We LOVE remembering the 90s — but was it really as carefree as nostalgia would have us believe?
This week broadcaster and podcaster Rebecca Horan joins Emma and Carol to look beyond the rose-tinted glasses.
We talk All Saints, Alanis Morissette, Britpop, grunge, Beverly Hills 90210, Sweet Valley High and the fashion we thought was everything.
But we also talk about what was happening underneath it all — impossible beauty standards, heroin chic, drinking too young, experiences we didn't always have the language for, and growing up at a time when anxiety and mental health simply weren't talked about.
As Rebecca puts it at the end of our conversation:
“There was so much murkiness under what we were actually going through… But we have grit.”
We had an absolute BALL in the 90s. But it wasn't perfect.
So… did the 90s lie to us?
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