Such has been the success that corporate America AND AUSTRALIA has been quick to cash in on the popularity of action sports. Advertisers from sports-equipment manufacturers or clothing stores such as Billabong, to Mountain Dew soft-drink makers to milk producers have used extreme athletes as spokespeople. Here is a compilation of extreme sports videos.
Some describe her as the epiphany of fashion, and tonight she is our guest, TASSHHHHHH!
Please describe to our audience, what fashion designs and or changes occurred in the 1990s and 2000s.
Fashion
The 1990s in popular culture is typically referred to as the decade of "anti-fashion". In reality, anti-fashion was only one of many trends in fashion in the 1990s. The fashion of the 1990s was characterized by minimalist styles, and many overlapping, often contradictory trends.
The dominant youth clothing fad in the early 1990s was fluorescent or neon colours, which became popular in the late 1980s. Fluorescent clothing was associated with cool, summer themes like surfing and influence by the motive of the beach. The five fluorescent colours were blue, green, orange, pink, and yellow. Fluorescent clothing was especially popular with teenage and pre-teen girls. Fluorescent clothing included t-shirts, sweatshirts, socks, shoelaces, hair scrunchies, and fanny packs. In 1991, fluorescent colours were replaced by colours such as coral, hot pink, and turquoise.
A variety of fashions influenced by the hippie era 0s also became popular in the early 1990s. Tie dye shirts, which had reemerged as a style in 1988, remained popular, and fit well with the bright colours. Round sunglasses based on the granny style glasses of the late 1960s became popular, and remained popular through 1994. Hippie-inspired fashion continued throughout the grunge era, and nicely complimented the grunge look. Bell-bottom jeans and Crocheted vests also became popular among girls and young women in 1993.
In 1996, colours such as orange and yellow became popular, amidst what was characterized a 1970s revival. Fads of 1996 included the happy face, and peace sign necklaces. Hip hugger flare-leg jeans became popular among teenaged and pre-teen girls. Corduroy fabric became popular for pants and overalls, sometimes abbreviated to "cords". Chords also became popular in colours such as black, tan, and grey. Corduroy continued as a trend through 2001.
The most important event in 1990s fashion was the rise of Grunge fashion in 1992, due to the mainstream success of the grunge band Nirvana and their hit song "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Grunge fashion was influenced by grunge music, which achieved mainstream popularity in 1992. The grunge style resulted in a decline in bright colours, and was dominated by plaid flannel shirts, stonewashed blue jeans, and dark colours like maroon, forest green, indigo, and brown. White and black were also popular colours in grunge style.
Grunge fashion popularized Doc Martens style shoes and boots, tan work boots, and high-top sneakers in red, indigo, forest green, and black (such as Chuck Taylor All-Stars). It emphasized long hair, which most teen and pre-teen girls already had, and which a few teen and pre-teen boys adopted. Grunge fashion was a unisex phenomenon. Although the grunge look was considered "anti-fashion", the fashion industry made it a distinct fashion style by selling plaid items like hooded sweatshirts, sweatshirt vests, long sleeved t-shirts and shorts. Grunge fashion remained popular through 1994.
Golf shirts became part of the new post-grunge style in 1995. Skater shoes became more popular, coinciding with a rise in skateboarding. Granny-style sunglasses were replaced by wraparound sunglasses, which remained more or less popular for the remainder of the 1990s. Teenaged and pre-teen boys adopted shorter hair, especially the buzz cut, but a few maintained the long hair of the grunge style. T-shirts became more form fitting, especially for women, with the advent of the baby doll t-shirt.
Sagging remained popular in the late 1990s among some teenaged boys and young men. Sagging is a style worn by teenage and young men in which their shorts, jeans or pants are worn low, usually below their hips and sometimes under their butt as well depending on the sagger. Their underwear, however, is not worn lower and thus one can usually see the underwear of the sagger. Fancy boxer shorts became popular, and many guys showed them off by wearing their pants low so that people could see their boxers. Saggers wore baggy pants, in stark contrast to some of the more fitted styles from the late 1990s.
Punk and alternative styles were common by 1996, including short, spiky hair, black t-shirts, black work pants, wraparound sunglasses, and skater shoes. Many punk and alternative teenagers dyed their hair colours like blue, green, and fuchsia. In 1997, the 1980s Goth trend resurged among teenagers, featuring black clothing, long or back-combed black hair, studded bracelets, and black boots. The Punk and goth styles survived into the 2000s in modified forms. The emo fashion slightly entered the mainstream in 1998-1999. It featured tight, black drain-pipe jeans, rock band t-shirts, and long hair in a form of a sidebang.
Now, our next guest tonight has been described as one of the best and most influential music analysist in the whole world. He has loved by some and hated by many, he is AAROOONNN PERSSSSSONNNN!
Music
This was the piece that started it all.
The 1990s in music will be remembered for the variety of styles and the creation of new sub-genres.
Rock was dominated by slick and commercial glam metal, hair metal and arena rock artists influenced by MTV and its excessive focus on image and style. Disaffected by this, bands in Washington state (particularly in the Seattle area) formed a new style of rock music which sharply contrasted the mainstream rock of the time.
The developing genre came to be known as "grunge", a term meaning "dirt" or "filth. Grunge fused elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal into a single sound, and made heavy use of guitar distortion, fuzz and feedback. The lyrics were typically apathetic and angst-filled, and often concerned themes such as social alienation and entrapment.
Grunge remained largely a local phenomenon until 1991, when Nirvana broke into the mainstream. This band were more melodic than their predecessors and were instant sensations worldwide, but they refused to buy in to corporate promotion and marketing mechanisms. During 1991 and 1992, other grunge bands such as Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and L7 gained a wider audience. Commercial rock and metal faded almost completely from the mainstream.
While grunge itself can be seen as somewhat limited in range, its influence was felt across many geographic and musical boundaries; many artists who were similarly disaffected with commercial rock music suddenly found record companies and audiences willing to listen, and dozens of disparate acts positioned themselves as alternatives to mainstream music; thus alternative rock emerged from the underground.
With the death of Kurt Cobain, rock and roll music searched for a new face, sound, and trend. A second wave of alternative rock bands began to become popular, with grunge declining in the mid-90s. A fusion of pop music and punk rock, known as pop punk had been around since the 80s. In 1994 pop punk bands like Green Day and The Offspring brought the genre, to the mainstream with their multi-platinum selling albums Dookie and Smash respectively. As the 90s progressed other pop punk bands like NOFX and blink-182 also experienced success.
The 1990s saw the advance in the hip-hop genre and the creation of its sub-genre gangsta rap. Words such as “phat”, “dawg”, “da bomb”, and phrases such as “wassup” and “my homie” became popular due to its use in gangsta rap music. In the 90s, gangsta rap became mainstream, beginning in about 1992, with the release of Dr. Dre's The Chronic.
This album established a style called G Funk, which soon came to dominate West Coast hip hop. Later in the decade, record labels based out of Atlanta, St. Louis and New Orleans gained fame for their local scenes. By the end of the decade, especially with the success of Eminem, hip hop was an integral part of popular music, and nearly all American pop songs had a major hip hop component.
The early 2000s saw a major change. In the wake of declining sales following the deaths of superstar artists such as Tupac, the sounds of hip hop were greatly diversified. Most important was the rise of Southern rap, which included the band OutKast.
Also in the 1990s, rapcore (a fusion of hip hop and heavy metal) became popular among mainstream audiences. Rage Against the Machine, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit were among the most popular rapcore bands.
Australia did not produce any successful gangsta rappers or hip hop artists. However, as a nation we embraced this genre, just the like the United States. Our longing for music helped create a bonding with North America, and it was usually accepted that any popular music in the US, was also popular in Australia.
However, notable Australians which did make successes overseas include Delta Goodrem, Kylie Minogue, Guy Sebastian. Bands include Midnight Oil, Silverchair, Powderfinger and Wolfmother.
Last but not least, the media guru, some know him as Jono, others Jonathon, but we all know him as TAY! But first, we have a small competition, to test if you people have been watching tv.
Entertainment
Entertainment can be defined not only as Television shows and movies, but also literature. Entertainment was a big part of our lives, and statistics show that the average member of each household watches around 10 hours of television per week.
Australia kick started the Reality Tv genre; and it was the new hit of the decade. Australia influenced countries all over the world, and reality tv was and still is a huge success. This saw the spanning of sub-catergoriess of reality tv such as:
Shows which involve a celebrity going about their everyday life. Examples include The Osbournes and Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and The Simple Life
Another type of reality TV is "reality-competition", or so-called "reality game shows", in which participants are filmed competing to win a prize, often while living together in a confined environment. In many cases, participants are removed until only one person or team remains, who/which is then declared the winner. Usually this is done by eliminating participants one at a time, in balloon debate style, through either disapproval voting or by voting for the most popular choice to win; voting is done by either the viewing audience or by the show's own participants. A well-known example of a reality-competition show is the globally-syndicated Big Brother. Other notable examples include shows such as the Idol series, Australia’s Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars.
In this category, the competition revolves around a skill that contestants were pre-screened for. Competitors perform a variety of tasks based around that skill, are judged, and are then kept or removed by a single expert or a panel of experts. The show is invariably presented as a job search of some kind, in which the prize for the winner includes a contract to perform that kind of work. Examples include The Apprentice and, America's Next Top Model
Dating-based competition shows follow a contestant choosing one out of a group of suitors. Over the course of either a single episode or an entire season, suitors are eliminated until only the contestant and the final suitor remains. For a time, in 2001-2003, this type of reality show dominated the other genres on the major AUS networks. Showed that aired included The Bachelor, its The Bachelorette, as well as Temptation Island, Paradise Hotel and Joe Millionare
- Self-improvement/makeover
Some reality television shows cover a person or group of people improving their lives. Sometimes the same group of people are covered over an entire season but usually there is a new target for improvement in each episode. Shows include The Biggest Loser (which covers weight loss), Extreme Makeover (entire physical appearance), Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (style and grooming), Supernanny and backyard blitz
Literature in the 1990s was widely available. Famous titles include Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code and Matthew Reilly’s action series, Contest, Ice Station, Temple, Scarecrow, Hover Car Racer, Hell Island, and Seven Ancient Wonders
Now I’d like to thank all four of you of making the trip here, and giving us an insight into the 1990s and 2000s. Thank and that’s all for tonight. Till next week, GOOD NIGHT!
