Pop-culture WI: When does the US nostalgia for 1990's surface?

It kind of already is in the US, just look at the whole "90s kid" thing. But that's been around for a while now, and is only now beginning to affect things.
I wonder about this. This is anecdotal, but from my POV the "90s kid" meme really started to take off around the time of the Great Recession. I wonder if it was not, in part, fuelled by teens and young adults entering into an unstable job market and longing for the stability of their childhood. If I'm not imagining things, then the 90s would be well-primed for a re-evaluation as a "golden age" akin to the 50s (and would be just as myopic, of course).
 
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I wonder about this. This is anecdotal, but from my POV the "90s kid" meme really started to take off around the time of the Great Recession. I wonder if it was not, in part, fuelled by teens and young adults entering into an unstable job market and longing for the stability of their childhood. If I'm not imagining things, then the 90s would be well-primed for a re-evaluation as a "golden age" akin to the 50s (and would be just as myopic, of course).
Is a middle baby boomer, 1956, late 70s early 80s through say 87 where are my favorite times. I graduated college in 1978 to one of the shittiest economies we've had in a long time thank you Jimmy Carter I had 10 years of baby boomers ahead of me who got the good jobs however I moved to Boston in Boston is usually out of sync with the rest of the country as far as the economy and they were just getting over Michael Dukakis destruction of the economy by electing Governor Cain who in 4 years did a really good job of getting things back to normal so to be honored and treated well they voted back into caucus and it's like being on the road but still the 80s were my Roaring Twenties. By the time the 90s hit I was 34 and had to worry about house payments car payments career and in general it was just kind of a blah decade living on the East Coast wages were not Rising very well at all during that time I didn't pick back up until around 2000 where I lived. And although I'll probably be stoned to death for saying us instead of having her president discuss nuclear proliferation with his daughter Amy he was like 12 it was nice to have an actor who made us think everything was okay even if it wasn't I think his optimism went a long way. My partner at the time always said that the 90s we're just kind of doll and blah. I agreed. The main bad thing that I got in my memory of the 80s was KAL007 being shot down in Cold Blood by the Soviets I really did think that was going to take us into World War 3 the funny thing is for a city as liberal is Boston and Providence Rhode Island Jordy two people I know really would have liked to taking it out on the Russians. In all fairness a lot of them didn't look at the whole picture. That just shows to the world the brutality of the USSR. And before you come back and say of the United States shot down a commercial airliner that's a lot different than stalking it 4 hours before shooting it down and the US had like 10 minutes to decide whether to shoot down a plane that wasn't answering normal radio frequencies for commercial traffic and ingrate towards the fleet after we just have the Cole incidents right Cole incidents right before. Had a chance to go back and live part of your life over again I would choose 79 to 87 or 88.
 
While we are starting to see 1990s nostalgia popping up, I'd say it'll really kick off in the 2020s. These things seem to happen in 30 year cycles (50s nostalgia in the 80s, 80s nostalgia in the 2010s), I guess because the people who grew up in that era have all become adults by that point
 
While we are starting to see 1990s nostalgia popping up, I'd say it'll really kick off in the 2020s. These things seem to happen in 30 year cycles (50s nostalgia in the 80s, 80s nostalgia in the 2010s), I guess because the people who grew up in that era have all become adults by that point

Interesting formulation. Partly because of the popularity of Happy Days in the 1970s, I've always sort of had the idea that nostalgia follows a 20 year cycle, ie. the 70s were nostalgic for the 50s, the 90s were nostalgic for the 70s(eg. That 70s Show). But your idea could very well have merit too.

And I wonder what impact, if any, the lack of names for the early 21st Century decades will have on how they are conceptualized in nostalgia. There isn't any common agreement of what to call the years from 2000 to 2009, for example, so will this have an impact on how, or even if, they are talked about when the time comes around for their canonization?

"Have you seen that new show Homeland Kids? It's like, total zeroes nostalgia."
 

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Again, this isn't something we need to wonder about. Alice in Chains reunited and are going strong, and both Soundgarden and STP had reunited and put out an album before their singers' untimely departures. Looking beyond grunge, Smashing Pumpkins saw 3/4th of their classic line-up reunite (albeit to… mixed results); same with Pixies; Trent Reznor is back making industrial rock as Nine Inch Nails; My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Ride all reunited and put out new music… and so on and so forth. 90s rock bands are alive and well.
Sleater Kinney had an album semi-recently(2015) and plans to make another album in the next couple of years.
 
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