Stuck in the 80s
Why does she act like she's stuck in the 80s??? She was locked up in 1998?
shareExamples?
Also, keep in mind she is from a small town in the Midwest, so culturally, in 1998, it was about 1993 there.
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The fact that she listens to cassette tapes instead of CDs and uses a Walkman... I understand she was from a small town but CDs were around in the early 90s
shareYou'd have to look to Titus for that one, since in the first or second episode in the first season Kimmie aggress to pay for Titus Columbia House Tape Subscription (or whatever it's called) since they both enjoy the tapes. Kimmie sleeps on a pool float, so I can understand why she's not buying a CD player. And honestly, if you have to choose between a Walkman and a discman, go with the Walkman because those damn discmans skipped if you even looked at them funny.
However, since Kimmie does have a smart phone and even knows how to use Siri, one would think she would have downloaded some music by now, but maybe not.
EDIT: good lord I butchered his name. Titus, not Tidus.
You are absolutely correct about that Walkman vs Discman thing.
I certainly owned CD's in the 90's but Discman players were always useless for actually walking with. That technology never got perfected. I even had a Sony brand one that supposedly had anti-skip buffering but it still skipped plenty. Them things were major battery eaters too.
At some point I abandoned trying to find a Discman that worked right. I started copying my CD's onto blank cassettes so I could play them on my Walkman.
If fact, heading all the way up until about 2010 I still occasionally busted my old dusty Walkman out for hikes and such which got me made fun of by friends but I didn't mind because it still worked. I'd pull out some tapes and younger folks looked at them like they were museum pieces.
I finally retired the Walkman for good when the smart phone era arrived. No doubt about it, this technology is finally much better.
It doesn't appear that Tituss knows about downloading music any more that Kimmy does though. Maybe Kimmy can get Jackie's daughter to teach her?
That's it? She's stuck in the '80s because of cassette tapes? I listened to cassette tapes on a Walkman until about 1999 or 2000, primarily because, as mentioned, Discmans were skippy as hell and because my Walkman was a better size for carrying around with me. And it's not like Cassette tapes weren't available into the early 2000s because they were.
Kimmy also talks a lot about Friends and Frasier. She had a crush on Lance Bass and was shocked to find out he came out while she was in the bunker, and a lot of her lingo is sourced from Wayne's World. All of those are '90s things.
Nonsense. I had a fantastic portable CD player I could go running with and it worked just fine. Granted that was closer to the early 2000's, but portable CD players weren't bad at all.
shareNonsense? Pfffffffttt!!!! Nonsense is your claim you could go running with a portable CD player!
shareI wish that I had bought the CD player you had back then....
I owned a couple of them, including the brand name one that Sony made itself, I think it was called the Sony Walkman-Discman and I remember that it supposedly had anti-skip buffering. Well, it skipped from just walking with it much less trying to jog. I ended up using it at work where I could simply set it on the desk, that was the only use I got out of it. Skippy McSkip Skip.
No you didn't. No one owned a portable cd player that didn't skip Even those blue and yellow panasonics with buffer memory were only as good as their buffer time. So unless you manage to run without impacts, it skipped.
shareYeah...and why does Star Lord play cassettes in his fancy spaceship in Guardians of the Galaxy? Surely alien engineers could have mastered digital music.
share"The fact that she listens to cassette tapes instead of CDs and uses a Walkman... I understand she was from a small town but CDs were around in the early 90s"
Umm... CDs existed in the 80s. Cassettes still had a huge part of the market until the late 90s, even early 2000s. Most cars didn't even come with CD players until the mid 2000s. You're a bit off on your history.
Yeah, that scene w/t Walkman is the same scene, where she was rocking the 8o's Jane Fonda/ Richard Simmons work out gear (see other comment below). I was curious so I went back and found the scene/reference. => S1 ep8, "Kimmie is Bad at Math" 1st scene after open, she's running thru Central Pk headed for the "Friends Fountain".
Some of the 80's trends did roll over into early- mid 90's (fannypacks and scruchies). I guess some communities may have been slower to receive the trend exit memos. But 5 years seems like a lot! Somebody in town had MTV didn't they? Tiger Beat Magazine?
Yeah, that scene w/t Walkman is the same scene, where she was rocking the 8o's Jane Fonda/ Richard Simmons work out gear (see other comment below). I was curious so I went back and found the scene/reference. => S1 ep8, "Kimmie is Bad at Math" 1st scene after open, she's running thru Central Pk headed for the "Friends Fountain".
Some of the 80's trends did roll over into early- mid 90's (fannypacks and scruchies). It's plausible that some communities may have been slower to receive the trend exit memos. But 5 years seems like a lot! Somebody in town had MTV didn't they? Tiger Beat Magazine?
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I feel like all of the people who post this kind of stuff must've been born in 1996 or something.
Yes, there were CDs in the 90s (and the 80s), but they were expensive as hell in comparison to cassettes. I was born in 1986 (which I would assume is around the same time Kimmy was supposed to be born) and I didn't own a CD player or CDs until I was 14 or 15 because I'm poor and from the Midwest (just like Kimmy.)
Same thing with the internet. My family had a computer and the internet in maybe 97-98, but we were literally the ONLY people I knew in our town that had internet. A lot of my friends didn't even understand the concept.
Just because these things were around in the 90s, doesn't mean a 14-year-old poor, neglected girl from the Midwest is going to have them.
Great point about the price of CDs back then. I worked for a record store from roughly '89 to '91 and we priced most CDs between $14.99 and $16.99.
Now, fast forward to 2016, and the record stores that still remain (they're not all gone) have brand new CDs, new releases, for $8.99 to $9.99.
Even with 25+ years worth of inflation you can buy a CD for less in raw unadjusted dollars than you could in 1990. That slays me.
I grew up in the 90s, my earliest memory is probably 92 or 93... I used cassette tapes well after the year 2000.
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There were Dvd's in 1998 too but we all still had VCR's as DVD's were expensive.. You kids today don't remember when a movie cost 50 dollars on VHS and 100 on DVD when it was first released. Same with tapes and CD's.. Record stores when they still existed lol, sold tapes and CD"s because most people still had tape decks in their car, used tape walkman, and just had tape players.. Kimmy is the personification of being a pre-teen to 17 from 95-2000, (i was13 in 95), down to the Jansport back with her name on it.
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Even when I bought CDs I used cassettes for all my mixes until CD burners came out around 2000. That's when cassettes finally started becoming obsolete for me.
Please stop.
? I'm afraid you're a bit lost. She's stuck in the 90s. If you have evidence otherwise, feel free to drop it right here next to your trapperkeeper.
shareAs for dowloading music, I'm surprised that no one's mentioned how utterly awful MP3 sound quality is compared to CDs (don't know about cassettes). A person like Kimmy, who didn't grow up with MP3 would find the sound atrocious. Then there're all the compatibility issues with Apple that just make your head hurt.
There's also the physicality and nostalgia factor to it - some people like having a physical object of their music, film or TV show. This is partly why vinyl records are still a thing.
What about that big as- fanny pack (S1)? Was that 90's or 80's? But if IRC homegirl also rocked Richard Simmons fluorescent work out gear, w/legwarmers and a Flashdance sweat shirt. Totally 80's. Gag me w/a spoon, that gear was so rad.
OP, I remember thinking more than once that there were other 80's references as well. Binging S1. If I see or recall other examples will update.
She may have been locked up in 1998, but she makes a pop culture error in S01E01 that predates New Year's 1997.
When the women are freed and are interviewed on Today (1952), and are being interviewed by Matt Lauer, Kimmy calls him "Bryant." This is a reference to Bryant Gumbel, who left the show on January 3, 1997. This would make her 1998 capture date an apparent anachronism.