To help celebrate EW’s 20th birthday, I threw a party in my office. But nobody came; Ausiello was having a special sale on decorative stickers next door. (Ugh, if you’re bored enough, go vote for that freak to become PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian of 2010.) So instead I sat at my desk in a New Kids on the Block knotted tee and Kelly Kapowski-esque print leggings and wrote this crazy photo gallery about the year 1990. Electric Slide your way down the rabbit hole and click through it Step By Step. Then page your friends to talk about it! Of course, there’s a bunch of nostalgia we missed (like Mariah Carey’s debut), so tell us what lingers with you the most. What was your VISION OF LOVE from 1990?
In conclusion, the following serves as my answer to the headline and an inside tip for anyone with “a case of identity”: You can still buy Caboodles.
EW Turns 20! hub: Looking back at two decades of covering the best (and worst) in pop culture
If I could go back in time to 1990 I would’ve tried to put a stop to 9/11, the BP oilspill, and EW’s overexposure of all things Twilight.
Haha. Those were indeed three of the biggest horrors.
Nice to see you’ve got your priorities straight.
EW would get rid of the ads for the Lost collector issues, which have the worst close-ups ever of any actor and for somebody to tell those Kardashian sisters that they’re all fat.
I miss cute, sober Paula Abdul who sang great pop songs and could bust a move. “Straight Up”, “Coldhearted”, “Forever Your Girl” and “Opposites Attract” are great pop songs!
This is a very, very easy question: Santa Barbara.
AGREED!!!!!
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I got married in 1990. Seriously regret the great, big, puffy-sleeved wedding dresses of that era. I don’t have one photo that doesn’t look ridiculous.
I also got married in 1990 with the same big puffy-sleeved type of dress but I don’t regret the dress as much as I do the guy I married!
I miss watching Ninja Turtles, Garfield, and Super Mario on Saturday mornings.
Love Garfield & Friends! U.S. Acres was great too.
For me, 1990 was just about the time good music started to decline for me. Sure there was a small handful of artists to come out in that time, but there was a lot more garbage to weed through. That still holds true today.
It was nice to actually go into a record store and buy a CD back then. Just flipping through an artist’s catalog in the store was a pleasure. Now, all of that is basically gone.
Well, I was a petulant thirteen year old (wait…math, yes, thirteen), so seriously…how about those abusive slap bracelets? Now kids are playing with rubber bands shaped like animals..just odd.
I was in college at that time, so I miss the frat parties. And all of my grandparents and parents were still alive then, so I definitely miss that the most!
I was four in 1990 so I dont remember much but the music. That includes MC Hammer, Paul Abdul, Rick Asley, Mariah Carey, New Kids on the block and TLC. I loved the 90′s…
Sorry her name is Paula not Paul
Oh and the Mickey Mouse club… Wish I could go back in time
Here’s what I miss about EW in 1990. The articles used a type size that wasn’t hard on the eyes (now I have to use a loupe to read anything). EW didn’t obsess about teen-oriented crap (Twilight, etc.). And they also didn’t force their gay agenda down the readers throats.
Are you sure the type size has gotten smaller, or have your eyes just gotten 20 years older? (The Gay Agenda thing is spot on, though.)
Considering that such a major portion of the artistic, entertainment, and journalistic community involves the gay population, it’s ridiculous to assume that anything with an entertainment bent WOULDN’T be supportive of the gay culture that actually creates a good deal of that art, entertainment, journalism, etc.
Yes.
It’s sort of like saying that certain entertainment outlets push the “Jewish agenda”, when in reality, a disproportionate number of Jews are actually involved in entertainment, Broadway, film making, etc, so to not cover them would go against the purpose of the magazine (or whatever the news outlet is).
EW’s “Gay Agenda”? So for how long exactly have you and Brett been reading the special EW stories that only you can see? Does the magazine TALK to you as well? Maybe you should take off your tin hat and go talk to a doctor about whatever psychosis is obviously troubling you.
I myself am awfully sick of the whole Men’s Agenda pushed so relentlessly by EW. It’s like, why do they feature so many stories about dudes??? Skarsgard Your Loins, Heaveage, Guillermo del Toro leaving the Hobbit movies and Peter Jackson still not directing, all those articles about male actors – why do I care about the roles they’re playing? Why should I have to read all these stories about men when I myself am a woman?? The NERVE. The SELF-ABSORPTION. The AGENDA! Ugh, if I wanted to read about and support men, I’d go to some other fluffier site – EW is supposed to be hard-hitting news, you know. Stop trying to preach that it’s okay to be a man when we all know that men are sinful beings!!
I loved the Mickey Mouse Club. Interesting how so many of them went on to be famous.
My regret: That Christmas my parents gave us $100 cash instead of presents. I spent $93 on New Kids on the Block stuff.
I miss “Twin Peaks,” but it was getting too far out at the end anyway. (Though David Duchovny as a cross-dressing FBI agent was inspired.)
Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour … seminal, controversial and just amazing.