garbage, still at it.

do you like it? i think it seems fine.

90s broadway #tbt

This runs a little long, but can we please talk about 90s Nathan Lane, and how he kinda sorta has a little Ms. Danglez fashion sensibility happening? Also, I love this song. I just do.

trend alert?

with the 9th annual international cornhole cup rapidly approaching (june 14, jicyww), i've been brushing up on what the kids are listening to, and i noticed a thing.


this is a new song by jeremih featuring YG, which i shared with you as a potential song of the summer. it features a (pretty loose) sample from 90's clurb anthem "rhythm is a dancer".




this is a new song by kid ink featuring chris brown, and i noticed it sounded pretty much exactly the same. the sample in this one is from the 90's clurb anthem "show me love" by robin s.


the answer to this riddle is that both tracks were produced by some guy named dj mustard, who is clearly phoning it in. you can recognize him by his "mustard on tha beat" calling card. i guess it's not really a trend if it's just one guy repeating the same formula. i hope it catches on though because i'm enjoying the aesthetic.

on a side note: what are the odds that two songs called "show me love" would be released in the same year by people named robin / robyn?


UPDATE: ugh here's another song that sounds exactly the same.


come on, dj mustard.

the new toni braxton album is #normcore

After years of being told she was dated, that "the old Toni Braxton way is played out", she had to be coaxed back into the studio at all, let alone to write songs: "At first, I was just venting, not making music." But eventually, a new project began to take shape. The scars from her recent divorce were still fresh; Edmonds's own marriage had ended after 13 years in 2005. Braxton, still reeling from self-doubt, felt she wasn't ready to make a solo album. For 20 years, the two had occasionally mooted the idea of a collaborative album, but there had never been a pressing reason to make it. Now, there was. The result is Love, Marriage & Divorce, a multifaceted look at the arc of a relationship (the emphasis, unsurprisingly, is on the D of the title) that's by turns wry, confused, lustful and vindictive. It sounds more 90s than any amount of current 90s revivalism, but less due to nostalgia than a "rebirth" after years of trying to chase trends for Braxton. via

spotifriday

i just went down a 90s alternative rabbithole today, and pulled a little something together. remember these?

who was the last Miss USA to win Miss Universe

the year: 1997

the girl: Miss USA, Brook Lee (Miss Hawaii)

the look: flawless

daily ri ri

word on the street is that the song jump from rihanna's new album apologetic features a sample of starla's favorite 90s jam, pony by ginuwine. according to mtv, ginuwine is thrilled. #cantwait

i just thought you might like this as much as i did while singing karaoke last night at gagopa

this is my second favorite azealia banks song

it's 90's TASTIC!

how many references can you spot? tell us in the comments. i'll start.

do you ever miss the previous millenium?

sounds like manslaughterer brandy does too, because her (awesome) new song will take you right back to 1998. also, SHOW US THE NOTE BRANDY!!!

peep this

the long awaited Azealia Banks EP 1991 was finally released. It is 4 songs long... dig it.

i knew it!

i thought i recognized cosgrove's fiance and it's because it is 90's tween star alex mack! 

starla has a new neighbor

jeremy lin is now living at the W hotel downtown, just a stones throw (or bounce pass) away from one of new york's most eligible bachelorettes.

spotifriday - not to be outdone

today i am listening to the jams that were on the radio (remember 96X?) vaguely around the time we were in high school.

nirvana, hole, garbage, weezer, fiona apple, tracy chapman, green day, etc.


alternateen friday over here.

dream of the 1890's

i thought that died out 120 years ago!

never forget

who knew.

Barack Obama, 28, photographed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Vanity Fair’s June 1990 issue, after being elected president of the Harvard Law Review. (via)

raise your hand if you remember this song.

this song reminded me of it.

remember?

new ashanti song

remember not too long ago when we were wondering who (if not ashanti) would be filling fergie's bra in the black eyed peas? well it still isn't ashanti, but here look at this... a new ashanti song featuring bust rhymes. it feels like 1997 up in here. your move ja rule. via.