Summer before sixth grade (1994)
Warren G & Nate Dogg – Regulate
I remember drinking a lot of Diet Sprites while sitting at my desk listening to this song.
Amy Grant & Vince Gill -House of Love
I would never listen to this song in 2015, but it always played on mom’s easy listening (101.3 2WD) station on the way to my math tutoring. I used to think that song was about a make out house, like the one that Jordan Catalano took Angela Chase to that one time. Damn did JCPenney play this song a lot.
For a brief time that summer, I would use an old tape recorder I bought at the thrift store to record songs off of the TV. This was one of them because VH1 would show this video 10 times a day.
Boys II Men – I’ll Make Love to You
The more and more this song played on the radio in the car with your mom that Summer, the more and more uncomfortable it got.
I completely forgot about the home security installation plot in the music video.
(Find your song from the Summer of 1994)
Summer before seventh grade (1995)
From the “Val Kilmer Batman”, I remember this being Rick Dees’ #1 song for 1995. It’s 2015, and I still don’t know what this song is about. It was on Seal’s second 1994 album, so it wasn’t written specifically for Batman Forever. I asked my Facebook friends once if they knew the meaning, but of course they ignored me.
Michael Jackson – You are Not Alone
This screenshot pretty much says it all.
Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson – Scream
I watched this video for the first time in about 16, 17 years for this entry. I still remembered every single detail. Someone needs to do a cosplay of Michael and Janet in this video. Such iconic 1995 outfits.
Michael Jackson – Childhood
In the Summer of 1995, I had to go to this Summer School for kids who failed portions of the Literacy Passport Test, which was a standardized test that middler schoolers had to take in Hampton. There was this boy in my class who sang the “Have you sen my child’whood?” part exactly like Michael. I also remember him and this girl from my cheerleading squad, Sherrie getting in a fight for no apparent reason. ‘Just to have a few days off from Summer School.
It’s like HIStory came and went that Summer.
1) Sharon stone Michelle Pfeiffer walking up to Coolio, turns the chair around, and she says, “YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT?!” So bad ass.
2) I remember in one of those I Love the 90s shows, Hal Sparks said that L.V. looked like “those drawings of the wind”:
3. My “technology” (fancy word for “shop”) teacher Mr. Barnes was playing that song as we were coming into his classroom on the first day of school. Were we supposed to pretend we were in the movie?
I remember this song being in commercials for The Babysitters Club movie that Summer, and thinking about how redic it was that there was a movie about Babysitters Club, because I remember the series becoming less popular around that time. I guess theatergoers thought the same thing, because the movie only made $9 million in the box office that Summer.
(Find your song from the Summer of 1995)
Summer Before eighth grade (1996)
I wanted to be the blue-haired girl in the video so bad.
Donna Lewis – I Love You, Always Forever
Uggh, her playing with the boots in the music video. So stupid! She looks like a little girl playing with her daddy’s boots!
I always blasted this song on my tape walkman at night that Summer.
I didn’t know that there were two videos for this song. The only one I ever saw was the “TV” one, this “closet” one is new to me.
Primitive Radio Gods – Standing outside a broken phonebooth with money in my hand
For some reason, this video isn’t on YouTube, I had to find it on another site, Video Detective. You can’t see it in the video I posted because the quality is so bad, but the video had its own captions. It also had the longest song title back then.
I loved this video that Summer. I loved videos that had twinges of the 1960s in it, like the old TVs the ‘Surfers sang around, and the chick with the raincoat at the end of the video. The dancers in purple are my favorite, though.
This is another video from the same era, that used images from the past, much like the “Pepper” video. vh1 and mtv didn’t play this video too much.
I like to imagine this is me at my MacBook writing out these entries for ‘yall. I like to imagine I’m at a lil’ typewriter. Type type tap tap.
Find your song rom the summer of 1996.
Bonus: Last summer before high school (1997)
I would record songs of the radio obsessively back then, and I recorded this montage my radio station z104 did of people calling in requesting “that Barbie song”. Just call after call of girls going. “can can can you play that ‘Barbie song’?”
I don’t care what anybody says, I still love this video. The band member that plays Ken, René, is on point.
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