Reese Oliver
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1,229 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Yeah.
I think in the first iteration of Y2K, the emphasis on self-expression was a lot more so about experimentation.
And in this iteration of Y2K, it's about solidification.
It's about selecting one of many options for an identity and then building an entire ethos around it.
It's like,
picking the box that you categorize into.
Yeah.
I think it's just like the marriage of social dynamics and capitalism that just keeps pushing this idea of like branding being an end all be all.
Even, you know, there was colloquialism going around at the beginning of the year about 2026 rebrands, which was like a TikTok trend and lighthearted and joke.
But just the idea that we're moving away from resolutions and this idea that we should like
pick one new thing to try or explore or experiment with and try to better ourselves through it and instead pick a new identity to push outward to the people who consume you.
It's just, it feels a little, as you mentioned, doomsday, which brings me to my next question, a big marker of
The first wave of Y2K was this end of the world panic around technology where so many people, especially young people, were convinced that at the turn of the millennia, the world would dramatically end at midnight because technology could not conceive of time moving past the year 2020.
Can you think of any similar moments, say, in recent history that we could have experienced that panic where things started to get a wee bit culty?
Piggybacking off of what you were saying, Amanda, like about how maybe Britney Spears or the Spice Girls or Destiny's Child could be looked at as cult leaders of Y2K fashion and, you know, the noughties.
But then if you look at the cult leader's
of Y2K fashion today.
You might look at someone like Tate McRae is like basically wearing all of the same trends and fashion looks as the heroes of the knots.
Olivia Rodrigo wears a lot of the same like schoolgirl Harajuku core outfits that Gwen Stefani did in her No Doubt days and her
early music days so basically everything that's old is new again my question for you is like why does y2k fashion feel like almost tribal in that when you're walking down the street and you see a group of five to ten teen girls all in their like brandy melville drip you know what you're seeing and the hair is on the back of your arms raised and you're like they are approaching they are here
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