Are we still living in 1999?

Are we still living in 1999?

1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times, by Ross Benes, University Press of Kansas, 296 pages, $32.99 In 1982, Prince first sang that he planned to party "like it's 1999." But on New Year's Eve of 1998, as MTV counted down to the actual year 1999, it wasn't the Purple One who performed that song in Times Square. As Ross Benes notes in his new book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted…

The Race to the Bottom: A Review of Ross Benes's '1999' - Front Porch Republic

It never fails—whenever Benes defends low culture, he does so in the exact terms that he ought to be using to criticize it