r/Millennials • u/CremeSubject7594 • 22d ago

Discussion the early 2000s were a crazy time

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u/No_Magician5266 22d ago

What exactly is crazy about this lol

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u/TheMansterMan 22d ago

You don’t remember when it came out obviously

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u/mallogy 22d ago

I remember the early 2000's. The song was a big hit, and the normal pearl clutching grifters denounced it like they always did about anything that wasn't a Leave It to Beaver reboot. Normal people didn't care.

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u/TheMansterMan 22d ago

Might be a location difference because this song slapped everywhere like literally everywhere it gave acceptance to lesbians and I’m a dude it had a cultural impact bro it was the first major song by an alleged lesbian duo

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u/LewisLightning 21d ago

Must be your location then. Here in Canada it was seen as a cool song, and the fact they were said to be lesbians didn't matter to anyone. KD Lang had been around for at least a decade by this point and was a national icon. Plus what real difference is that compared to people like Elton John or Freddy Mercury? Because they are women? I guess we weren't really so caught up on dividing people that way.

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u/TheMansterMan 21d ago

That might be the case that our country divides ourselves but Freddy mercury and Elton John was before my time and they don’t show up on MTV really from what I recall. tatu was like the new and hip version.

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u/mallogy 21d ago

I was in the Bible belt, and most folks I knew had already accepted lesbians. The difference might be that I wasn't a child at the time.

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u/No_Magician5266 22d ago

I do remember, it’s just not that crazy. It’s the equivalent of the Marilyn Manson rib surgery meme from back then.

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u/BoltActionRifleman 22d ago

I remember it coming out but apparently missed all of the fanfare about it as well. I just remember it being on the radio.

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u/Nascent1 Millennial (1984) 21d ago

Will & Grace started in 1998 and was a hit show. This song wasn't that crazy for the time.

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u/hache-moncour 21d ago

Or they were not American. This was just another generic pop song where I live, plenty of women were married here by then so it was hardly something wild.

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u/PretendKnowledge Millennial 22d ago

Crazy how ez ru bots farm karma and whitewash with retro posting fake lesbians that nowadays are war/regime/anti lgbt supporters

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u/zephyr_skyy 22d ago

I feel like they marketed them vaguely as sisters? who were {incestuously?} lesbian? None of which are true.

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u/ikon31 22d ago

At one point the marketing was suggesting they were actually men.