Generation X Is Having Its (Nostalgia) Moment
Pop Literacy
English - October 10, 2019 01:09 - 1 hour - 142 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSociety & Culture TV & Film popculture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It’s the smallest of the three generations currently ruling the world—sandwiched between Boomers and Millennials—but Gen X is not skimping on its nostalgia moment, probably because its defining trait is an (ironic, post-modern, skeptical) embrace of pop culture. This week, we run through the many current and upcoming revisitings of Gen X culture, including a book by Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley, Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill in Broadway musical form, the 25th anniversary of Reality Bites, Hootie & the Blowfish’s reunion tour, the recent death of John Singleton, that Jeffersons and All in the Family live reenactment, and cohost Kimberly Potts’s upcoming Brady Bunch book.
Links to some of these and more:
Vanity Fair on Why Generation X Might Be Our Last, Great Hope Andrew Ridgeley’s Wham!, George Michael, and Me: a Memoir Hootie & the Blowfish tour Wu-Tang Clan tour Wu-Tang: An American Saga on Hulu Liz Phair’s Horror Stories: A Memoir Ani DiFranco’s No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir Jagged Little Pill on Broadway Jay & Silent Bob Reboot Kimberly Potts’ The Way We All Became the Brady Bunch