advertisers the benefit of the doubt—it's possible that the horror influence can also work the other way around. A full two years AFTER \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em> aired its legendary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109055/the-10-best-twilight-zone-episodes-to-watch-before-jordan-peeles-reboot\">\"Living Doll\"\u003c/a> episode (in which a doll named Talky Tina exacts murderous revenge), Mattel released Baby Secret—a doll that speaks exclusively in whispers, wants to hang out when everyone else is asleep and sounds like it's saying \"I want to kill you.\" Take it away, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle_(film)\">Annabelle\u003c/a> the First!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zY1xtnnMr2c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zY1xtnnMr2c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In case all of this has left you feeling disturbed and on edge, this last clip is intended to make you feel better. Because, sure, while massive heads and animated fruit and strange old men doing the running man are bad, pray for the children of Japan who had to watch on in horror for years as this dog did strange things with human ears, doll heads, other animals and what appear to be ping pong paddles, in a series of commercials that culminate in the dog becoming a red-eyed flying half-alien.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/IU6ax9nhHUE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/IU6ax9nhHUE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See? It could be worse!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112467/the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_1145","pop_646","pop_3728","pop_100","pop_3538","pop_3087","pop_3341","pop_3727","pop_3726","pop_3289","pop_3439"],"featImg":"pop_112471","label":"pop"},"pop_107900":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_107900","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"107900","score":null,"sort":[1543963605000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-teen-lit-of-the-80s-and-90s-talked-sex-love-friends-and-more","title":"How Teen Lit of the '80s and '90s Talked Sex, Love, Friends and More","publishDate":1543963605,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>A couple years ago, author Gabrielle Moss was feeling \"worn down by the world\" and found herself impulse buying an entire crate of \"Sweet Valley High\" books on eBay for $25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/672893474/673022671\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Moss was binging these books—\"Sweet Valley\" and other series—as \"nostalgic stress relief.\" Moss had devoured these pastel-colored paperbacks during her own preteen years—she estimates she read two per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started wondering ... what was the impact of reading all these books?\" she says. She attempts to answer that question in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Paperback-Crush-Totally-Radical-History/dp/1683690788\">Paperback Crush\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>a deep dive into teen lit of the '80s and '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books were focused on \"heterosexual, white, middle-class, girl experiences,\" she says. The protagonist usually faces a \"small problem that seems very big to her\" that gets wrapped up in about 100 pages. She says many of the books may have been written off as unserious, but they reveal something meaningful about the time in which they were written.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the cyclical nature of trends in teen fiction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '40s and '50s and early '60s you had very wholesome books for girls called \"malt shop novels\" ... Jenny had a crush on Tommy, they kissed with closed mouths, the end. In the late '60s, you had the rise of something called \"the problem novel\"—the most famous example of that would be probably S.E. Hinton's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/152040513/the-outsiders\">The Outsiders.\u003c/a> And these books were grittier, more realistic—you had sex and drugs and family trouble. And then, in the late '70s, the cycle just turned over again. A series called \"Wildfire\" was first released in 1979, and these were very, very chaste, very wholesome romance novels and they were such enormous hits that it was like the \"malt shop\" books were back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-960x594.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On female friendships\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they started, in the mid-'80s, publishing more books for younger girls—books like \"Baby-Sitters Club\"—those girls were too young to be obsessed with boyfriends and so instead they had these girls define themselves by their friendship relationships with other girls. And I think that was one of the biggest impacts these books had on our generation ... kind of planting the seed of the idea that your friendships with other women were as important in your life as a romantic relationship might be down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how '80s and '90s books barely talked about sex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YA books in the '70s were becoming franker about sex with authors like Judy Blume. And then, the return of the \"malt shop\" vibe plus the beginning of the AIDS crisis kind of added up to sex becoming completely absent from these books except in cases where someone would have sex once, come down with a fatal STD, and it would be a learning experience for everyone. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of these books were set up as a conscious corrective to the more freewheeling sexual attitudes of '70s YA. You know, now that sex was suddenly revealed to be so dangerous and have so many consequences that the previous generation hadn't been aware of, I think there was a conscious decision on the part of YA authors to say ... \"We're not going to depict this as something you can do lightly, or something that you should be doing at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On teen books in the '80s and '90s that dealt with difficult subjects, such as suicide or eating disorders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was so much news—high-profile kidnappings of children, you know, injuries on playgrounds. People were suddenly very aware of how vulnerable children were, how much there was in the world that could hurt them. And I think that these books were a reaction to that understanding. So the message of all of them was ... Be careful. Don't talk to strangers. If you feel anything bad, you know, if you feel like you want to skip lunch today to be thinner, if you're feeling sad, tell your parents right away. Don't try to deal with it on your own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107904\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-960x594.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On these books lacking diversity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books were incredibly white. ... Even series of like the \"Baby-Sitters Club\" that had some characters of color were usually written by white authors. And I spoke to a few authors of color who had been working during this period ... and they told me they ran into, you know, tremendous institutional racism at publishers—people who told them ... \"We only publish historical novels about African-American teens\" or \"We already published a book this year with an Asian-American protagonist ... we don't have room on our schedule for another one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the lessons she learned from the fiction she read as a teen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in a very fluffy book like \"Sweet Valley High\" there's an emphasis on making yourself happy. ... In books like \"Baby-Sitters Club\" or \"Sleepover Friends\" there's an emphasis on thriving and doing things that bring you joy, helping others, creating a community, seeing your ideas through. Those weren't really ideas I was getting at home, just because my parents were from a different generation. But I really got it from those books—I feel like they raised me in a way. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's fluffy moments, there's meaningful moments, there's a lot of moments where they're arguing about sweater dresses—it all comes together into a beautiful whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Melissa Gray and Jolie Myers produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Love+With+Teen+Lit%3A+Remembering+The+%27Paperback+Crush%27+Of+The+%2780s+And+%2790s&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Book series like 'Sweet Valley High' and 'The Baby-Sitters Club' helped generations of (mostly white) teenage girls navigate new challenges.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1543963772,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":936},"headData":{"title":"How Teen Lit of the '80s and '90s Talked Sex, Love, Friends and More | KQED","description":"Book series like 'Sweet Valley High' and 'The Baby-Sitters Club' helped generations of (mostly white) teenage girls navigate new challenges.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"107900 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=107900","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/12/04/how-teen-lit-of-the-80s-and-90s-talked-sex-love-friends-and-more/","disqusTitle":"How Teen Lit of the '80s and '90s Talked Sex, Love, Friends and More","nprByline":"Ailsa Chang","nprImageAgency":" ","nprStoryId":"672893474","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=672893474&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/672893474/in-love-with-teen-lit-remembering-the-paperback-crush-of-the-80s-and-90s?ft=nprml&f=672893474","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:58:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:29:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:17:15 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2018/12/20181203_atc_in_love_with_teen_lit_remembering_the_paperback_crush_of_the_80s_and_90s.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1033&d=315&p=2&story=672893474&ft=nprml&f=672893474","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1673022671-a34331.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1033&d=315&p=2&story=672893474&ft=nprml&f=672893474","audioTrackLength":316,"path":"/pop/107900/how-teen-lit-of-the-80s-and-90s-talked-sex-love-friends-and-more","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2018/12/20181203_atc_in_love_with_teen_lit_remembering_the_paperback_crush_of_the_80s_and_90s.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1033&d=315&p=2&story=672893474&ft=nprml&f=672893474","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A couple years ago, author Gabrielle Moss was feeling \"worn down by the world\" and found herself impulse buying an entire crate of \"Sweet Valley High\" books on eBay for $25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/672893474/673022671\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Moss was binging these books—\"Sweet Valley\" and other series—as \"nostalgic stress relief.\" Moss had devoured these pastel-colored paperbacks during her own preteen years—she estimates she read two per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started wondering ... what was the impact of reading all these books?\" she says. She attempts to answer that question in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Paperback-Crush-Totally-Radical-History/dp/1683690788\">Paperback Crush\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>a deep dive into teen lit of the '80s and '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books were focused on \"heterosexual, white, middle-class, girl experiences,\" she says. The protagonist usually faces a \"small problem that seems very big to her\" that gets wrapped up in about 100 pages. She says many of the books may have been written off as unserious, but they reveal something meaningful about the time in which they were written.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the cyclical nature of trends in teen fiction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '40s and '50s and early '60s you had very wholesome books for girls called \"malt shop novels\" ... Jenny had a crush on Tommy, they kissed with closed mouths, the end. In the late '60s, you had the rise of something called \"the problem novel\"—the most famous example of that would be probably S.E. Hinton's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/152040513/the-outsiders\">The Outsiders.\u003c/a> And these books were grittier, more realistic—you had sex and drugs and family trouble. And then, in the late '70s, the cycle just turned over again. A series called \"Wildfire\" was first released in 1979, and these were very, very chaste, very wholesome romance novels and they were such enormous hits that it was like the \"malt shop\" books were back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-960x594.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/baby-sitters-club-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On female friendships\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they started, in the mid-'80s, publishing more books for younger girls—books like \"Baby-Sitters Club\"—those girls were too young to be obsessed with boyfriends and so instead they had these girls define themselves by their friendship relationships with other girls. And I think that was one of the biggest impacts these books had on our generation ... kind of planting the seed of the idea that your friendships with other women were as important in your life as a romantic relationship might be down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how '80s and '90s books barely talked about sex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YA books in the '70s were becoming franker about sex with authors like Judy Blume. And then, the return of the \"malt shop\" vibe plus the beginning of the AIDS crisis kind of added up to sex becoming completely absent from these books except in cases where someone would have sex once, come down with a fatal STD, and it would be a learning experience for everyone. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of these books were set up as a conscious corrective to the more freewheeling sexual attitudes of '70s YA. You know, now that sex was suddenly revealed to be so dangerous and have so many consequences that the previous generation hadn't been aware of, I think there was a conscious decision on the part of YA authors to say ... \"We're not going to depict this as something you can do lightly, or something that you should be doing at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On teen books in the '80s and '90s that dealt with difficult subjects, such as suicide or eating disorders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was so much news—high-profile kidnappings of children, you know, injuries on playgrounds. People were suddenly very aware of how vulnerable children were, how much there was in the world that could hurt them. And I think that these books were a reaction to that understanding. So the message of all of them was ... Be careful. Don't talk to strangers. If you feel anything bad, you know, if you feel like you want to skip lunch today to be thinner, if you're feeling sad, tell your parents right away. Don't try to deal with it on your own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107904\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-960x594.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/sweet-valley-high-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On these books lacking diversity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books were incredibly white. ... Even series of like the \"Baby-Sitters Club\" that had some characters of color were usually written by white authors. And I spoke to a few authors of color who had been working during this period ... and they told me they ran into, you know, tremendous institutional racism at publishers—people who told them ... \"We only publish historical novels about African-American teens\" or \"We already published a book this year with an Asian-American protagonist ... we don't have room on our schedule for another one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the lessons she learned from the fiction she read as a teen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in a very fluffy book like \"Sweet Valley High\" there's an emphasis on making yourself happy. ... In books like \"Baby-Sitters Club\" or \"Sleepover Friends\" there's an emphasis on thriving and doing things that bring you joy, helping others, creating a community, seeing your ideas through. Those weren't really ideas I was getting at home, just because my parents were from a different generation. But I really got it from those books—I feel like they raised me in a way. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's fluffy moments, there's meaningful moments, there's a lot of moments where they're arguing about sweater dresses—it all comes together into a beautiful whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Melissa Gray and Jolie Myers produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Love+With+Teen+Lit%3A+Remembering+The+%27Paperback+Crush%27+Of+The+%2780s+And+%2790s&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/107900/how-teen-lit-of-the-80s-and-90s-talked-sex-love-friends-and-more","authors":["byline_pop_107900"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_1145","pop_646","pop_359","pop_364"],"featImg":"pop_107901","label":"pop"},"pop_101751":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_101751","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"101751","score":null,"sort":[1518035231000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-spice-girls-are-going-on-tour-say-youll-be-there","title":"The Spice Girls Are Going On Tour! Say You'll Be There?","publishDate":1518035231,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>A few days ago, the Spice Girls hung out and allegedly discussed putting out a greatest hits compilation and producing a TV show in China (???). But apparently there was more to the story...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/959492166878834689\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>🚨 TMZ is now reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/07/spice-girls-reunite-tour-concerts-together/\">the Spice Girls are going on tour in the US and the UK\u003c/a>! 🚨\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really hope this is not a drill because the 12 year old version of me is sweating with excitement. Scratch that, the 30-something version of me is sweating with excitement!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who's spent more than an hour with me knows that I have a deep, abiding love for the Spice Girls. I say things like, \"Oh, you're a Capricorn? So is Sporty Spice!\" and \"No, it's not weird that I'm a grown man with a Ginger Spice doll on my desk.\" When I hear love songs, I think of them (shout out to my boyfriend for understanding).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We Spice Girls die-hard aficionados never thought this would happen. The girls \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Spice_Girls\">already reunited in 2007\u003c/a> for a tour and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArTdhNda7k\">again in 2012\u003c/a> for the London Olympics closing ceremony. Since then, Victoria Beckham has gone on record as saying that she would like to leave it at that. Melanie C similarly said she was over it, and that she wouldn't reunite if it wasn't the original five. This disinterest led to the three remaining girls floating the idea of an ill-advised trio called GEM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwk3MVKehI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans summarily responded with a hard:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/no-thank-you-lil-boo-boo.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/no-thank-you-lil-boo-boo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it seems as though they were right, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/07/07/spice-girls-wannabe-just-turned-21-and-youve-never-been-older/\">way back in 1996\u003c/a>: friendship never ends! They're giving us everything, all that joy can bring, this they swear (yes, they swear)! Candle light and soul forever, a dream of you and the Spice Girls together, say you believe it, say you believe it! When you're feelin' sad and low, the Spice Girls will take you where you gotta go, smilin', dancin', everything is free, all you need is positivity!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are too cool to attend this dreamscape of a tour, who do you think you are? For the rest of you, say you'll be there. I know I'll be. I already have my outfit (and wig) picked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/oU-b1hqL7J/?taken-by=excusemybeauty\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"They were right! Friendship never ends! I'm not crying; you're crying!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1518036538,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":407},"headData":{"title":"The Spice Girls Are Going On Tour! Say You'll Be There? | KQED","description":"They were right! Friendship never ends! 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But apparently there was more to the story...\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"959492166878834689"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>🚨 TMZ is now reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/07/spice-girls-reunite-tour-concerts-together/\">the Spice Girls are going on tour in the US and the UK\u003c/a>! 🚨\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really hope this is not a drill because the 12 year old version of me is sweating with excitement. Scratch that, the 30-something version of me is sweating with excitement!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who's spent more than an hour with me knows that I have a deep, abiding love for the Spice Girls. I say things like, \"Oh, you're a Capricorn? So is Sporty Spice!\" and \"No, it's not weird that I'm a grown man with a Ginger Spice doll on my desk.\" When I hear love songs, I think of them (shout out to my boyfriend for understanding).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We Spice Girls die-hard aficionados never thought this would happen. The girls \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Spice_Girls\">already reunited in 2007\u003c/a> for a tour and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArTdhNda7k\">again in 2012\u003c/a> for the London Olympics closing ceremony. Since then, Victoria Beckham has gone on record as saying that she would like to leave it at that. Melanie C similarly said she was over it, and that she wouldn't reunite if it wasn't the original five. This disinterest led to the three remaining girls floating the idea of an ill-advised trio called GEM.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yMwk3MVKehI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yMwk3MVKehI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Fans summarily responded with a hard:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/no-thank-you-lil-boo-boo.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/no-thank-you-lil-boo-boo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it seems as though they were right, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/07/07/spice-girls-wannabe-just-turned-21-and-youve-never-been-older/\">way back in 1996\u003c/a>: friendship never ends! They're giving us everything, all that joy can bring, this they swear (yes, they swear)! Candle light and soul forever, a dream of you and the Spice Girls together, say you believe it, say you believe it! When you're feelin' sad and low, the Spice Girls will take you where you gotta go, smilin', dancin', everything is free, all you need is positivity!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are too cool to attend this dreamscape of a tour, who do you think you are? For the rest of you, say you'll be there. I know I'll be. I already have my outfit (and wig) picked out.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"oU-b1hqL7J"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/101751/the-spice-girls-are-going-on-tour-say-youll-be-there","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_646","pop_1636"],"featImg":"pop_101766","label":"pop"},"pop_96730":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_96730","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"96730","score":null,"sort":[1508318546000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"would-jesus-listen-to-90s-music","title":"Would Jesus Listen to '90s Music?","publishDate":1508318546,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/10/Gargoyles.mp3\" title=\"Would Jesus Listen to '90s Music?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A lot of people ask, \"What would Jesus do?\" But two so-called Christian critics decided to start asking a different question: \"What would Jesus listen to?\" Answer: essentially nothing that came out in the '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/mute-volume-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/mute-volume-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pretty Woman\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mean Girls\u003c/em> are the latest movies to be turned into musicals. We dream up some musical adaptations of our own, from \u003cem>Titanic\u003c/em> to \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/tyrion-game-of-thrones-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/tyrion-game-of-thrones-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We belatedly get mad at the casting directors of the 2001 film \u003cem>Josie and the Pussycats\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/josie-and-the-pussycat-movie-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/josie-and-the-pussycat-movie-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tip our hats to Oprah for continuously living her best life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/Oprah_relaxin.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/Oprah_relaxin.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we ride out on \"If I Ruled the World\" by Nas and Lauryn Hill:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW55FRXlPEs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1041117499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe and rate us in iTunes\u003c/a>! And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We page through a guide on which \"hot discs\" from the '90s are full of sin, dream up fantasy musical adaptations, and honor Oprah for living her best life.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1507917080,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":179},"headData":{"title":"Would Jesus Listen to '90s Music? | KQED","description":"We page through a guide on which "hot discs" from the '90s are full of sin, dream up fantasy musical adaptations, and honor Oprah for living her best life.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"96730 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=96730","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/10/18/would-jesus-listen-to-90s-music/","disqusTitle":"Would Jesus Listen to '90s Music?","path":"/pop/96730/would-jesus-listen-to-90s-music","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/10/Gargoyles.mp3","audioDuration":2571000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"program":"The Cooler","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg","label":"src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/10/Gargoyles.mp3\" title=\"Would Jesus Listen to '90s Music?\""},"numeric":["src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/10/Gargoyles.mp3\" title=\"Would","Jesus","Listen","to","'90s","Music?\""]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A lot of people ask, \"What would Jesus do?\" But two so-called Christian critics decided to start asking a different question: \"What would Jesus listen to?\" Answer: essentially nothing that came out in the '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/mute-volume-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/mute-volume-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pretty Woman\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mean Girls\u003c/em> are the latest movies to be turned into musicals. We dream up some musical adaptations of our own, from \u003cem>Titanic\u003c/em> to \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/tyrion-game-of-thrones-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/tyrion-game-of-thrones-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We belatedly get mad at the casting directors of the 2001 film \u003cem>Josie and the Pussycats\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/josie-and-the-pussycat-movie-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/josie-and-the-pussycat-movie-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tip our hats to Oprah for continuously living her best life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/Oprah_relaxin.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/Oprah_relaxin.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we ride out on \"If I Ruled the World\" by Nas and Lauryn Hill:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/NW55FRXlPEs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/NW55FRXlPEs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1041117499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe and rate us in iTunes\u003c/a>! And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/96730/would-jesus-listen-to-90s-music","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_4","pop_2793"],"tags":["pop_646","pop_2859"],"featImg":"pop_96749","label":"pop"},"pop_96048":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_96048","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"96048","score":null,"sort":[1505134850000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"singles-cameron-crowes-grunge-movie-is-25-and-not-as-good-as-you-remember","title":"'Singles': Cameron Crowe's Grunge Movie is 25 (and Not as Good as You Remember)","publishDate":1505134850,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>25 years ago this month, America was in the midst of whole-heartedly embracing underground culture, thanks to Nirvana's \u003cem>Nevermind\u003c/em> blowing up earlier in the year and knocking Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard charts. It was a shock that initially made America feel like its very foundations were crumbling. What followed was grunge-mania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the noisiest summer in decades, mainstream music and fashion (from the mall to the catwalk) picked up the sound and aesthetics of what had once been a small, underground Seattle scene, and ran amok with it. Suddenly, the nation was awash with women pairing delicate floral dresses with beanies and boots, and shaggy-looking men who thought nothing of wearing long johns under shorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiC6xpailKg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1992 was the pinnacle of grunge changing the rules about what popular culture could be. That year's album releases included a mind-bending number of alt-classics including: Nirvana's \u003cem>Incesticide\u003c/em>, Sonic Youth's \u003cem>Dirty\u003c/em>, Stone Temple Pilots' \u003cem>Core\u003c/em>, Sugar's \u003cem>Copper Blue\u003c/em>, Mudhoney's \u003cem>Piece of Cake\u003c/em>, Soul Asylum's \u003cem>Grave Dancer's Union\u003c/em>, Faith No More's \u003cem>Angel Dust\u003c/em>, Screaming Tree's \u003cem>Sweet Oblivion, \u003c/em>and\u003cem> Sap \u003c/em>by Alice in Chains. There are simply too many others from that year to even list here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that September, when Cameron Crowe released a romantic comedy set in Seattle with a decidedly grunge-y backdrop, it wasn't terribly surprising. \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> came with cameos from Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Tad Doyle, and a soundtrack that still sounds exceptional two and a half decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4tQFsPTGXI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the music of 1992 still holds up so well in 2017, it's easy to forget how much other stuff from that year does not. To re-watch \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> now is to bear witness to the last gasps of human existence before the internet. There are scenes in this movie that revolve around phone booths in clubs, fax machines, malfunctioning cassette tapes, super-huge garage door openers, video dating, digital watches that are impressive because they “can store 20 numbers,” and those little boxy, beige computers with black screens and green letters. \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> is set in a time when people still met at elaborate magazine racks on street corners, and lost touch because of missed phone calls made to unreliable landlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main reasons \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> doesn't hold up is because, in 2017, it kind of doesn't make sense. Despite a marketing campaign that focused on the grungier side of the movie, the main couple featured, Steve and Linda, are decidedly straight-laced. So, watching it now, you can't help but wonder what the hell they're doing hanging around at Alice in Chains concerts. In the grunge-crazy world of 1992, when frat boys enthusiastically attended Nirvana shows, it didn't seem that weird; today, it looks completely implausible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUeHyaAMOxA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest problem of all though has nothing to do with the passage of time. Re-watching \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> now, it's difficult not to question if this movie would even have been made if not for the Seattle backdrop, band cameos, and impressive soundtrack. The best scenes are the ones that nod to the music-lovers in the audience. The fact that Matt Dillon's character, a vocalist named Cliff, sings a song titled \"Touch Me, I'm Dick\" -- a knowing cover of Mudhoney classic \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGsT_qFMBs\">\"Touch Me, I'm Sick\"\u003c/a> -- is still pretty fun. As is watching Chris Cornell wander up next to a car and head-bang along to its freshly-fitted stereo. Seeing three members of Pearl Jam pretend to be dopey rockers is still pretty entertaining too. It's these small moments that provide all of the fun in \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em>. Take them away, and you're not left with a whole lot of substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-FaHqfpXR0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, with hindsight, \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> looks like a not-great preamble to Crowe's other music movie, the almost perfect \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsYVT7Fufg\">Almost Famous\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>The 2000 film that made Kate Hudson a star was set in the world of 1970s rock 'n' roll tours and was significantly more successful at capturing the tone of that very specific time and place. \u003cem>Almost Famous\u003c/em> was fantastic because it went all in and committed. By contrast, \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> uses grunge as a canvas and a marketing tool, but is unwilling -- or was unable at the time -- to focus on that scene wholeheartedly. In the end, this is a grunge movie that seems fearful of alienating non-grunge audiences, which means neither grunge fans nor mainstream folk can leave satisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's that fear of commitment that also makes for a cast of unlikeable characters. The main grunge guy in the whole thing is a narcissistic imbecile (Cliff), his grunge girlfriend is needy and too wholesome (Janet), and the regular folk (Steve, Linda and, to a lesser degree, Debbie) are all frequently-insufferable bores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the world can still look back on grunge with a swell of warm nostalgia. It was the last great music scene to truly dominate American culture, precisely because it was happening at a time when the world was still reliant on major labels, tight local scenes, MTV, and record stores to sell us the coolest stuff to listen to. That kind of mass consumption and focus all went out of the window with Napster, and, to a far greater degree, the digitization of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> soundtrack -- featuring outstanding work by Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, The Replacements, and Smashing Pumpkins -- might be one of the most solid in movie history. It's worth checking out for Smashing Pumpkins' contribution alone (\"Drown\" remains one of the band's best ever tracks). But while the \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> soundtrack is still something we can most certainly turn to when we crave that very specific time in music history, you're probably better off skipping the movie.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When the music of 1992 still holds up so well in 2017, it's easy to forget how much other stuff from that year does not.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1504904212,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1048},"headData":{"title":"'Singles': Cameron Crowe's Grunge Movie is 25 (and Not as Good as You Remember) | KQED","description":"When the music of 1992 still holds up so well in 2017, it's easy to forget how much other stuff from that year does not.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"96048 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=96048","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/09/11/singles-cameron-crowes-grunge-movie-is-25-and-not-as-good-as-you-remember/","disqusTitle":"'Singles': Cameron Crowe's Grunge Movie is 25 (and Not as Good as You Remember)","path":"/pop/96048/singles-cameron-crowes-grunge-movie-is-25-and-not-as-good-as-you-remember","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>25 years ago this month, America was in the midst of whole-heartedly embracing underground culture, thanks to Nirvana's \u003cem>Nevermind\u003c/em> blowing up earlier in the year and knocking Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard charts. It was a shock that initially made America feel like its very foundations were crumbling. What followed was grunge-mania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the noisiest summer in decades, mainstream music and fashion (from the mall to the catwalk) picked up the sound and aesthetics of what had once been a small, underground Seattle scene, and ran amok with it. Suddenly, the nation was awash with women pairing delicate floral dresses with beanies and boots, and shaggy-looking men who thought nothing of wearing long johns under shorts.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MiC6xpailKg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MiC6xpailKg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>1992 was the pinnacle of grunge changing the rules about what popular culture could be. That year's album releases included a mind-bending number of alt-classics including: Nirvana's \u003cem>Incesticide\u003c/em>, Sonic Youth's \u003cem>Dirty\u003c/em>, Stone Temple Pilots' \u003cem>Core\u003c/em>, Sugar's \u003cem>Copper Blue\u003c/em>, Mudhoney's \u003cem>Piece of Cake\u003c/em>, Soul Asylum's \u003cem>Grave Dancer's Union\u003c/em>, Faith No More's \u003cem>Angel Dust\u003c/em>, Screaming Tree's \u003cem>Sweet Oblivion, \u003c/em>and\u003cem> Sap \u003c/em>by Alice in Chains. There are simply too many others from that year to even list here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that September, when Cameron Crowe released a romantic comedy set in Seattle with a decidedly grunge-y backdrop, it wasn't terribly surprising. \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> came with cameos from Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Tad Doyle, and a soundtrack that still sounds exceptional two and a half decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/b4tQFsPTGXI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/b4tQFsPTGXI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When the music of 1992 still holds up so well in 2017, it's easy to forget how much other stuff from that year does not. To re-watch \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> now is to bear witness to the last gasps of human existence before the internet. There are scenes in this movie that revolve around phone booths in clubs, fax machines, malfunctioning cassette tapes, super-huge garage door openers, video dating, digital watches that are impressive because they “can store 20 numbers,” and those little boxy, beige computers with black screens and green letters. \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> is set in a time when people still met at elaborate magazine racks on street corners, and lost touch because of missed phone calls made to unreliable landlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main reasons \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> doesn't hold up is because, in 2017, it kind of doesn't make sense. Despite a marketing campaign that focused on the grungier side of the movie, the main couple featured, Steve and Linda, are decidedly straight-laced. So, watching it now, you can't help but wonder what the hell they're doing hanging around at Alice in Chains concerts. In the grunge-crazy world of 1992, when frat boys enthusiastically attended Nirvana shows, it didn't seem that weird; today, it looks completely implausible.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iUeHyaAMOxA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iUeHyaAMOxA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The biggest problem of all though has nothing to do with the passage of time. Re-watching \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> now, it's difficult not to question if this movie would even have been made if not for the Seattle backdrop, band cameos, and impressive soundtrack. The best scenes are the ones that nod to the music-lovers in the audience. The fact that Matt Dillon's character, a vocalist named Cliff, sings a song titled \"Touch Me, I'm Dick\" -- a knowing cover of Mudhoney classic \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGsT_qFMBs\">\"Touch Me, I'm Sick\"\u003c/a> -- is still pretty fun. As is watching Chris Cornell wander up next to a car and head-bang along to its freshly-fitted stereo. Seeing three members of Pearl Jam pretend to be dopey rockers is still pretty entertaining too. It's these small moments that provide all of the fun in \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em>. Take them away, and you're not left with a whole lot of substance.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/y-FaHqfpXR0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y-FaHqfpXR0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The truth is, with hindsight, \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> looks like a not-great preamble to Crowe's other music movie, the almost perfect \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsYVT7Fufg\">Almost Famous\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>The 2000 film that made Kate Hudson a star was set in the world of 1970s rock 'n' roll tours and was significantly more successful at capturing the tone of that very specific time and place. \u003cem>Almost Famous\u003c/em> was fantastic because it went all in and committed. By contrast, \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> uses grunge as a canvas and a marketing tool, but is unwilling -- or was unable at the time -- to focus on that scene wholeheartedly. In the end, this is a grunge movie that seems fearful of alienating non-grunge audiences, which means neither grunge fans nor mainstream folk can leave satisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's that fear of commitment that also makes for a cast of unlikeable characters. The main grunge guy in the whole thing is a narcissistic imbecile (Cliff), his grunge girlfriend is needy and too wholesome (Janet), and the regular folk (Steve, Linda and, to a lesser degree, Debbie) are all frequently-insufferable bores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the world can still look back on grunge with a swell of warm nostalgia. It was the last great music scene to truly dominate American culture, precisely because it was happening at a time when the world was still reliant on major labels, tight local scenes, MTV, and record stores to sell us the coolest stuff to listen to. That kind of mass consumption and focus all went out of the window with Napster, and, to a far greater degree, the digitization of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> soundtrack -- featuring outstanding work by Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, The Replacements, and Smashing Pumpkins -- might be one of the most solid in movie history. It's worth checking out for Smashing Pumpkins' contribution alone (\"Drown\" remains one of the band's best ever tracks). But while the \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> soundtrack is still something we can most certainly turn to when we crave that very specific time in music history, you're probably better off skipping the movie.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/96048/singles-cameron-crowes-grunge-movie-is-25-and-not-as-good-as-you-remember","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_646"],"featImg":"pop_96068","label":"pop"},"pop_95811":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_95811","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"95811","score":null,"sort":[1503601431000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shes-not-all-that-a-brief-history-of-rags-to-princess-makeovers-in-movies","title":"She's Not All That: A Brief History of Rags-to-Princess Makeovers in Movies","publishDate":1503601431,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>It's no secret that American women are bombarded daily with mainstream beauty standards—a multitude of industries literally depend on it. But nowhere is that message more sneakily fed than in that old movie trope: the conventional makeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably the most famously upsetting example occurred in 1985's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/?ref_=nv_sr_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Breakfast Club\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, when spoiled princess Claire (Molly Ringwald) does what is supposed to be her good deed for the day by de-weirding the eccentric but adorable Allison (Ally Sheedy). Claire transforms Allison's goth bag-lady look with a frilly pink top she has magicked out of nowhere, removes Allison's black eyeliner, puts pink shimmer all over her face and sticks a bow on her head, thereby effectively erasing Allison's entire persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are you being so nice to me?\" Allison asks, letting the viewer know that, at the core of every unconventional woman, is a \"normal,\" more aesthetically pleasing one just dying to get out. It's not true, of course: weird kids aren't weird because they don't know how to be pretty—weird kids dress weird to outwardly own the fact that they don't fit in. They have no desire to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Hughes should have known better. Outside of the makeover scene, \u003cem>The Breakfast Club\u003c/em> is a movie that examines, very pointedly, the inherent value of individuality. It's a film that tells us that nobody has a perfect life; that humans are all complex creatures; and that high school, with all of its stupid pressures to fit in, is basically a waking nightmare. All of the film's good work is undone when Allison is no longer allowed to be herself—in the end, the movie is telling us, pretty is always better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Predictably, after the transformation she never asked for, Allison is immediately desired by the first jock who sees her, and we're supposed to think this is a good thing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rprB-_jyLjU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2015 interview with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.craveonline.com/site/836505-sxsw-2015-interview-molly-ringwald-ally-sheedy-regret-the-makeover-scene-in-the-breakfast-club/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crave\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Ally Sheedy said of the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Yeah, at first in the script Molly was actually adding a lot of makeup onto this plain faced Allison but then I wanted that black [eyeliner]. So then John [Hughes, writer/ director] said it was okay to have it be taking the black stuff off the eyes. I think the idea was that you reveal this person who’s been behind a mask, but every time I look at it, I wish we hadn’t done that.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97337']It wasn't the only time John Hughes gave a female character a totally unnecessary movie makeover either. Just one year later, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pretty in Pink\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, he felt the need to transform the best-dressed woman in the whole film. Viewers spend the entire movie falling in love with Iona (Annie Potts) because of her kooky exuberance, dry sense of humor and consistently amazing wardrobe, only to watch her get turned into a \u003cem>Miami Vice\u003c/em> extra by the end because she's found the right man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miscast in the role, Potts looks almost the same age as the rest of the supposedly teenage cast. If the script didn't reference it repeatedly, we'd have absolutely no idea that Iona is supposed to be in her mid-late thirties. Post-makeover, the reason for all of the age references becomes abundantly clear: Hughes wants us to know that when older women express themselves through unusual clothing, it is simply a product of acting out. The second they find a relationship, all of that creativity will evaporate because they finally have something worthwhile to put their energy towards—a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95812 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-800x371.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-768x356.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-1920x890.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-1180x547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-960x445.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-240x111.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-375x174.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-520x241.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iona in 'Pretty in Pink': Rad, Rad, Rad, Sad.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The '90s weren't immune to the high-school movie makeover either. In hindsight, it's not terribly surprising that \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em> has one, given the fact that the movie's plot revolves primarily around humiliating young women. The film starts with Zack (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) declaring to a friend that all girls are interchangeable. (Great start, \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em>!) To prove it, he promises to transform an unwitting nerd into a prom queen within a matter of weeks. The rest of the movie is basically about Zack's ex-girlfriend being publicly humiliated, or the unwitting nerd being manipulated and/or abused. (There's a totally glossed over almost-sexual-assault at the end, on top of everything else).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this aside, what gives \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em> an extra level of unwatchable-ness is that Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook) is quite obviously drop-dead gorgeous pre-makeover, so it makes zero sense when Zack's jaw drops at the sight of the made-over Laney, just because she's taken off her glasses and shortened her hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch on as newfound beauty magically grants Laney 20/20 vision and the ability to see without the glasses she's needed this entire time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPuJkuesiyM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 2000's \u003cem>Miss Congeniality\u003c/em> had the decency to come up with a flimsy plot device (beyond simply We'll Make You Look Nice Now) to facilitate the makeover of Gracie (Sandra Bullock). That's about the only positive though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message throughout the comedy is relentless: tough women are perpetually unattractive; tomboys are inherently gross; pageants are so incredibly important people might be driven to revenge-bomb them; and only once they adhere to strict beauty regimens can women truly find wholeness and happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept that a woman of Gracie's age, living in America, could manage to reach adulthood without ever being pressured into trying out the world of make up and dresses before, is an insult to teenage girls everywhere—as is the idea that a woman who doesn't \"even own a brush\" can instantly walk this far, this flawlessly in heels. (Both \u003cem>Miss Congeniality\u003c/em> and \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em> are careful to include one post-makeover heel-related stumble. You know. For realism.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lW0cZ55co\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inherently flawed thing about the conventional makeover in movies is that it sends very clear, potentially damaging messages to audiences. The first is that, if you are a woman, being yourself is much less important than being attractive to men. The second is the idea that if you look a certain way, if you buy the right clothes and preen enough, all of your problems will go away (*cough* \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TZEsUhXRs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pretty Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> *cough*). And third: women should both crave and welcome the male gaze. (We'd talk about the rampant cis- and hetero-normativity involved in all of this, but there simply isn't time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, post-Millennium movie makeovers—like those in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Devil Wears Prada\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282140/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Easy A\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—have done a better job of making on-screen transformations about something other than the inner desire to conform. Let's hope the erasure of characters' strong identities in favor of a pretty face stays trapped in the last Century.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When unconventional women get transformed on screen, it sends a harmful message to those that are watching.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1628276833,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1201},"headData":{"title":"She's Not All That: A Brief History of Rags-to-Princess Makeovers in Movies - KQED Pop","description":"When unconventional women get transformed on screen, it sends a harmful message to those that are watching.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"95811 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=95811","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/08/24/shes-not-all-that-a-brief-history-of-rags-to-princess-makeovers-in-movies/","disqusTitle":"She's Not All That: A Brief History of Rags-to-Princess Makeovers in Movies","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/95811/shes-not-all-that-a-brief-history-of-rags-to-princess-makeovers-in-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's no secret that American women are bombarded daily with mainstream beauty standards—a multitude of industries literally depend on it. But nowhere is that message more sneakily fed than in that old movie trope: the conventional makeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably the most famously upsetting example occurred in 1985's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/?ref_=nv_sr_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Breakfast Club\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, when spoiled princess Claire (Molly Ringwald) does what is supposed to be her good deed for the day by de-weirding the eccentric but adorable Allison (Ally Sheedy). Claire transforms Allison's goth bag-lady look with a frilly pink top she has magicked out of nowhere, removes Allison's black eyeliner, puts pink shimmer all over her face and sticks a bow on her head, thereby effectively erasing Allison's entire persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are you being so nice to me?\" Allison asks, letting the viewer know that, at the core of every unconventional woman, is a \"normal,\" more aesthetically pleasing one just dying to get out. It's not true, of course: weird kids aren't weird because they don't know how to be pretty—weird kids dress weird to outwardly own the fact that they don't fit in. They have no desire to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Hughes should have known better. Outside of the makeover scene, \u003cem>The Breakfast Club\u003c/em> is a movie that examines, very pointedly, the inherent value of individuality. It's a film that tells us that nobody has a perfect life; that humans are all complex creatures; and that high school, with all of its stupid pressures to fit in, is basically a waking nightmare. All of the film's good work is undone when Allison is no longer allowed to be herself—in the end, the movie is telling us, pretty is always better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Predictably, after the transformation she never asked for, Allison is immediately desired by the first jock who sees her, and we're supposed to think this is a good thing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/rprB-_jyLjU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/rprB-_jyLjU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In a 2015 interview with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.craveonline.com/site/836505-sxsw-2015-interview-molly-ringwald-ally-sheedy-regret-the-makeover-scene-in-the-breakfast-club/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crave\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Ally Sheedy said of the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Yeah, at first in the script Molly was actually adding a lot of makeup onto this plain faced Allison but then I wanted that black [eyeliner]. So then John [Hughes, writer/ director] said it was okay to have it be taking the black stuff off the eyes. I think the idea was that you reveal this person who’s been behind a mask, but every time I look at it, I wish we hadn’t done that.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_97337","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It wasn't the only time John Hughes gave a female character a totally unnecessary movie makeover either. Just one year later, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pretty in Pink\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, he felt the need to transform the best-dressed woman in the whole film. Viewers spend the entire movie falling in love with Iona (Annie Potts) because of her kooky exuberance, dry sense of humor and consistently amazing wardrobe, only to watch her get turned into a \u003cem>Miami Vice\u003c/em> extra by the end because she's found the right man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miscast in the role, Potts looks almost the same age as the rest of the supposedly teenage cast. If the script didn't reference it repeatedly, we'd have absolutely no idea that Iona is supposed to be in her mid-late thirties. Post-makeover, the reason for all of the age references becomes abundantly clear: Hughes wants us to know that when older women express themselves through unusual clothing, it is simply a product of acting out. The second they find a relationship, all of that creativity will evaporate because they finally have something worthwhile to put their energy towards—a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95812 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-800x371.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-768x356.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-1920x890.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-1180x547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-960x445.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-240x111.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-375x174.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/iona-pip-520x241.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iona in 'Pretty in Pink': Rad, Rad, Rad, Sad.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The '90s weren't immune to the high-school movie makeover either. In hindsight, it's not terribly surprising that \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em> has one, given the fact that the movie's plot revolves primarily around humiliating young women. The film starts with Zack (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) declaring to a friend that all girls are interchangeable. (Great start, \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em>!) To prove it, he promises to transform an unwitting nerd into a prom queen within a matter of weeks. The rest of the movie is basically about Zack's ex-girlfriend being publicly humiliated, or the unwitting nerd being manipulated and/or abused. (There's a totally glossed over almost-sexual-assault at the end, on top of everything else).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this aside, what gives \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em> an extra level of unwatchable-ness is that Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook) is quite obviously drop-dead gorgeous pre-makeover, so it makes zero sense when Zack's jaw drops at the sight of the made-over Laney, just because she's taken off her glasses and shortened her hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch on as newfound beauty magically grants Laney 20/20 vision and the ability to see without the glasses she's needed this entire time:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SPuJkuesiyM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SPuJkuesiyM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>At least 2000's \u003cem>Miss Congeniality\u003c/em> had the decency to come up with a flimsy plot device (beyond simply We'll Make You Look Nice Now) to facilitate the makeover of Gracie (Sandra Bullock). That's about the only positive though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message throughout the comedy is relentless: tough women are perpetually unattractive; tomboys are inherently gross; pageants are so incredibly important people might be driven to revenge-bomb them; and only once they adhere to strict beauty regimens can women truly find wholeness and happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept that a woman of Gracie's age, living in America, could manage to reach adulthood without ever being pressured into trying out the world of make up and dresses before, is an insult to teenage girls everywhere—as is the idea that a woman who doesn't \"even own a brush\" can instantly walk this far, this flawlessly in heels. (Both \u003cem>Miss Congeniality\u003c/em> and \u003cem>She's All That\u003c/em> are careful to include one post-makeover heel-related stumble. You know. For realism.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/M5lW0cZ55co'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/M5lW0cZ55co'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The inherently flawed thing about the conventional makeover in movies is that it sends very clear, potentially damaging messages to audiences. The first is that, if you are a woman, being yourself is much less important than being attractive to men. The second is the idea that if you look a certain way, if you buy the right clothes and preen enough, all of your problems will go away (*cough* \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TZEsUhXRs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pretty Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> *cough*). And third: women should both crave and welcome the male gaze. (We'd talk about the rampant cis- and hetero-normativity involved in all of this, but there simply isn't time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, post-Millennium movie makeovers—like those in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Devil Wears Prada\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282140/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Easy A\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—have done a better job of making on-screen transformations about something other than the inner desire to conform. Let's hope the erasure of characters' strong identities in favor of a pretty face stays trapped in the last Century.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/95811/shes-not-all-that-a-brief-history-of-rags-to-princess-makeovers-in-movies","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_1145","pop_646","pop_1119"],"featImg":"pop_95813","label":"pop"},"pop_93848":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_93848","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"93848","score":null,"sort":[1501028556000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ms-paint-resurrected-from-the-dead-after-90s-internet-kids-whine-enough","title":"MS Paint Resurrected from the Dead, After '90s Internet Kids Whine Enough","publishDate":1501028556,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Move over, Lazarus. There's a new resurrected entity in town! MS Paint, a.k.a. the rudimentary illustrating program some of us used for killing time (and drawing \u003ca href=\"http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/super-s-stussy\">Stussy S's\u003c/a> and penises) before AOL free trials were a thing, died yesterday (technically it was \"deprecated,\" which means it wouldn't be developed further and would be removed from future products).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet collectively mourned, joked, and mourned some more:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/889861119980040192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/McDoFi/status/889453382540328961\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jjc_uk/status/889459845509853184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2017%2F07%2F25%2Fmicrosoft-paint-tributes%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/unrepentantmess/status/889788489100820480\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MrRyanPorter/status/889485593998131202\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lowfundaboy/status/889821260498313216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the noise was enough to get Microsoft to say, \"JK! Our bad! you can keep it! Don't hurt us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I paraphrased a bit. Here's what a rep actually said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Today, we’ve seen an incredible outpouring of support and nostalgia around MS Paint. If there’s anything we learned, it’s that after 32 years, MS Paint has a lot of fans. It’s been amazing to see so much love for our trusty old app. Amidst today’s commentary around MS Paint we wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight, clear up some confusion and share some good news: MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Phew! My feelings can be best expressed through this evergreen Lady Gaga tweet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/84441635211059201?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone (for a few hours). Now that we've been reminded of how deep our love and affection goes for this messy tech relic, I expect us all to forgo Photoshop next time we want to make ourselves look younger in a photo. Paint bucket tool or bust!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Move over, Lazarus! There's a new resurrected entity in town!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501028556,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":350},"headData":{"title":"MS Paint Resurrected from the Dead, After '90s Internet Kids Whine Enough | KQED","description":"Move over, Lazarus! 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MS Paint, a.k.a. the rudimentary illustrating program some of us used for killing time (and drawing \u003ca href=\"http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/super-s-stussy\">Stussy S's\u003c/a> and penises) before AOL free trials were a thing, died yesterday (technically it was \"deprecated,\" which means it wouldn't be developed further and would be removed from future products).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet collectively mourned, joked, and mourned some more:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889861119980040192"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889453382540328961"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889459845509853184"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889788489100820480"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889485593998131202"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889821260498313216"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>All the noise was enough to get Microsoft to say, \"JK! Our bad! you can keep it! Don't hurt us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I paraphrased a bit. Here's what a rep actually said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Today, we’ve seen an incredible outpouring of support and nostalgia around MS Paint. If there’s anything we learned, it’s that after 32 years, MS Paint has a lot of fans. It’s been amazing to see so much love for our trusty old app. Amidst today’s commentary around MS Paint we wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight, clear up some confusion and share some good news: MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Phew! My feelings can be best expressed through this evergreen Lady Gaga tweet:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"84441635211059201"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone (for a few hours). Now that we've been reminded of how deep our love and affection goes for this messy tech relic, I expect us all to forgo Photoshop next time we want to make ourselves look younger in a photo. Paint bucket tool or bust!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/93848/ms-paint-resurrected-from-the-dead-after-90s-internet-kids-whine-enough","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_5"],"tags":["pop_646","pop_595"],"featImg":"pop_93886","label":"pop"},"pop_22951":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_22951","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"22951","score":null,"sort":[1461343978000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"earth-day-salute-your-shorts-taught-me-everything-i-know-about-environmentalism","title":"Earth Day: 'Salute Your Shorts' Taught Me Everything I Know About Environmentalism","publishDate":1461343978,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent trip back East to visit my family, I made them buy a huge recycling bin and educated them on the importance of not throwing styrofoam containers out of the car window on the highway (no, really) and instead treating our planet with respect. Sure, living in San Francisco for nearly ten years has definitely turned me into more of a hippie than I was upon arrival (I chant in yoga and have been known to keep browning banana skins and other organic detritus in my bag until I can deposit them in my compost bin at home), but the foundation of my Mother Earth-loving self was not born here, but in front of Nickelodeon in the early '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/22/earth-day-everything-i-know-i-learned-from-salute-your-shorts/screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6-40-16-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4085\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-4085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6.40.16-AM.png\" alt=\"zz ziff\" width=\"442\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6.40.16-AM.png 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6.40.16-AM-400x258.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Z.Z. Ziff and her signature Earth earrings. Photo: Nickelodeon\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's where I met Z.Z. Ziff of \u003cem>Salute Your Shorts\u003c/em>, a short-lived show about various trouble-making teens and their obnoxious counselor \"Ug\" at a summer camp called Camp Anawanna. There was the ginger bully and his dim sidekick, the All-American boy, the geek, the prima donna, the sporty girl, \u003ca href=\"http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/mpb/index.php/salute-your-shorts-week-where-are-they-now-blake-soper/\">a Rilo Kiley member\u003c/a>, and, last but certainly not least, the animal-loving, tree-hugging environmentalist. While the other kids were giving into greed or jealousy or whatever other silly thing middle schoolers are into, Z.Z., with her Earth earrings and naive idealism was always the voice of reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And never moreso than in the season one finale, \"Environmental Party,\" in which she attempts to educate her peers about the irreparable damage humans are doing to our fragile planet. At first, she goes the enraged activist route, shutting off the power and water to send a message to her blow-drying, long-shower-taking room mates. She also turns their room into a recycling center. This does not go over well and she is asked: \"Are you out of your granola-munching, whole-wheat, tie-dyed save-the-planet mind?!\" Um, rude!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Z.Z.'s second approach is better: a catchy song about environmentalism! Sample lyric: \"If we don't change the way we live, we'll be covered in PUKE AND ROTTING GARBAGE! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!\" Despite being the best thing ever written (sorry, Marcel Proust), the kids think she's insane and end up food-fighting and moshing 'cause why the hell not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGWna3OIuuU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, with the help of a Greek trash collector so stereotypical that his last name is \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=spanakopita&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS503US503&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=oj91UYSLK6LhiAKSvoGgCA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=854\">Spanakopita\u003c/a> and he randomly exclaims Opa! for no reason (Tourette's?), Z.Z. gets through to her friends by informing them that they can actually make money from recycling! Being Americans, they respond well to this and, after some soul-searching, come to realize that Z.Z. is not crazy just because she cares about something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in honor of Earth Day, consider shedding your litter bug ways and being more like Z.Z. Ziff. If you happen to write an enraged compost-related song, please send it to me so it can keep \"Puke and Rotting Garbage\" company on my Love Me Some Gaia playlist. Oh, and \u003ca href=\"http://veehd.com/video/3246420_Salute-Your-Shorts-1x13-FINALE-Environmental-Party\">you can watch this entire life-defining episode here\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/22/earth-day-everything-i-know-i-learned-from-salute-your-shorts/\">originally published in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"My Earth-loving self was not born after moving to San Francisco, but in front of Nickelodeon in the early '90s.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461439143,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":546},"headData":{"title":"Earth Day: 'Salute Your Shorts' Taught Me Everything I Know About Environmentalism | KQED","description":"My Earth-loving self was not born after moving to San Francisco, but in front of Nickelodeon in the early '90s.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"22951 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=22951","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/22/earth-day-salute-your-shorts-taught-me-everything-i-know-about-environmentalism/","disqusTitle":"Earth Day: 'Salute Your Shorts' Taught Me Everything I Know About Environmentalism","path":"/pop/22951/earth-day-salute-your-shorts-taught-me-everything-i-know-about-environmentalism","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent trip back East to visit my family, I made them buy a huge recycling bin and educated them on the importance of not throwing styrofoam containers out of the car window on the highway (no, really) and instead treating our planet with respect. Sure, living in San Francisco for nearly ten years has definitely turned me into more of a hippie than I was upon arrival (I chant in yoga and have been known to keep browning banana skins and other organic detritus in my bag until I can deposit them in my compost bin at home), but the foundation of my Mother Earth-loving self was not born here, but in front of Nickelodeon in the early '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/22/earth-day-everything-i-know-i-learned-from-salute-your-shorts/screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6-40-16-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4085\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-4085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6.40.16-AM.png\" alt=\"zz ziff\" width=\"442\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6.40.16-AM.png 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-22-at-6.40.16-AM-400x258.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Z.Z. 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