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[..YouTube..] I think I’d have to say 80’s. I was born in 1990, and I’m still kinda stuck in the 90’s, but I’m also stuck in the 80’s. the raybans, the bright neon colors, the crazy wardrobe & music & movies, it was just so awesome. I totally love it. ugh, just a few years off. lol.though the 60’s with woodstock also seems amazing.

[..YouTube..] i shud of ben born n the 7os/80s..i luv mvies like 16candles,the Breakfast Club frm da 80s…i wud want to liv n da 70s bcuz afros and natural hairstyles were really n even tho im currently natural and bkuz of the hippies,i wud of ben a wild child..lol

[..YouTube..] Same with me… Late 60s just to be able to see Jimi Hendrix live. His lyrics on songs like “if 6 were 9″ or “I don’t live today” still move me 40 years after his death…that era was nothing like the recycled music we have today…

[..YouTube..] LOL! Me and my mom were just talkin about this topic! I should of been apart of the late 70’s and 80’s….alll my fav songs are from those eras…

[..YouTube..] i love the 80’s.. i was born in december of 89.. but i love the fashion and music in the 80’s..

[..YouTube..] lol back in the old school hip hop age like when TLC was out n Aaliyah the big huge jeans , bamboo earrings lol good times ! like 90s ish !

[..YouTube..] you guys really know your time periods. This is fun! And yea I do kinda wish I was in the TLC/ Aaliyah era to

[..YouTube..] I think the 90’s were perfect. I would like to have tried them as a teen though, lol. The late 50’s -60’s were great of course too. Ideally I’d have a sister or close friend in a doowop band.Then again I’d kinda want to be around for the discovery of hip hop.

[..YouTube..] I definitely wish I could have been born in 75 grew up in the 80’s! The clothes were sooo Cool! That whole era just had a Michael Jackson vibe to it.. (well, that’s my perspective of the vibe lol, I’m not sure how it felt) Looks fun though!

I wish I was born earlier in the 80s like 82-83 so i could’ve fully enjoyed the 90s more. That era just fits me so well than the current time does.

i most definately was born in the wrong era!! i was born in 1990, which is the era that i wish i was a teen in rather than a kid. i LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about the late 80’s early 90’s, well, up to about 96. the clothing (acid washed, high waisted jeans, the neon colors, the jordans 1-8, the sun glasses, almost all sneakers were high tops) i did enjoy t.v ALOT back then(the fresh prince of bel-air, the cosby show, martin, living single) the movies were fucking GREAT! (do the right thing, white men cant jump, Juice) the music(hip hop) was still pure and raw (N.W.A,wu tang, 2pac, slick rick, big daddy kane, salt-n -pepa, mc lyte. TLC, Aaliyah.etc.) Micheal Jackson and Janet. The dances were ILL!! everyone was VERY CREATIVE and put soul into everything they did, unlike now( have u watched t.v or listened to the radio lately?JUNK!) although i lived it, i feel like i didnt get the full experience because i was i kid. I WANNA GO BACK!!!

oh!! i forgot, and the bulls were the shit!! lol. Michael Jordan. (thats all i gotta say, rite?lol)

man I would’ve been outtasight in the 70s…most likely would have owned a club. It’s crazy thinking about it.

But then again growing up WITH Hip Hop in the 80’s would be dope too…I’d be in NYC livin’ hardcore bboy writer style man. Be a part of the history that we look back on for guidance and inspiration today.

Now if I wanted to get wild on this question and jump into a time machine?? I round up the meanest cats around, hop in that HG Wells hooptie and TIME HATE ON SLAVE MASTERS!!!!!!!!!!

ONE.

If I could live in an era,m definitely 80s.

Everything was so fresh, and positive, music wise. Sexuality still had some censorship…woman were viewed stronger.

I’d still have the Bike jackets and skinny jeans, I’d proably want to be a dj in Lower Eastside Manhattan. I’d have crazy nike gear, and tons of leather.

Polaroid photo shoots. Listening to Prince, and Klymaxx, and debarge… Music was so good.

I’d probably be the real Denise Huxtable.

Viva La Brat pack. Eric B. for Pres.

[..YouTube..] I probably should have been born in the 60’s late seventy’s because of the movements and progression that was taking place….interesting video ladies and funny as always:)

I’m tempted to say the 20s because I have the right hair/body to be a crazy flapper, but I’m going to have to agree with you guys on the sixties. I’m a huge hippy (the secret’s out!), what with the environmentalism, feminism, folk music, love of weed, etc. I’d grow my hair super long again and go see Joni Mitchell at Woodstock.

You know what though? I’m actually really glad I’m living through this era right now. The 90s were totally lame because all people cared about were celebrities and way fewer people were interested/active in world issues, but 9/11 really changed all that. There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on these days, and the backdrop of a questionable war going on this past decade has given our culture kind of a return to the 60s in a way too (anti-war/political music, student groups working for peace and to protect the environment, etc.).

Plus: the Internet. I realize that there’s harm that comes with it, but I truly don’t believe the harms outdo the good of having all this free-flowing information and allowing ingenuity to evolve so quickly. The Internet is also an inherently anarchist and worldwide system, and I think those conditions really help connect people.

Also: yes, music now is shit compared to then, but I think that will change once the music labels inevitably become obsolete and a new system of music production and distribution takes over. Copy right reform acts that are being decided in Canada RIGHT NOW play a major role in that. See, isn’t the present exciting too?

[..YouTube..] I would have to say… I like where I am, because I love the music of this era and also of the 90’s, and I love Beyonce. So I’m happy that I grew up listening to her, and having my mom to expose me to all the R&B music of the 90’s.

Hahaha THE 70′S when music was music!!!! Al Green, The JB’S, Curtis Mayfield , The O’jays ” I love music”
now music is only bullshit!

I aways wanted to be a DISCO QUENN with the shinning dresses and the hair lol party all night !

bright colours, peace & love…. ooohhh the good old time

i don’t belong to this era for real !!!
I want to GO BACK!! I’ll will build a time machine!!

pc & luv

[..YouTube..] Okay I think I would have to say the 1930’s. I love the fashion of the late 20’s & 30’s. Women were feminine and men actually dressed. I think the sexiest thing is a man in a suit, and I always have. Especially Zoot Suits with the hats. Its so funny when I say that people my age (early 20’s) are like “what…wth is that?”. And the arts jazz, Harlem Renaissance, movies, architecture etc. I was definitely feel like I’m and old soul. It was a much simpler time that I think shouldn’t be forgotten.

i would def. say the 30’s or 40’s only because i love the pictures i’ve seen; the black&white photos then are simply beautiful; and the womens make-up looks flawless; and i love Dorthy Dandridge; Marilyn Monroe&Lucille Ball; 60’s/70’s because of the music it’s just so amazing; true everything was just so original; and i think it world have been dope to meet/ hear Dr.King Speak; oh and the 20’s the whole Harlem Renaisce Movement; then i was born in ‘91 and i also love the 90’s t.v atleast childrens t.v like “Doug; Rugrats; Cousin Skeeter; Gullah Gullah Island; All That; Braceface etc.” now i think my little sister missed out on the good t.v shows idk; its just my opinion

just to point out to Andrea, song writers have been around for a minute, Ashford and Simpson is a great example of artists who made a lucrative living penning tracks for other artists. Barry Gordy was notorious for having in house writers for his Motown artists. Diane Ross ain’t wrote a lick in her life. Anywhoo. just saying..

I would have like to been born a couple of years earlier. Like 75 or 77. I was born in 81, which I’m pretty content with, I think my generation got the best of pretty much everything. Music, Technology, Civil and Social development, Entertainment, etc. but if I were just born five years earlier I could have been 18 when Biggie Smalls just bust! lol It sounds weird but I always wish I could have experienced the feeling of being in the club when Juicy broke. Like can you image?!!! or in the club when Snoop’s G-thang hit. Or Fugee-La? OR BETTER experienced these artists in concert!!! (when they were fresh, cause you can still see grampa snoop if you so choose) oh weee! alas I was a lowly middle schooler/going into high school. I still enjoyed a lot, but I could have had more. And I’m just speaking from a music perspective. I could never imagine living in the 60s though. don’t think I would have been so crazy. lol

ok well i hate the fact that i was born in 1991. I feel so trapped its disgusting to me. But i love this question.

If I got to choose my era I would be born in the mid 70’s so i could enjoy the 80’s and 90’s fully.
This is because of my fave movie Love and Basketball. Did u guys c that movie?(i would love u that much more if it was a Guess That Movie) but anyway I love how they danced during the winter formal where Q/Omar Epps was with Gabrelle Union’s character but staring at and admiring Sanaa Lathan’s character the whole time cuz she was baddddd (good bad not bad bad). The dancing was just funky fresh and soo cool. And plus 80’s hip hop was the bizness. I still jam to “It takes two” and just the wholllllle soundtrack. I belong in the 80’s and all my friends know it.
My basketball team nickname was “Ol’ skool” cuz i would do crazy harlem grobetrotters type stuff and do finger rolls…(the real kind) and do Dr. J-esque trick shots on the court during the game cuz i just thought it was sooooo cool and i practiced them for hourrrrsssss. and Michael Jordan……smh….He’s my imaginary dad. that’s all i have to say about him. thegr8est.

Also if i was born in the mid 70’s I would be around 20-ish for 90’s R&B….and Im a firm believer that the 90’s was the apex of R&B and it probably will never be as good. I’m not even gonna drop names just take a moment to think about some of the Wild Girls Fah From the Archives…so 90’s. So hot.

and @Andrea I definitely use the word Jive Turkey in context sometimes lol…during high school basketball the referee was on some dumb ish so I called him a Jive Turkey lol…as a joke but still.

And also the activist in me wants to be a part of the Civil Rights Movement. Just to b marching with Dr. King and all them. I rly wish i could have fought for the cause of equal rights for blacks in the south during the 50’s and 60’s. I would have been so passionate about erasing the racism.

Meh. idk i wish i was just NOT born in the 90’s. any other era works for me.

love tha hair Shannon. 2 kudos.

@ Kali, I’m not saying every artist back then was a singer/songwriter but you had to have TALENT! Unlike artist today who don’t know how to do any of it! Diana Ross might not be able to write but she can perform! Barry Gordy might have had in house writers but he has an undeniable voice. There are countless artist today who can’t sing, or write songs or perform them properly! The quality of artist has declined greatly over the last few decades! Which is why I prefer that era

That VJ marlon looks like the late soul singer Sam Cook he was huge in the early 60s. I wiss I lived in the 70s but I would be even more happier if the Afro came back in style.

[..YouTube..] I always wished i could experience “The Roaring Twenties” (1920’s) that must have been an awesome time because of the theater, the cars, the music, the new dances, fashion…all that….besides all the racism, sexism, and prejudice.

@ Jazzi haha!! i would definately be in your crew!!

I’d like to go back and experience 1920’s Harlem. The jazz scene exploded, blacks attained a new sense of intellectual and spiritual freedom. It was the era of some of my favourite artists, poets, and activists (Meeting Richard Wright, Langston Hughes or W.E.B. DuBois would be crazy!!!). Only thing that has me rethinking my choice is the strong presence of the KKK. I might not last long in such an environment. I’m definitely an ”uppity” negro. Lol

[..YouTube..] Ok, when this topic is brought up I usually say the 70’s. But then I go on to say I wish I had a time machine so that I would know all I know now but be back in like the 1800’s. LOL. I say that because that was when woman were slaves to their husbands, I would be like “oh hell no Joseph, you are gonna make my dinner….bitch” haha. Seriously though I would love to set men straight….way back when woman had no say. Sad that some women still allow their men to crack that whip on them.

These comments are so funny to me. I did grow up in the 70s and I had a blast. Remember for all of you wishing you were back there, no internet, no cable tv, no personal computers, no email, no xbox, and gasp…no cell phones. Yes there was a time when you had to use a land line to make a call. Or when you were out a pay phone. You may have to Google pay phone.

Music was way cool though. There were real instruments like horns. Check out Earth, Wind and Fire, Ohio Players, etc. Yea I had them all booming from my 8 track player under the seat of my 66 Chevy Nova.

Though there was no cable many classic TV shows like All in the Family, Good Times ruled the air ways. No offense to Jordan but Dr. J with the fro was da bomb.

Without the technology that we love today, the 70s still is the decade of my life I love the best. I had fun interacting with real people, face-to-face. There is nothing like it. Yes..those were good times.

Hey Andrea we must be kindred spirits because in the past month “jive turkey” has become a regular word in my lexicon…a couple weeks ago I said this sentence to my cousin..”man you’re probably too young to know what a jive turkey is but i assure you that’s what you are right now”

But I digress

I’m an 80’s baby but have always been fascinated with the late 60’s/and 70’s. as early as grade 8 I found myself extremely interested in the black power movement of that era…huey newton, bobby seale, eldridge cleaver and the panthers, the snccc etc. I’ve always been a fan and collector of the blaxploitation flicks of that time and I love the natural beauty and the swag the women had during that period, the new sense of pride and empowerment. embracing the fact that black is beautiful..rocking the naturals, the increasing knowledge of self, everybody building and exhanging ideas, teaching and learning from one another, the music, (curtis mayfield, the ojays, sly and the family stone, the birth of hip hop in the late 70’s etc.) the movies (godfather, spook who sat by the door, the mack etc.) the free love and not worrying about catching anything that a lil penicillin couldn’t fix, lol…

I have thought about this. I would totally TOTALLY want to be apart of 1920s Harlem. The literary works that were created, the music, the artwork, all those brilliant minds that were out and about during that time….. its just that the Depression was imminent. So I think I’d want to be be in the 1920s and be rich.

As much as I love froing out my hair- And I do every chance I get regardless of how people react. I have to say that I couldn’t picture myself in any other era, I was born here. I enjoy the meaningless music, the fastfood franchises taking over and making us morbally obese, having Obama for a president, having the American Dream be this generations number one goal. It all sounds horrible, but it’s all I know, all I can picture myself in.

I couldnt agree with you too more. Theres no other era that could even attempt to compare to the 60s and 70s. Everything about it from the music movies movements. I mean, we’re talkin Martin Luther King and Marvin Gaye. Janis Joplin and JFK. It was a revolutionary time that changed the world. My dad, as a former hippie, thinks my past life was in that time. lol. It’s crasy to imagine that there was even a time where strangers could love each other. The world we live in today is shit, no sense of community and everyday we regress in our understanding of each other. In those days there were people losing their lives for freedoms and rights we take fir granted and don’t even utilize. It’s kind of embarassing the way we treat each other, just knowing there was a point in time when, regardless of the wars and social and gender separations, everyone found a common ground and bonded over it: LOVE. duh. It would be amazing to experience the lessons learned and the love that was shared the way it was in the 60s and 70s.

60s or 70s. The best!

70’s hands down

yess!! the 60’s !! Fight the POWER!!! Free loveee. (puts up peace sign)

ugh, I love it. that’s definitely where I belong.

though as far as the 70’s go i find it funny you guys have a post about rihanna being awesome after all thsi talk about music being real..but when in rome I suppose. I know you guys have amazing taste otherwise

[..YouTube..] i wish i coulda been a teen in the 80s. i loves 80s fashion with the neon colors and big jewelry and all lol.

[..YouTube..] Great video !! I feel I was born in the wrong era too. I wish I was there during the late 60’s & the 70’s.

[..YouTube..] Same here , Music was better .. Girls wern’t as degrading to themselves … there’s way more history too ! I wont have anything to tell my grand children when I’m old.. lol

[..YouTube..] Omg I def feel you girls! i wish i could live, breath, smell this era… I love the music, the love being shared.. I just love it!

[..YouTube..] I wouldn’t wanna be born in a different era but I wanna go back in time to the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s to experience those times and that music. I decided not to be born in any other era because had I been, I may have a really ignorant view on Hip-Hop. I may not have understood or tried to understand the culture had I been someone my mommy’s age…lol. & that would suck cause I luv Hip-Hop.