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A review by audhdylan
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade
Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
It's hard to tell if this book wants to be a memoir or political analysis or a nostalgic lens on Y2K. I'm a study of blobjects and Y2K media. Many of the references in this book are familiar to me. As such, I didn't have high expectations that I'd learn a whole lot.
But I hoped to read a book like this from the perspective of someone who didn't graduate college with no debt, who didn't, as a sixth grader, receive a Christmas gift of $100,000 in Nokia stock. The opener rattles off all these '00s products I only experienced in commercials and advertisements. So to hear from someone who seemingly got whatever they begged for as a child, it's hard to care about later dissection of the economic aspects of this time.
The first chapter also discusses Diddy at length, which has aged poorly in just a few months, but even before publication wasn't brand new information. The references to Gwen Stefani wearing bindis and the trendy fascination with Asian culture didn't acknowledge appropriation at all. Overall this just felt like a very privileged repackaging of Y2K-core that didn't offer anything but unrelatable personal experiences that happened to coincide with the time period in question.
But I hoped to read a book like this from the perspective of someone who didn't graduate college with no debt, who didn't, as a sixth grader, receive a Christmas gift of $100,000 in Nokia stock. The opener rattles off all these '00s products I only experienced in commercials and advertisements. So to hear from someone who seemingly got whatever they begged for as a child, it's hard to care about later dissection of the economic aspects of this time.
The first chapter also discusses Diddy at length, which has aged poorly in just a few months, but even before publication wasn't brand new information. The references to Gwen Stefani wearing bindis and the trendy fascination with Asian culture didn't acknowledge appropriation at all. Overall this just felt like a very privileged repackaging of Y2K-core that didn't offer anything but unrelatable personal experiences that happened to coincide with the time period in question.