90s nostalgia
This trend in music confuses me a little bit. Sometimes when a song recreates the aesthetic of the 90s too well, I feel some of the negative emotions I felt during childhood—really lonely, isolated, and voiceless. I also had a lot of privilege during childhood and felt a lot of joy, so I don’t mean to dismiss the whole period in my life.
Still, though I did not have a tragic childhood, I had a hard one. When my parents split up, I was about 4 years old, and everything destabilized (including our financial situation) for years and years and years. Both my parents were suddenly responsible for doing the work of two people, and neither really knew how.
Once when I was eight I called my dad and told him how badly I wanted to be an adult and leave home. He told me it was only 10 more years, and while that might seem like a lot right now, it isn’t in the scheme of things. But he was wrong. 10 years is a long, long, long time and I felt every second of it passing. Ironically, I couldn’t tell you how my life managed, gradually, to get better since early childhood. I just woke up one day and it was all gone.
Does no one else have any negative emotions associated with childhood? I mean, No Age, Wavvvvvvves, and their ilk—was it all slip n slides and candy with you people?
