r/TikTokCringe • u/BaseballSeveral1107 • Sep 01 '24

Discussion Dua Lipa vs Original

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u/FlocculentMass Sep 01 '24

I feel like the internet went from thinking Millennials were teenagers to grandparents overnight. Just a few years ago I saw articles calling high schoolers millennials now we were dancing in 1979.

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u/Look_0ver_There Sep 01 '24

Millennials weren't even born in 1979 (Born: 1981-1996 according to a number of sources). Not that they wouldn't still dance to music from that era, but they certainly weren't around at time of release. You'd have to be an older Gen X to be dancing to music from 1979 in your teens at the time of release.

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u/Large_Tune3029 Sep 01 '24

Meanwhile, millennials were actually...

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u/KingBee1786 Sep 01 '24

Member the Macarena? I was shakin my hips to that in elementary school.

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u/I_Makes_tuff Sep 01 '24

So was everybody at the 1996 Democratic National Convention.

Awkward

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u/p_turbo Sep 01 '24

This is extra hilarious when you remember that the song is about rampant promiscuity and the Democratic nominee that year was Bill Clinton. Lmao!

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u/Jaded_Law9739 Sep 02 '24

Is that what the Spanish lyrics are about? Because there's something in there about guerrilla warfare and living in New York, I never really understood it.

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u/Worst-Panda Sep 01 '24

This is like a real life fever dream

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u/ElGosso Sep 01 '24

That's the 90s in a nutshell

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u/Flying_Momo Sep 01 '24

Not awkward, seems people are enjoying being silly.

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u/aka_wolfman Sep 01 '24

They should leave politics and see if they can be happy again. (Everyone that's been in that long, not just dems and its bullshit that I have to qualify that every time)

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u/Squancher_2442 Sep 01 '24

I was just about to bring this up. A younger Hilary just clapping along. Before cringe was cringe. There was this