The Miseducation of Y2K
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- y2k or not? y2k is a craze that took over pop culture in the late 90’s and early 000’s but is now becoming a catch all term for the entire 2000s decade.
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Let's get it straight:
Late 90s - 2002 - Y2K
2003-2007 - McBling
2008 - 2012 - Swag era
Respectable, but Y2K definitely didn’t last all the way to 2002
@@sosamanotf642 I agreed with someone down below in the comments that 9/11 essentially ended Y2K, but I still included 2002 in my comment, as in 2002 Kylie Minogue's Fever album and its corresponding singles, Can't Get You Out of My Head, In My Eyes and Love at First Sight were everywhere and they all had very strong Y2K aesthetic. Damn, fever album cover is considered a definite Y2K album cover!
@@Charlie-jl3ur Fever came out in 2001
@@skurinski 2002.
@@skurinski tail end of 2001 in Europe, February 26th, 2002 in the US
Y2K was essentially the end of 1998 to the end of 2001. In fact, September 11 ended the Y2K phase.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. By sep 11th it was the turning point.
Thank you. I remember being terrified as a kid during that time. I don't remember nothing fun.
@@twannifufu I like to think about it American Presidents regarding the eras, too. Bill Clinton was in office? Y2K. George W Bush was in office? McBling. Obama was in office? Post-McBling aka Minimalism and Indie Sleeze. Something we all were JUST subjected to before the current trend THAT Gen Z is trying to revive.
not everyone cares about usa and 11/9
It’s funny because I don’t really see people give missy flowers and sooo many people use her image as a blueprint it’s crazy because she is the definition of the y2k aspect
Other notable Y2K futuristic videos include
What’s it Gunna Be - Busta Rhymes
Bring it all to me - Blaque
808 - Blaque
Larger than life - Backstreet Boys
Scream - MJ & Janet
You Don’t Know- 702
Irresistible- Jessica Simpson
We need a resolution- Aaliyah
Virtual Insanity- Jimiroqui
Waiting for tonight- JLO
Unpretty - TLC
Omg...all of these!!
Doesn’t Really Matter and All for you by Janet
Her visuals really pioneered the era
OMG I forgot about Jimiroqui 😂 I thought he was sooo fancy as a lil kid watching music vids
@@theodorafyn oh yes I forgot to mention those. Most definitely
Alternative rock band Incubus had two music videos that screams Y2K with “Pardon Me” and “Stellar”
When I think of Y2K, not only do I think of the music videos from late ‘90s and the year 2000, but I, also, think of that SpongeBob episode where everything was chrome in the future.
FUTTTTUREEEEEEE
@@MarsDaStar420😂 I was just thinking this
This precisely
I think of things like Znon: Girl of the 21st Century.
The Matrix, Blade, XMen & Men in black are some good examples of films that encapsulates this era
EXACTLY, watched all these films, love them!
I've seen people misunderstand Y2K on the Internet too and get butt hurt when those who've lived through the era call it out. There is a huge cultural difference between y2k and mid 2000's.
They really do and I don't get it. I've even had gen z kids who get mad when you say millennials were known for "edgelord" humor due to the popular TV shows at the time which is a huge difference from today's humor/comedy and they get so mad. Like yall were still in diapers how you gonna tell me and more importantly why you upset...it ain't that deep lmao
Damn I really thought I was actually alive for that (born 2002) but nope :(
@@winglessfairy564 you don't appreciate the era you are born into until you are older and it becomes nostalgic/throwback. When I was a teen, we all wished we lived through the 60's.
Missy Elliot delivered during this era & went all out
Missy Elliott simply is Y2K embodied
I still say she's the queen of Hip Hop, especially during this era.
I went to her concert and she DELIVERED! Younger gens really need to learn about Missy because she is everything!
@@bharris4517you seen her on tour too?😂she’s was so good
"commentator Azealia Banks"
That's her alright
im not the only one who noticed omg😭
Literally her only profession at this point 😂
and we love it
I WAS LIKE OOOOO THE SHADE
her new music is actually good though..
She's just too controversial to become big with it or have much support from the industry (yknow, because she famously has beef with like everyone.. EVERYONE.. in the industry)
I recommend listening to her new stuff though it's really not bad
R.I.P. Aaliyah, you are sincerely missed angel ✨
People confuse MCbling (mid to late 00s) and Y2K (late 90s and early 00s) too much
Period! They’re just young and don’t know 💀
I’m probably one of them.
Is *NSYNC space Cowboy & Digital get down…y2k?
@@realSimoneCherieyes. As Y2K as it gets!
I HATE IT LIKE LITERALLY
They also confuse them with the Coconut Girl aesthetic as well
Nobody gonna talk about how MICHAEL & JANET SCREAM is basically the inspiration for TLC scrubs video … and the START OF FUTURISTIC MUSIC VIDEO TRENDS
Right - Mark Romanek's video for "Scream" was the precursor to the Y2K aesthetic movement in music videos.
ah yes, given credit to where it is not due - because Jackson is in the name
or even janet jackson ‘doesn’t really matter’ music video
@@jaysunsinterlude that was a year after No Scrubs
Right!!!
Left eye was responsible for pushing the futuristic image on Fanmail. Tboz and Chilli hated it and it caused some friction among the group. Blaque is a continuation for Left eye's futuristic vision.
Actually T-Boz & Chilli liked the futuristic image as well, unless I missed something.
@GameLover-pz5zc They weren't thrilled with the idea originally. But Left Eye came up with all of the ideas even before. So they went with it. If you notice, they never had another hit off LEFT EYE passed away.
@@kevinrentz8773i forgot what i watched but they said the exact same thing, Left Eye came up with those concepts but they weren’t thrilled with the idea.
I personally consider Y2K to be from 1997 to 2003. A lot of that aesthetic wasn't phased out until then.
In 2004, we saw the Bling Bling or Faux Low Budget become the go-to aesthetics until 2008.
Y2K was definitely not around by 2002.
2004....@@sosamanotf642
@@sosamanotf642it def was brandy’s full moon era was 2002 and her music video for “what about us?” is very y2k as well the album art
y2k is more a transitional era to the early 2000’s ppl think it’s the whole 2000’s decade. Destinys child whole run basically represents y2k. Or brandys career peak.
My dad worked for MBNA at the time, (major computer company) they had to stay overnight and sleep in the office to “handle this catastrophe” on new years
Yes OMG 😂
Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream” video(1995) and Brandy’s “Full Moon” album(2002) are other prime examples.
1995 is a bit too early for that
@@xBINARYGODx1996-very early 2004 is much better.
The Y2K bug is a practical example of active prevention being misunderstood in hindsight as fear-mongering. There was a threat, it was mitigated, it doesn't mean there was never a threat. Coders and the likes were putting in crazy ungodly hours to work on all sorts of fixes. The general public just didn't know all the work done in the background.
It depended on the company. My dad was not working overtime or on call anymore than his regular schedule. He said it was fear mongering then.
@@allie3482then someone else said their dad had to stay overnight for this so I guess it really does depend
uh sorry, but by the time the public got a hold of it and it all went viral, the problem had already been solved, and no, it was not some hush last minute push of people working long hours.
@@shanel4294 that not how that works
@@xBINARYGODx i don’t really care, why am I supposed to believe you over them, you’re all random strangers on the internet.
Who remembers Janet Jackson's "Doesn't Really Matter" Video
It’s getting to the point where artist are leaning heavily on older eras to push forward because it’s no authenticity now. younger generations are obsessed with older music and past decades because it’s effort put forth. Nothing seems authentic now or seems as if everyone is following the same trend. Just imo.
The Y2K era is really 1997-2002.
The early '00s (2000-2004)
Mid '00s (2005 & 2006)
Late '00s (2007-2009)
I felt 2004-2005 was the mid-00s period where 2006 could be included
Thinking 2006 is Y2K is like thinking Electropop Era is peak 2010s fashion and kids in 2016 dressed like the kids in Shake It Up & Victorious
I’m 30 and I absolutely love everything Y2K because it’s what I grew up on. But honestly, I’m really over this “Y2K” trend and am ready for it to end. It’s been played out and misused like crazy, and doesn’t feel authentic.
Y2k and McBling eras are soooo different but of course I was alive back then. I was in middle school once mcbling was in full swing. I think of trashy, gaudy, loud, cheetah print, layered colorful tank tops, oversized sunglasses, the hair bump and hello kitty chains and silly bandz and jersey shore (later on) 😂 i cringe so hard seeing mcbling outfits but it comes from a place of tween/early teen embarrassment for partaking in those trends myself. However, i loooove when the younger folks post their mcbling fits. I just can’t do it for myself 😂😂 but i will partake in y2k fashion as i was a baby/toddler the first go around
Y2k and McBling Combined is just so stunnnning
Futuristic stuff mixed with pink glitter stuff is fckn ICONIC
Michael and Janet’s SCREAM video was very futuristic too! I think it inspired a lot of the Y2K visuals from other artists.
Video for Doesn't Really Matter by Janet Jackson is so y2k to me
When ppl (not all but most) started lumping in media from 2005 - 2009 as “early 2000s” or Y2K I knew something was off.
Yep, I hate that and always have to correct it. It annoys me to know end. They call everything 'early 2000s.'
Missy was doing the Black Girl nerd thing way back in the day. We lost our minds back in the day when she did a Megaman Video. Girls might not have gotten back in the day but boys knew what that aesthetic was. Missy is really the Creative Genius that we think some of these Modern Artist are. Also, don’t be fooled. We all thought her voice was sexy too. 😊 I used to love Airplane ha ha.
I think Ice spice naming her album y2k is so she can profit off of something that’s trending rn, she knew it’d grab ppls attention especially gen z (mainly her audience) I doubt she put much thought behind the whole aesthetic which makes me think less of her as an artist, how are you gonna name an album & having nothing that correlates to it? Just makes me think she doesn’t take her craft seriously & she’s just in it for the quick cash grab & not acc talented artistically.
I get the whole aesthetic in her fashion perhaps, but even then I’d say she’s more of Mcbling aesthetic, I don’t see anything futuristic or y2k about her music / fashion.
@@Datgirl.- The point "she doesn't...talented artistically." is true as she is an industry plant.
not a fan of ice spice but she was born January 1st 2000 so that could be why.
Her album is named y2k because she's born in the year 2000 nothing to do with theny2k aesthetic
So sad @@inseungwoonamewestan1196
Did you just say “fear monJering”?! 😂
LOL
“Commentator Azalea Banks” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Everytime someone says "y2k stands for year 2000s" when im corecting them for mistaking it with mcbling style, i die
frr same here ppl on tiktok cant tell the difference between one year and an entire decade lmaoo i keep telling them it stands for the YEAR "2000" and not the entire decade
I was born the year 2000, the year everyone thought the world would end. Thankfully the world never ended and I’m blessed to be alive today!
Britney and Aaliyah super iconic Queens. Even until this day if i see and Aaliyah tribute or post I always take time and appreciate her.
Am I the only one who LOVES it when Honest posts videos? 😂❤
I missed the supermodel instrumental in the background!
Me almost crying over sum background music
I was a kid on New Year’s Eve in 1999 and I remember going to the store with my mom to grab some stuff and seeing so many empty shelves; very similar to how empty the shelves were during the pandemic. So many people actually thought that the world was gonna end on January 1, 2000. It’s very weird to me seeing Y2K be represented by things that are a stark contrast to what it really was. Especially when I grew up during that time and remember it being a futuristic craze. Everything was futuristic. I even had this baby pink and silver puffer and the shiny silver adidas shoes when I was a kid. Even putting glitter in my hair and on my arms and face too. Everything was silver and futuristic and glittery.
At one point i thought y2k was the whole decade of 2000-2009 but then i realized it stands for the year 2000.
In my opinion people on social media use the terms y2k, y2k aesthetic, 2000s, alt, alternative predominantly even if the style is more 2006 or late 2000s because hashtags like McBling, Harajuku, RomCom and Cybercore don't have as much prominence. It all goes down to what hashtag is the most popular or relevant in our algorithms. The more niche groups and subculture fashion/style of the 2000s and y2k don't have strong prominence in the algorithms compared to 2000s, y2k, grunge. So using hashtag like #scene #emo #hyperfeminine #cybercore #mcbling #romcomcore will only allow a small group of people to see your content whereas #y2k #2000s #alt will allow for grander exposure. And with these platforms: tiktok, insta, youtube where everyone wants to be see this definitely plays a role.
I remember my family had a huge new years party 1999. I was only 6yrs old but all i remember my cousins and i partying like were gonna die at midnight.. I remembee rhere was like idk an uncertainty about if things will still work or not once we enter 2000s.
My step grandma really believed all our appliances and cars and everything would either stop working or blow up.
Then when nothing happened after it ticked over it was like all forgotten lmao
Also do not forget the "Frutiger Aero" Design that was prevalent back then xD
That was a mid to late 2000’s thing
I remember NYE 1999 so vaguely, I was barely 7.
In NYC watching the ball drop with family, people murmuring about the “bug”. We had flashlights with us in case the lights went out ☺️😅
thx for the vid! I learned a lot from watching it. I always noticed a pattern when listening to songs from the Y2K era being futuristic (I knew abt the technical stuff behind Y2K being why it exists in the first place) but never really connected 2 n 2 together. Also this vid could def help out a lot of my peers 😭
Kylie Minogue too!!
Yes 'I can't get you out of my head' in 2001 ruclips.net/video/c18441Eh_WE/видео.html
So correct, even the comments about 'disco '
Yes! We need more videos like these! I'm so annoyed when I'm looking for Y2K items or music and get videos of stuff from mid to late '00. Mcbling, Motorola Razr, Paris Hilton all that c**p that isn't Y2K. For me Y2K started around 1995 and was pretty much over around 2003. I can even agree with people who say thay it ended in 2001 with WTC. For me Y2K is chrome or translucent plastic, futurism or aqua aesthetics (or combination of both!).
I’m lowkey happy that honest started incorporating the sza supermodel instrumental back to his videos 😭
The subtle sweet background music & your voice & lil education calmed me. Thank you ❤
I know he didn’t just say fear-monJuring😭
Fan mail was the first album o had a kid. My older cousin gave it to me. I was 7. Too young probably but it was what shifted me into loving music the way I do. The first track was ahead of its time.
Missy+Timbaland+Hype Williams were an AMAZING trio during this time that influenced so much of the Y2K movement!! I honestly dont understand why Ice Spice & her team are so lazy! They could have easily tapped into real Y2K by consulting/hiring the originators of the style!
Please do a video on Gracie abrams. I don’t get the hype
Overrated yt girl and nepo baby😹
Shes a great singer
I love the title of this video! 🩵
As someone who was on the board of y2k aesthetic institute and mcbling aesthetic research, one thing that bugs me is that we don’t acknowledge Post2k which is the bridge from y2k to mcbling, roughly 99-2003. We saw a bizarre mix of y2k into early mcbling in strange ways. Y2k hair and make up but outfits were more mcbling in style but with some y2k colors mixed in until we got to head to toe mcbling. By 2007-8 most y2k colors were replaced by earthy or like nudes.
This is what confuses people and blurs the eras together in a way that represents the miseducation imo.
Also
Y2k was even seen in the early 90s like in madonnas bedtime stories video. Specifically one scene where she is wearing silver metallic and looks cyborg esque.
2000 felt really different than 2009
Don't forget Scream by Michael and Janet. I think it was one of the pioneers of "futuristic" music videos
Yes, fan mail 100% is what comes to mind for me too. Thank you for pointing this out.
🎶 Just like you, I get lonely too 🎶
Thank you for this cause I’m so tired
The Y2K era was from the 1997-2002 or 2003.
Normani embodied Y2K well wild side and the futuristic vma performance of it
💙 the narrative 🩵
I was 12 in Y2K it kind of strange to see the Resurgence 😅❤
I would do a video on The Veronicas
I wonder if Taylor swifts 1989 album fits into the whole ice spice thing of “words have meanings” and or that the album name (1989)- should tie into the album sonically,visually and incorporating somehow in the project.
The girl group BLAQUE also contributed a lot to the y2k era put together by left eye herself
Hmmm, back in the day they would think of all sorts of spacey/future like things as well when technology was booming, but I guess the Y2K scare did kind of fuel the spacey look into clothes, music&movies even more! Which for some crazy reason I never thought of the Y2K as the main reason though.. I thought it was just mostly fashion etc repeating itself but modifying it a bit. They're really pushing everything electronical/spacey again.
No need to tell me what Y2K is. I was 15 going on 16 at the turn of the millenia. Do you even know what that means? What a time to be a teenager! What a time to be coming of age ❤
Azelia was playing with y2k style a decade ago, so it's kind of perfect she said something on it.
I'm so glad you made this because we got a bunch of children getting it all wrong lol
Remember I was 3 during the Y2K Scare in 99. I was born 96. Us born in the mid-90s have no or vague memories of the late 90s. Plus 2000 was never the millennium. Thr true millennium was 2001. Yet people celebrsted it a complete year too early. 2024 is the pan ultimate yesr of the first quarter of the 21st century. Y2K and 2-0-12 were never the end of the world. Just fesrmongering over a meteorite to hit the Esrth and a Mayan calendsr that resets 52 Yesrs after December 12th 2012(when I was 16). Next will be the 2-0-38 scsre after Y2K scare and 2-0-12 scare. Thr Y2K bug was never the extinction of mankind on planet Esrth. Yet people panicked over the results of the year 00 with computers. People thought there would be a meteorite to end us all. Doom and panic for us all on planet Esrth. Yet it never happened. Despite BSB Millennium album, Fan Mail Scrubs, Opps I Did It Again, JLO, and Missy Elliot Bitch. Playing onto the fesr just like 20-12’a fesr with Kesha Lady Gaga and Britney again. Both times fesr and panic at the strike on midnight.
This is why we have things like… music history and even music theory. Lol. I know it’s not common for MOST people to know that but it exists for a reason.
The title of this video perfectly describes the brainrot that the humanity goes through.We really went from Lauryn Hill to Ice Spice😂
I was a fresh teen in the early 00s it was a wonderful time glad I experienced it.
LOVE TLC!! Rip Aaliyah
It’s so weird that my time period is a trend now, but like misrepresenting it.
clock it !!!
Remember Will Smith's "Willennium"? He went all in on Y2K as well.
I Consider Y2K 1995 Through 2005
I miss the 2000s. Too many people try to copy everything from it in today's world and they can't. And I don't care anything for Ice Spice's trash music/album
people in the 2000s did not have skincare ruined their skin with suntans and was obsessed with starving yourself
at least now there is more information and easier resources
@@HudaAbdulahi Don’t forget the amount of misogyny on women in media and the War on Terror.
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 oh yeah the public were ruthless to women back then no mercy was given
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 I did not know about the war of terror I only researched it now I am british. I find it crazy how america can commit the worst war crimes and yet claim to be a country of love and freedom
if anything I would call this era neo-y2k because it’s not like Y2K fully but there’s some characteristics
These kinds of videos might begin to blow up.
One thing about my boy Honest he gone mispronounce something, but he gonna spit facts while doing so lol
To give ice spice her credit, her coachella performance was amazing. She had a held screen that she turned on during the show and it gave me y2k vibes for sure. Her entire stage setup was super colorful and fun. She didnt miss a beat on her rapping either, she really was impressive
2:36 where r the 99 baby’s
A lot of the time these eras being around the middle of a given decade and not he very beginning of the like a lot of people may think trying to categories them in a way that neatly follows the names some are given e.g. as explained in the video Y2K began mid to late 90s and ended in the actually 00s. Thinking of the music that began the 90s is remembering the grudge rock and ballads and end of the mid 80s style of synth Pop with gated snare drums and orchestral hits.
Hi Honest can you make a video on George Michael and his impact on the music industry similar to a documentary. Can you also make a Eternal Sunshine review please. 💚😁
I've never heard of Y2K before,thanks honest.❤😮
Seriously? I assume 1992 is the year you were born and thus were of age when it was hyped up. Maybe you forgot.
Gave me 2 new albums to explore
Love this video!❤️🫶
When u gon speak on Megan’s album
Camila is the only one who is doing y2k right in my opinion.
And not well.
This happens all the time. The did the same to the other decades and their styles
There's a whole documentary about the time/hour thing, called "time bomb Y2k". It was a lot more chaotic than you made it out to be ahhaah but the rest of the video, I totally agree with it. Getting tired of people connecting Y2k fashion (for example) to those 2000s ridiculous outfits from disney's channel red carpets 🗣️
Side note: the background music almost made me click out of the video. It gives off a contradicting feeling to what you are saying, it was too generic, too "elevator music". Don't know how to explain :/ sorry
JANET JACKSON WAS THE Y2K QUEEN IN ‘DOESNT MATTER’ 🤖🛸
Yes you better recognize TLC the legends!!!
So are you saying that y2k aesthetic is only futuristic/spacey cyber punk? Because if anything I think of Cheetah Girls, Bratz, and girly type of aesthetics before i think of aliens idk
Yeah MC Bling aesthetic!!! Ok yeah ig that’s not categorized as y2k. Damn my life was a LIEEEEEE
isn't y2k just 1998/2001
I love me some Missy Elliot. Ugh, the talent.
where is the Katy Perry video
Honest, it's mongering with a "guh" sound. Not like how you said "monjering." Lol❤❤❤