I was in elementary school for most of both the Y2K and McBling eras. Those aesthetics were a HUGE staple for the majority of my childhood, and I will forever cherish that.
I love this! I was in elementary school for most of this too, but I love that these styles are coming back, sometimes I feel like the Cool Girl of my dreams LOL
I witnessed my older sister during full Y2K mode, including wearing shiny pants to prom. What I remember that is more Y2K: sparkly or shiny tights wore with everything, one sleeved tops, off the shoulder tops, short haircuts with flipped out ends, Doc Martens/tall and big shoes of many varieties, that cherub art print that was one EVERYTHING (ngl, iconic.)
I love the McBling era. Everyone confuses the two a lot. I was alive for both eras but I was more conscious during the McBling era and tbh now that I’m older with adult money I can dress like the girls on tv and magazines that I used to see lol 😂😂
I'm SO grateful you have so many real life examples, not just celebrity pictures! The authenticity is so different than just seeing celebrities wearing trends or whatever
Labels were just as important in the late 90s as the early 2000s for me! Remember Airwalk, Guess, Ikeda, Roxy, Calvin Klein, Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Joe Boxer, Starter, Ralph Lauren and Polo
Jenna, if you read this by chance please consider writing books on this! You are the ultimate cool girl and you explain everything in exact detail. Seriously, if a consultant or fashion director was needed for movies or television on y2k and 2000's fashion you are the expert!!!!
I love the Y2K and McBling era, even the early 2010s I just love the style for some reason even though it's hated by most people lol. I was born in 2004 so I didn't get to experience it in full, but man it was a huge part of my childhood. Wish I can go back to those times but as a teen instead of a kid.
McBling also overlapped with Emo/Scene, which explains why it was kind of a more flashy, bright, gaudy version of Goth. It makes sense why, when I think about it.
Scene was way tackier than emo. The early 2000s emo was more tame than mid or peak mid 2000s emo, but the style was still not as crazy as scene style. I think the embodiment of scene style was emo rap with electronic (electrocore? or everything -core) influence or whatever by music groups like Brokencyde, lol.
@@NormieNeko I agree with you, but I lumped them together because, at least where I grew up, the styles/groups did mingle together and go one way or the other depending on their mood. The emo kids still liked pops of bright color, etc
@@arikalamari19 Scene and emo different than goth? Yes, I'm aware. But during the time I grew up, there weren't really any goth people anymore and were replaced by the next-gen (ie scene/emo). And those two groups had very heavy overlap where I'm from, so I lumped them together.
As an Alternative adult, having had been an alternative teen during that time yes, Mcbling was a HUGE part of scene during the rise of what I call “the skinny jeans era” scene kids or kids attempting the style look waaaaay different from ugg wearing, blingy, betsy johnson scene kids of 2007-2008
I was too young to remember this but I just wanna say that I think all your videos are interesting and that you do a great job explaining these things. Also your youtube shorts are pretty funny. :]
In high school for me at least was the playboy bunny and belly rings and color and low rise with glitter and blonde hair and tan. We all looked trash lol I remember a very specific outfit, playboy diamond belly ring, a top that was literally a corset, low rise now back pocket jeans, hot pink flip flops, long blonde hair with side bang and super tan, dark eye liner. Good times.
This is an exceptionally accurate and detailed analysis of the McBling phenomenon. Spot on! It's like I'm reliving high school and my twenties. You've nailed the buildup and exit trends and the cultural influences fueling all this.
Thank you! I’m so glad someone else saw this mistaken association with Y2K! I would be interested in your thoughts on overlooked 90s color pallets/trends too. 90s was not all grunge! I definitely remember seeing a lot of that (for lack of a better term) “Coffee House” vibe? Like, rich purples, burgundy’s, and mustard yellow. Kinda hippie causal?
Its true that there was big difference. Thanks for video! I'm in love with early 00! Glad it's acceptable for now again haha😂 As a teen I was edgy, and my young self would have more questions than answers seeing me enjoy these styles lol
Lovely video, super informative! Your explanation reminds me of the wording in a textbook I read for a Consumer Cultures course I took as an honors elective. It was definitely a challenge to analyze but so interesting (sadly we didn't cover American fashion beyond luxury brand loyalty)! I'd attend all your lectures with utmost attention haha
Thank God I was still in little girl frocks and pinafore at that point. If I was a teenager then, I wouldn’t be able to look back at my teenage photos and not cringe. 😂
This is so cool! Do you have a video on the fashion that took place during the 2007-2011 period? I'm aware that there was still eccentric & colorful clothes during this time, espeically with things like JUICY COUTURE, but I just remember very simplistic clothes with darker or grungier color patterns, some call it "y2k grunge" and it's honestly a nice fashion pallete lol.
I remember the day in high school when I realized low rise flares were on their way out in like 2004, but I still didn’t buy my first pair of low rise skinny jeans until 2006.
There is also 2K1 aesthetics, which is like the bridge between Y2K & McBling. Think American flag t-shirts, sweaty looks (Brintey Slave 4 u video) American Pie type movies etc.
I dont like the term "mc bling" but I definitely remember all this stuff. I was also definitely an indie sleeze though and I think the term is v appropriate
This still feels so recent to me…but then I remember it’s as long ago as the 70s were when I was a teenager in the 90s, and my parents talked about the 70s & I thought it was as old fashioned as the Victorian era😭😭😭
I swear... the blonde orange/tanned barbie dressed in hot pink was everything.. i mean everything im 2004 Lip glosses... in hot pink, coral and bright red... omg
I remember the McBling era. I wore a lot of plaid knee shorts and wore a lot of shirts that had glitter writing on it and sweatpants with words on the butt.
I still remember when a friend got me one of those lingerie shirts for a gift and I opened it at an elementary school I volunteered at. My teacher freaked and said “girl you can’t open lingerie in here!” And we just rolled our eyes and said “it’s a shirt” . 😂😂
Lmmfao I remember having a bunch of rhinestones on my flip phone. It was a repressed memory until I saw this video. I have no idea what the heck I was thinking.
My sister was in the mcbling time of her life when she went to her sr prom in 2007 in a very similar hot pink, sweetheart neckline, poofy bottom dress that had more and more Bavarian crystals as it went down and high top chucks with hot pink laces. Lol
I had a similar belt and I loved it SO much. It was silver glitter on one side and reversed to black glitter on the other. I would wear it out with my low rise jeans and a tube top and felt the height of fashion 😂
I feel like 2018/2019 we saw an 90's comeback, the mini handbag, oversized/cargo jeans, long skirts. Then 2020 - 2022 it was kind of the Y2K era, and now we are slowly moving into the Mcbling era. I feel like handbags and sunglasses are getting bigger, while skirts and dresses are getting shorter. My prediction is that next will be kind of 2010/2013 fashion revival, with statement neckless (they are popping in stores now), business casual style etc.
I would have thought that 2007-2010 style would come back first? That would make sense as there are parallels between that era and now, with the 2007 financial crisis sending shockwaves throughout society, and now with the post pandemic cost of living crisis.
@@ThePsychicFish It makes total sense! Im not sure what was popping in 2007/2009, because I was only 7-9 at the time. However, I see a lot of stores selling statements necklaces, oversized bags/ sunglasses and skinny jeans. I associate that with 2011-2014 fashion
@@gabrielcarvalho6085 hm thats a good question, I was 10-13 at that time, but my biggest concern back then was playing need for speed and burnout on my PS3 lol. In hindsight, I do remember pop music shifting to a more club/party centric direction, which I would say was kinda proto-EDM? I would also say it was a more pure time, the last period before the divide between the online world and the real world was blurred. You had to go on a computer to access social media. Back then smartphones weren't ubiquitous, and everyone didn't have a hd camera in their pocket to whip out at a moments notice. I remember blackberry phones were all the rage briefly, just before iPhones came and dominated. Back then everyone wasnt looking down into their phones as much (although there were definitely phoneaholics back then lol) It was also the era of the UA-cam OGs, Ray William Johnson was king back then with his =3 show. You had Nigahiga, Shane Dawson, KassemG, Jenna Marbles, TimothyDeLaGhetto, Swoozie, Smosh, Mychonny, Glozell, Scmoyoho, Wong Fu, Jon Lajoie etc... These were all just regular people who made random stuff, very DIY. I find it funny how the younger people today don't pay respects or even know about the UA-cam OGs. I also remember how these early UA-camrs would sometimes say crazy out of pocket shit because being "cancelled" didn't exist then. Don't get me started on MySpace n shit too lmao, I was abit too young for MySpace I didn't care about it, but my big sister was crazy about that. MySpace was a LOT more personalised and customisable than modern social media, and was oddly way better at the "social" part of social media than what we have today! My big sister was also crazy about Kpop, she showed me the music video for Eat You Up by Boa in 2009, then in subsequent years you had the 2nd generation Kpop stars like 2ne1, BIGBANG, Girls Generation, Fx, etc... each of which had their hordes of fanatical stans. Funnily I don't see the newer Kpop stans acknowledging these older Kpop stars much... Even though they actually made some pretty cool music, I liked 2ne1 the most Hm what else... Late 2000s was the last hurrah for rock music in the mainstream... Carried by emo, pop punk and indie bands, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, The Hives, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, The Killers, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Muse. Since this period rock music has largely faded from the mainstream charts and doesn't hold much currency in pop culture. I predict that it's high time for rock music to make it's comeback, especially because of the recent oversaturation of trap hiphop, which I feel has lead to the creative stagnation of the genre and a sense of apathy and exasperation in the audience. One last thing I would say about late 2000s music... Is that while there was a lot of generic, nauseating club music... There were a lot of BANGER pop hits!!! I'm talking Timbaland - (any song he touched), Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up/The Sweet Escape, Amy Winehouse - Valerie/Back to Black/Rehab Adele - Chasing Pavements/Rumour Has It, MIKA - Big Girls, Klaxons - (anything they made), Kanye - Stronger/Heartless Every Rihanna hit Fergie - Clumsy/Glamourous Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway Sugababes - About You Now Girls Aloud - Call The Shots Britney Spears - Gimme more Robyn - With Every Heartbeat The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr. A Estelle - American Boy P!nk - So What Kid Cudi - Day n Nite MGMT - Kids Beyonce - Halo Kasabian - Fire/Club Foot Jay Z - Run This Town Florence + The Machine - You've Got The Love/ Dog Days are Over Kate Nash - Do-Wah-Do/Foundations Lily Allen - The Fear Chester French - She Loves Everybody And let me say... At work they play the mainstream hits of the moment on the Radio all the time.. and it has NOTHING on the songs which were popping in the late 2000s!!
Yeah seriously lol I hate that it's made a comeback, from people who didn't even live through it all and fully understand what it was like back then lol
@@corninyourpoop 👌 and the fashion was a joke too, i don’t like the heroine chic of the 90s, but mcbling was just exploitative, the choices were so limited and looked unflattering in the end, it wasn‘t fun as a child to see the representation of violence and wanna be gansta life in the media
Nooo.. I dress like an adult … Brooks Brothers & Ralph Lauren. I remember a guy name Derek H. I was into told me to change my shiny low rise jeans tie up.. boho hat I look like a scare crow. But that outfit got me scouted babe 😢😢😢
I hated the Mcbling era, but it was kind of the opposite of how I was brought up AND I was going through my "not like the other girls" phase. Unless it was Gwen Stefani for some reason. That was acceptable to preteen me 😂 Edit: I was really into the layering lol
@@jennaabarclay I assumed you were 18 in 2004 because of the prom picture and was shocked haha, still, thought you were in your late 20's😇... 35 is still young though just saying!!
so the hot fuchsia mesh g-string with the silver glitter bubble letter "luscious" on the front that I got when I asked my Mom for my first thong... that's mcbling right? XD
we are slowly getting closer to the ashley tisdale red carpets era and it’s scary
holdup now the jeans under a dress ate
Or exciting 😏
I was in elementary school for most of both the Y2K and McBling eras. Those aesthetics were a HUGE staple for the majority of my childhood, and I will forever cherish that.
I love this! I was in elementary school for most of this too, but I love that these styles are coming back, sometimes I feel like the Cool Girl of my dreams LOL
@@dumbhandle424 Girl me too!
I witnessed my older sister during full Y2K mode, including wearing shiny pants to prom. What I remember that is more Y2K: sparkly or shiny tights wore with everything, one sleeved tops, off the shoulder tops, short haircuts with flipped out ends, Doc Martens/tall and big shoes of many varieties, that cherub art print that was one EVERYTHING (ngl, iconic.)
Oh god the one sleeved tops. I had a black and hot pink one sleeved shirt from hot topic and I thought it was the ~*~pinnacle~*~ of cool.
It’s amazing how things come back around. It feels like we’ve seen a lot of the McBling era come back, just with a modern twist
Absolutely!! And it’s interesting to me because culturally we’re in a similar place post pandemic as we were post 9/11 too
@@jennaabarclay that’s a really good point!
@@jennaabarclay Thats a very insightfull observation
I love the McBling era. Everyone confuses the two a lot. I was alive for both eras but I was more conscious during the McBling era and tbh now that I’m older with adult money I can dress like the girls on tv and magazines that I used to see lol 😂😂
Love this!! I'd never heard about McBling before, but the distinction from Y2K is so obvious to me now thanks to your explanation 💖
I'm SO grateful you have so many real life examples, not just celebrity pictures! The authenticity is so different than just seeing celebrities wearing trends or whatever
I was in highschool during this. So hard to believe.
Me too! Yikes 🤣🤣
@@jennaabarclay SAME. Class of '05
Labels were just as important in the late 90s as the early 2000s for me! Remember Airwalk, Guess, Ikeda, Roxy, Calvin Klein, Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Joe Boxer, Starter, Ralph Lauren and Polo
Jenna, if you read this by chance please consider writing books on this! You are the ultimate cool girl and you explain everything in exact detail. Seriously, if a consultant or fashion director was needed for movies or television on y2k and 2000's fashion you are the expert!!!!
"Extreme luxury but a little trash" MEEEE
I love the Y2K and McBling era, even the early 2010s I just love the style for some reason even though it's hated by most people lol. I was born in 2004 so I didn't get to experience it in full, but man it was a huge part of my childhood. Wish I can go back to those times but as a teen instead of a kid.
I love McBling. It’s screamed luxury and maximalism.
McBling also overlapped with Emo/Scene, which explains why it was kind of a more flashy, bright, gaudy version of Goth. It makes sense why, when I think about it.
totally different kinds of people
Scene was way tackier than emo. The early 2000s emo was more tame than mid or peak mid 2000s emo, but the style was still not as crazy as scene style. I think the embodiment of scene style was emo rap with electronic (electrocore? or everything -core) influence or whatever by music groups like Brokencyde, lol.
@@NormieNeko I agree with you, but I lumped them together because, at least where I grew up, the styles/groups did mingle together and go one way or the other depending on their mood. The emo kids still liked pops of bright color, etc
@@arikalamari19 Scene and emo different than goth? Yes, I'm aware. But during the time I grew up, there weren't really any goth people anymore and were replaced by the next-gen (ie scene/emo). And those two groups had very heavy overlap where I'm from, so I lumped them together.
As an Alternative adult, having had been an alternative teen during that time yes, Mcbling was a HUGE part of scene during the rise of what I call “the skinny jeans era” scene kids or kids attempting the style look waaaaay different from ugg wearing, blingy, betsy johnson scene kids of 2007-2008
I was too young to remember this but I just wanna say that I think all your videos are interesting and that you do a great job explaining these things. Also your youtube shorts are pretty funny. :]
Thank you!!
Seconded!
In high school for me at least was the playboy bunny and belly rings and color and low rise with glitter and blonde hair and tan. We all looked trash lol I remember a very specific outfit, playboy diamond belly ring, a top that was literally a corset, low rise now back pocket jeans, hot pink flip flops, long blonde hair with side bang and super tan, dark eye liner. Good times.
thats beautiful, I would love that
This is an exceptionally accurate and detailed analysis of the McBling phenomenon. Spot on! It's like I'm reliving high school and my twenties. You've nailed the buildup and exit trends and the cultural influences fueling all this.
HOW did I forget about the pants with the built-in belt!? 😭😭😭
Thank you! I’m so glad someone else saw this mistaken association with Y2K! I would be interested in your thoughts on overlooked 90s color pallets/trends too. 90s was not all grunge! I definitely remember seeing a lot of that (for lack of a better term) “Coffee House” vibe? Like, rich purples, burgundy’s, and mustard yellow. Kinda hippie causal?
Like older episodes of Friends? Love it
Its true that there was big difference. Thanks for video! I'm in love with early 00! Glad it's acceptable for now again haha😂 As a teen I was edgy, and my young self would have more questions than answers seeing me enjoy these styles lol
McBling is the real life equivalent of the ridiculous fashion of the rich in Hunger Games.
I miss 2003-2007 ..the best years!
Lovely video, super informative! Your explanation reminds me of the wording in a textbook I read for a Consumer Cultures course I took as an honors elective. It was definitely a challenge to analyze but so interesting (sadly we didn't cover American fashion beyond luxury brand loyalty)! I'd attend all your lectures with utmost attention haha
Honestly my entire wardrobe is this vibe and I’m only 18 ❤❤
Thank God I was still in little girl frocks and pinafore at that point. If I was a teenager then, I wouldn’t be able to look back at my teenage photos and not cringe. 😂
Me myself as an elder millennial am so relieved we did not have camera phones yet 😂😂
I haaaated the mcbling era, there was such a huge pressure to tan and show skin.
and ed hardy!! i used to love my rhinestoned ed hardy t shirt as a kid lol
it was pretty informative! i was a child in 2000s and lived in Ukraine, so it's not that easy to understand what was going on in fashion
Your videos are amazing. You’re taking me back.
This was middle school for me. Miss this SOooo much!!! Take me back!!!! 😩❤️ I had no worries but hanging out with my friends.
Super informative. Love your videos and shorts. I’m from WI, too :) I relate to your material so much. Shout out to the Fox River Mall.
I loved your picture with a flower in hand! It just screams summertime to me 😍
I love it how she says "MickBling" instead of "MackBling"
How do you remember all of this?! Impressive! And thank you for the trip down memory lane!
This is so cool! Do you have a video on the fashion that took place during the 2007-2011 period? I'm aware that there was still eccentric & colorful clothes during this time, espeically with things like JUICY COUTURE, but I just remember very simplistic clothes with darker or grungier color patterns, some call it "y2k grunge" and it's honestly a nice fashion pallete lol.
I remember the day in high school when I realized low rise flares were on their way out in like 2004, but I still didn’t buy my first pair of low rise skinny jeans until 2006.
I think mcbling is basically what they call the „bimbo aesthetic“ now
Great video, love these topics! I love McBling style, especially the later years of it!
There is also 2K1 aesthetics, which is like the bridge between Y2K & McBling. Think American flag t-shirts, sweaty looks (Brintey Slave 4 u video) American Pie type movies etc.
I dont like the term "mc bling" but I definitely remember all this stuff. I was also definitely an indie sleeze though and I think the term is v appropriate
Pepe Jeans with the crazy patchworks was super popular in the North East (Jersey,New York)
I was born in 04 and remember wearing a lot of similar stuff in kindergarten, so it's a really nostalgic style for me
I love ur vids sadly I was born in 2011 so I missed all of the good 90s-2000
Thank you for making this ❤ so many confuse the two!
I was like in late middle school trying to emulate all of this, & so my mother was rightfully concerned 😂
Good times!!... miss those days. Fashion was really fun. Its always fun but it was bright, fun and creative back then ☺
This still feels so recent to me…but then I remember it’s as long ago as the 70s were when I was a teenager in the 90s, and my parents talked about the 70s & I thought it was as old fashioned as the Victorian era😭😭😭
Yass! I was an indie sleaze girl, myself.
This is the most real good representation of the y2k time on UA-cam right now! 🤭
I graduated high school in 2003 and it was right after- like fall 2003 that the McBling started
I swear... the blonde orange/tanned barbie dressed in hot pink was everything.. i mean everything im 2004
Lip glosses... in hot pink, coral and bright red... omg
I remember the McBling era. I wore a lot of plaid knee shorts and wore a lot of shirts that had glitter writing on it and sweatpants with words on the butt.
Yes… it was so much fun wearing Track suits with big glasses!!!!
Miss . The jeans I had to wear low high & being so plastic!!!
🙌
Super dieting !!!
I still remember when a friend got me one of those lingerie shirts for a gift and I opened it at an elementary school I volunteered at. My teacher freaked and said “girl you can’t open lingerie in here!” And we just rolled our eyes and said “it’s a shirt” . 😂😂
I loved this era. It was so much fun.
Loved the juicy couture stores
Lmmfao I remember having a bunch of rhinestones on my flip phone. It was a repressed memory until I saw this video. I have no idea what the heck I was thinking.
This is actually SO educational.
My sister was in the mcbling time of her life when she went to her sr prom in 2007 in a very similar hot pink, sweetheart neckline, poofy bottom dress that had more and more Bavarian crystals as it went down and high top chucks with hot pink laces. Lol
cant wait for the transition into indie sleaze era video :)
I had a similar belt and I loved it SO much. It was silver glitter on one side and reversed to black glitter on the other. I would wear it out with my low rise jeans and a tube top and felt the height of fashion 😂
Anybody remember the metallic jeans? Those were amazing.
I feel like 2018/2019 we saw an 90's comeback, the mini handbag, oversized/cargo jeans, long skirts. Then 2020 - 2022 it was kind of the Y2K era, and now we are slowly moving into the Mcbling era. I feel like handbags and sunglasses are getting bigger, while skirts and dresses are getting shorter. My prediction is that next will be kind of 2010/2013 fashion revival, with statement neckless (they are popping in stores now), business casual style etc.
I would have thought that 2007-2010 style would come back first? That would make sense as there are parallels between that era and now, with the 2007 financial crisis sending shockwaves throughout society, and now with the post pandemic cost of living crisis.
@@ThePsychicFish It makes total sense! Im not sure what was popping in 2007/2009, because I was only 7-9 at the time. However, I see a lot of stores selling statements necklaces, oversized bags/ sunglasses and skinny jeans. I associate that with 2011-2014 fashion
@@gabrielcarvalho6085 hm thats a good question, I was 10-13 at that time, but my biggest concern back then was playing need for speed and burnout on my PS3 lol.
In hindsight, I do remember pop music shifting to a more club/party centric direction, which I would say was kinda proto-EDM? I would also say it was a more pure time, the last period before the divide between the online world and the real world was blurred. You had to go on a computer to access social media.
Back then smartphones weren't ubiquitous, and everyone didn't have a hd camera in their pocket to whip out at a moments notice. I remember blackberry phones were all the rage briefly, just before iPhones came and dominated. Back then everyone wasnt looking down into their phones as much (although there were definitely phoneaholics back then lol)
It was also the era of the UA-cam OGs, Ray William Johnson was king back then with his =3 show. You had Nigahiga, Shane Dawson, KassemG, Jenna Marbles, TimothyDeLaGhetto, Swoozie, Smosh, Mychonny, Glozell, Scmoyoho, Wong Fu, Jon Lajoie etc... These were all just regular people who made random stuff, very DIY. I find it funny how the younger people today don't pay respects or even know about the UA-cam OGs. I also remember how these early UA-camrs would sometimes say crazy out of pocket shit because being "cancelled" didn't exist then.
Don't get me started on MySpace n shit too lmao, I was abit too young for MySpace I didn't care about it, but my big sister was crazy about that. MySpace was a LOT more personalised and customisable than modern social media, and was oddly way better at the "social" part of social media than what we have today!
My big sister was also crazy about Kpop, she showed me the music video for Eat You Up by Boa in 2009, then in subsequent years you had the 2nd generation Kpop stars like 2ne1, BIGBANG, Girls Generation, Fx, etc... each of which had their hordes of fanatical stans. Funnily I don't see the newer Kpop stans acknowledging these older Kpop stars much... Even though they actually made some pretty cool music, I liked 2ne1 the most
Hm what else... Late 2000s was the last hurrah for rock music in the mainstream... Carried by emo, pop punk and indie bands, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, The Hives, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, The Killers, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Muse. Since this period rock music has largely faded from the mainstream charts and doesn't hold much currency in pop culture. I predict that it's high time for rock music to make it's comeback, especially because of the recent oversaturation of trap hiphop, which I feel has lead to the creative stagnation of the genre and a sense of apathy and exasperation in the audience.
One last thing I would say about late 2000s music... Is that while there was a lot of generic, nauseating club music... There were a lot of BANGER pop hits!!! I'm talking
Timbaland - (any song he touched),
Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up/The Sweet Escape,
Amy Winehouse - Valerie/Back to Black/Rehab
Adele - Chasing Pavements/Rumour Has It,
MIKA - Big Girls,
Klaxons - (anything they made),
Kanye - Stronger/Heartless
Every Rihanna hit
Fergie - Clumsy/Glamourous
Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway
Sugababes - About You Now
Girls Aloud - Call The Shots
Britney Spears - Gimme more
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr. A
Estelle - American Boy
P!nk - So What
Kid Cudi - Day n Nite
MGMT - Kids
Beyonce - Halo
Kasabian - Fire/Club Foot
Jay Z - Run This Town
Florence + The Machine - You've Got The Love/ Dog Days are Over
Kate Nash - Do-Wah-Do/Foundations
Lily Allen - The Fear
Chester French - She Loves Everybody
And let me say... At work they play the mainstream hits of the moment on the Radio all the time.. and it has NOTHING on the songs which were popping in the late 2000s!!
mcbling gives me warflashbacks, i remember trash frat douche tv and 50 cent hiphop pimp glamour
Yeah seriously lol I hate that it's made a comeback, from people who didn't even live through it all and fully understand what it was like back then lol
@@corninyourpoop 👌 and the fashion was a joke too, i don’t like the heroine chic of the 90s, but mcbling was just exploitative, the choices were so limited and looked unflattering in the end, it wasn‘t fun as a child to see the representation of violence and wanna be gansta life in the media
I was a child at the time, but I looked up to teenage girls and women in their 20s who dressed like this.
Yesss big sis Jenna!! I cannot wait for the next episode
It took me about halfway into the video to realize the majority of examples she was showing was of her 🤣
Nooo.. I dress like an adult … Brooks Brothers & Ralph Lauren.
I remember a guy name Derek H. I was into told me to change my shiny low rise jeans tie up.. boho hat I look like a scare crow.
But that outfit got me scouted babe 😢😢😢
Omg so people really just call McBling a y2k that’s crazy
i was born in 09 so i missed all of this 😭
same! i honestly wish i was a millennial instead of gen-z
@@valentine444 fr lol
when I think of mcbling, I immediately think of Snooki, I hope that's accurate
So I'm extreme bcbling and sometimes alt depending on mah mood.. sometimes a mixture 👀😂
same lmaooo im either boyish or too girly
Did you ever make the indie sleaze video? I’m not finding it
Yes! I remember McBling! 😂 So very gaudy!
I was born I. 2008, I missed done of these lol, I got to experience some tho
Oh gosh my son was born in 2008!
@@gmo5679 wow nice! :)
Really interesting! ❤
I love the mcbling omg
Do you have a way I can PM you? I have some questions around make up and covering redness.
I hated the Mcbling era, but it was kind of the opposite of how I was brought up AND I was going through my "not like the other girls" phase. Unless it was Gwen Stefani for some reason. That was acceptable to preteen me 😂
Edit: I was really into the layering lol
McBling is why I hated pop culture in my teens and 20s 😅
I was in high school during this time.
I'm still too dumb to understand what y2k is
I have a vid on that too
omg the playboy bunny yessss
Girl are you 36 ?? You look so much younger, your skin and overall look 😍😘😘
I’m 35 🤣👵🏼
@@jennaabarclay I assumed you were 18 in 2004 because of the prom picture and was shocked haha, still, thought you were in your late 20's😇... 35 is still young though just saying!!
How does Jenna look younger today versus her high school/college pics? 😎
omg is there a playlist for these?
Paris Hilton was the queen of this era.
This makes me realize how young I am holy moly
I'd like to know the name 2020s fashion will be called in a few years
so the hot fuchsia mesh g-string with the silver glitter bubble letter "luscious" on the front that I got when I asked my Mom for my first thong... that's mcbling right? XD
When are you going to talk about indie sleaze and girlboss?
Omg i remember all of this!
Basically mcbling is y2k gone hedonistic
I love history so I REALLY liked this video.
I made it at 7 mins
The mcbling era looks trashy
Please move your hands less. I love you but you hand movements are insanely distracting and covering a lot of form the picture.
What would you call Ashley Tisdale/ Hilary Duff style of the 00s?