*beat boxin’* It’s gonna be ME! Not an article, just a cute video of my fave boy band, NSYNC, meeting Ultraman and performing ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ on Japanese TV in, I think, 2000. Not quite the 90s, but close enough to give me nostalgic goose bumps! You can check out the beginning of the song at about 2:47, but I definitely suggest watching the whole video as the boys are surprised by a visit from Ultraman! And it’s flipping adorable. How do we get along without them?
Retro-a-Gogo: Surge Citrus Soda from Coca-Cola (1997)
Welp, here’s a blast from my past that I haven’t had time to crack open. A couple of years ago (2014, I believe?) Coca-Cola breathed new life into the 1997 citrus-flavored Surge soda that they’d discontinued back in 2002. Sort of like the Mountain Dew’s big city cousin, Surge was sold as EXTREME — which is the way they sold a lot of things to us in the eighties and nineties. It’s sort of got a lemon-lime thing going on and is, I do not lie, radioactive green in color. I found this at my local…
Retro-a-Gogo: Fetish Cosmetics Soo Winkable Eyeshadow & Perfume (1997)
So, I’m still not over my midlife crisis. More 1990s! This time it’s Fetish Cosmetics from 1997. Soo Winkable Eyeshadow in 5701 Soul Searching and the brand perfume from the House of Dana. The same bastards that make Navy. It smells really astringent at first, then white floral. Kinda nice.