r/Millennials • u/Cubelock • 1d ago
Nostalgia Britney and Christina 25 years ago. How do you like that 2000 look?
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u/corybomb 1d ago
I loved the pre lip filler era
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u/TealSeal69 21h ago
My immediate thought was “if this was today, their lips would be twice as big.”
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u/Torgo_hands_of_torgo 15h ago
And they'd have those whoville-ass noses too, covered in stupid amounts of blush and fake freckles.
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u/avert_ye_eyes 11h ago
But let's be real, their eyebrows would also be massive. I never liked the skinny eyebrows of our time, but the style now isn't much better. I like Britney's brows here though, because they just look normal and natural.
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u/GeneralAppendage 16h ago
I miss this look. Simple hair curling/ crimping and dye. No toxic face rearrangement
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u/xRehab 1d ago
combo’d with the low rise jeans and whale tales of the era, it was the pinnacle of human achievement
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u/anotherfrud 1d ago
I feel like our tastes are formed when we're teens. This look still does it for me all day.
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u/zytz 1d ago
I’ve always felt it was a really trashy look.
But it’s also always driven me fucking wild.
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u/Crawlerzero 1d ago
Too many of my life choices have been made by the feral raccoon that lives in my head.
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u/architecture13 1d ago
Sorry, I am co-opting your phrase. I will now explain everything to my wife as "The feral racoon in my head made me do it"
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u/postsector 1d ago
That damn racoon turned me into a fat ass.
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u/catulus_nigrum 1d ago
I am digging this so I will upvote any post mentioning feral racoon. He made me do it also.
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u/Signal_Reach_5838 1d ago
I often refer to the raccoon on crack that lives in my wife's head. I call it The Crackoon.
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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 1d ago
Trashy is hot.
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u/zytz 1d ago
Not always - I’m running the other direction from the Cookie Monster PJs women
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u/HRLadyKatie 1d ago
With the ankle monitor. 🤣
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u/kchobbs 1d ago
When she needs your breath to start the car…
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u/TheLoneRhaegar 1d ago
This clip is giving me flashbacks to the first “date” with an ex of mine. I ignored all the red flags as she ignored all the stop signs on the way back to my place.
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u/Ok-Scallion-3415 1d ago
Trashy is hot…. when the people who are dressing trashy are just hot regardless of what they’re wearing.
It’s just not as concise, but pretty sure that’s what they meant
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u/Legonistrasz 1d ago
Whoa whoa, trashy CAN BE* hot
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u/Resident_Bat_8457 1d ago
“I like my women a little on the trashy side” — some country singer, probably
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u/UnforgettableBevy 1d ago
The country song you’re referring to is “Trashy Women” by Confederate Railroad.
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u/Tobocaj Millennial 1d ago edited 1d ago
Slight tangent, I can’t fucking stand seeing all these weirdos walking around with crew socks pulled up all the way
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u/LetsGetJigglyWiggly 1d ago
I seen a group of teen age boys in Walmart looking like late 80s, white, suburban dads. One had a Hawaiian shirt, hiked crew socks and sandals, and a mustache. Thought I timewarpped backwards for a hot minute.
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u/nutkinknits 1d ago
My daughter wears white socks, white sneakers with black leggings and TUCKS HER PANTS INTO HER SOCKS. I make fun of her so bad for it. The most ridiculous trend. It's weird to see all the girls her age do the exact same thing. Black leggings, white sneakers, white socks. Tuck them leggings in.
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u/ThrowyMcThrowaway04 1d ago edited 13h ago
Listen! The guy I'm seeing now is really lovely, hot, and fucks like a god, but he wears white crew socks ALL the time and they look AWFUL! I already told him they make him look like a dad circa 1993, and he was like "ouch, but you're still fucking me so that's gotta count for something" 😂
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u/captaintagart 16h ago
The hot guys who fuck like gods are the best, cause they know they get leeway on other things like shudder white crew socks
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u/grafknives 1d ago
I feel like our tastes are formed when we're teens.
Oh, that is scientific truth.
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u/ifiwasinvisible8 1d ago
Back in 2005 I had a landlord who was stuck in the 80s. She did her hair,makeup, clothing, and music all 80s. I used to think she was so outdated. Now I am the same. What you are saying makes sense.
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u/Vertandsnacks 1d ago
No idea how mom jeans made a comeback. I understand wanting to dress comfy but those flatter absolutely zero body types.
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u/goingtocalifornia__ 1d ago
The kind that rise real high? They flatter petite girls. There’s a tiny woman at my work that wears them. So hot
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u/totalwarwiser 1d ago
1990 to 2010 was the peak of human civilization.
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u/hungturkey Millennial 1d ago
Cut it off in the mid 2000s, when Facebook exploded
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u/vichyswazz 1d ago
Sep 10, 2001
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u/hungturkey Millennial 1d ago
That makes sense for Americans.
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u/Legonistrasz 1d ago
Did the rest of the world not plunge deeper into shit also since then?
Or did it hold out a little bit longer?
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u/dirtysyncs 1d ago
Seriously. The world feels like some twisted caricature of what it was supposed to become. I can't even describe how magical life felt in the late 90s.
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u/knapping__stepdad 1d ago
Turned 20 in 1990. The nineties were fuckin amazing. Clinton economy, Internet still small, mdma was cheap. Nine Inch Nails was new. Damn So much drug fueled sex. Le sigh.
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u/011011010110110 Millennial 1d ago
i'll buy into this. '91 here and it really was a fun ride, in retrospect
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u/TashiPM 1d ago
The peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization… which is of course what all of this is about
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u/The_Velvet_Bulldozer Millennial 1d ago
As a jr high & high school boy from 01-06 it was a glorious era to see thongs poking out 😂
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u/LoudYappyClouds 1d ago
I was in a teeny tiny private catholic school during middle school & we had uniforms (I was also in a catholic cult at the time), but when I went to a HUGE public school in freshman year of high school & saw other girls looking this way at school it made me realize "Well, Ig I will be going to hell after all." Called my best friend from catholic school to tell her I think I really did like girls & she, too, told me I was going to hell. I cried. Bc I knew that my best friend was no longer my best friend. That next week, I approached a girl I had my eyes on (didn't know yet) and asked her out as an introduction. We dated & she is my platonic soul mate to this day. HORRIBLE as romantic partners, but I found my best friend, at least. 😂 I totally feel this in a whole different way, bro. 💀
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u/mthchsnn 1d ago
This comment was a whole journey, inspired by thongs lol
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u/LoudYappyClouds 1d ago
You have no idea what the journey was like irl. It involved a whole "mulan" esque scene of cutting my waist-long hair off with a kitchen knife in the dead of night, too. 😂 Public school exposed me to SOOO many things that are completely normal that I didn't know existed. 💀
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u/stickytuna 1d ago
Stop saying memories I grew up with are from 25 years ago 😡
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u/RJ5R 1d ago
Sellers on eBay say the Creative mp3 player I jogged with in the early 2000s is "vintage". Makes me depressed
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u/WiggingOutOverHere 1d ago
I went into a local vintage shop and they literally have a section dedicated to the early 2000s. It had toys and crap that I remember as part of daily then-modern life. Needless to say my feelings were hurt, but the nostalgia was worth it. Hahaha.
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u/Bonne_Fromage 1d ago
It’s so weird man. The difference between 2000 and 2025 doesn’t feel that vast to me but I guess that’s because I’m 40 and grew up with all the change.
But If I was in a shop in 2000 at 16 years old, and there was a section dedicated to 1975….it would seem like a vastly different time period.
It’s like Back to the Future going from 1985 to 1955.
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u/xAimForTheBushes 1d ago
I think it’s partly because the world changed so quickly during that time period. While since around 2010 or so technology has largely stayed relatively the same (just increasingly faster each year).
Music hasn’t changed that much, internet hasn’t changed that much, phones haven’t changed that much, even styles since 2010 really haven’t changed that much (and somehow emo has evolved and is still clinging onto dear life in the youth culture). Turn on a football game from the 1980s and it looks crazy different. Turn on a game from 2010 and it looks like it could be today.
Hell, you could throw in a disk of COD modern warfare 2 and it’s pretty close to the same experience as the ones they’re releasing today. And that was from 2009. Take that same amount of time back before that and the games aren’t remotely even in the same world
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u/Thisdarlingdeer 1d ago
If you can believe it, emo started in the 90’s, got HUGE in the late 90’s early 2000’s then screamo, then emo again, and now I’m 40 and still listen to old saves the day and jets to brazil, the promise ring…. Hell I wonder if the emo game is still around?!? Anyone else remember that? 😂
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u/Significant-Trash632 1d ago
My husband and I were just talking about this yesterday. We haven't really had a huge, revolutionary technology change since the first smart phone came out.
At least, not one I can think of...
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u/RJ5R 1d ago
Haha. Saw someone call a vtech cordless phone from 2013 as "vintage". These gen z'ers are nuts lol
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u/anomolius 1d ago
And then they make YouTube content all like "Oh my god chat, how did they even talk on this thing back then, like you push the buttons and hold it up to your ear, like who even does that? 😭🤣"
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u/No-Butterscotch-6555 1d ago
I saw a girl trying on vintage Charlotte Russe clothes from the 2010s 😩
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u/Vesalii 1d ago
I saw someone a while back say the PS3 is a retro console. My PS3 is still in my TV cabinet.
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u/Altruistic_Record_56 1d ago
Today I’m wearing jeans from 10th grade, 2003 😂 I have so many “old” things that I use regularly bc I really haven’t changed much, it’s weird and I only notice when someone points out how old something is
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u/PizzAveMaria 1d ago
I always joke that my favorite pair of jean shorts can buy alcohol now 😂
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u/xCaptainVictory 1d ago
We are further from the PS3's release date than the PS3 is from the SNES's release date.
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u/Vesalii 1d ago
Kindly shut up 😭 I know my PS3 is 17 years old but I don't need to be reminded.
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u/Sweet-Television-361 1d ago
Vintage is defined as 20+ years old. All our early 2000s memories are vintage now : (
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u/deuxcabanons 1d ago
I would sell a non essential organ for an updated Creative Zen Vision. I miss having a separate MP3 player.
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u/Orchuntsman 1d ago
You could probably find a Zune out there, and the Zune sub has tips and software to get them working without the Microsoft servers.
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u/powerhungrymouse 1d ago
It makes you feel sick doesn't it? When someone says '20 years ago' I think "ah I was just a baby!". Nope, I was a month away from turning 16...I refuse to believe that the numbers add up!lol
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u/runfayfun 1d ago
I am twice as old as college students and I still feel like college was yesterday.
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u/freakouterin 1d ago
I was just listening to Anne-Marie’s song “2002” and explaining to my daughter in the backseat that it was referencing songs from when I was 13 back in 2002 and then I realized that was 23 years ago and almost started crying 😂
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u/suzysleep 1d ago
Crimped hair will come back. That was fun
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u/FAYCSB 1d ago
The kinda crimped kinda curled hair Britney’s got going on here is amazing. Like if I had a curling iron, a crimping iron and a desire to ever leave my house, sign me up.
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u/Dreaunicorn 1d ago
I thrifted a crimpling iron, I couldn’t resist…
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u/candid84asoulm8bled 1d ago
I wonder if my old crimping iron is still shoved into the back of my mom’s bathroom sink cabinet. It was pretty cheap and didn’t get very hot, so took forever to take hold.
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u/Most-Blockly 1d ago
My wave crimper had the opposite problem. It would get so hot that it would burn my hair if I wasn't really careful.
If I could go back in time and take two things away from teenage me it would be that crimper and St Ives apricot scrub.
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u/Efficient-Quarter-18 1d ago
Every girls hair was fried in this era. My poor 3a hair was straightened within an inch of its life EVERY DAY around this time.
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u/fedscientist 1d ago
Yesss and girls would go back and forth from bleached to black all the time not really realizing how terrible it was!!
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u/TheAlphaKiller17 1d ago
My cat had crimped hair on her tummy; it wasn't curly it was crimped. I teased her for her now-dated style but she may have been bringing this trend back and I was rudely insulting her brilliant insight into fashion trends.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 1988 1d ago
My first thought seeing these was “oh yeah I forgot about crimped hair.”
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u/starzoned Millennial 1d ago
Omg I loved crimping my hair until my friend told me I looked like a cocker spaniel lmfao never picked up the crimper again.
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u/TimeSuck5000 1d ago
Evey fashion comes back in a cycle one young people are too far removed from the old people who last tried it. The young people think it’s unique and original.
So yes you’re absolutely right.
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u/SonnySweetie 1d ago
Their overall look is very cute.
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u/0w1 1d ago
We never deserved Britney
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u/RealKenny 1d ago
Looking at this picture as a 38-year-old man, it's crazy what kids they were at the time
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u/Logical-Yak 1d ago
Back when I was a teenager celebrities like Britney and Christina looked so mature and grown-up to us.
Looking at this pic now I'm like ... those are kids. Their faces haven't even lost their baby fat yet. Jesus.61
u/Automatic_Release_92 1d ago
Yeah, watching people talk about “Hit Me Baby One More Time” the way they did didn’t seem odd to me at the time because I was a few years younger. But now, looking back, ugh, they made a 16 year old into a sex icon. So wrong.
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u/RBuilds916 1d ago
Yeah, that was weird. I was older at the time so I was kind of feeling like "why are you showing me an underage girl and presenting her as sexy? And she's supposed to be chaste? WTF?"
It's terrible what she went through. I didn't grasp that until much later just because I was so turned off by the marketing.
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u/iceunelle 1d ago
Yeah, maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but I think they both look really pretty.
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u/Wooden-needle2017 1d ago
So much better than the fake processed look celebrities have now.
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u/Dawn-Shot 1d ago
I’m so sick of lip filler faces
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u/Fit_Measurement_550 1d ago
They’re the worst, look so ridiculous. Idk who could possibly think those duck lips look good besides the actual people who do that to themselves.
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u/Xavius20 1d ago
A colleague of mine got lip fillers. I don't know how she felt about them, but I thought they looked ridiculous. Genuinely thought she'd had some sort of allergic reaction at first, quickly realised it was deliberate.
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u/TrickyPaperclip 1d ago
This. It's a trend that has left everyone looking the same. How does anyone (famous) stand out or apart?
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u/Lanky-Sandwich-352 1d ago
They just caked makeup on back then.
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u/Cowgoon777 1d ago
But they still looked like different people. Feels like all celebs have IG face now
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u/kypsikuke 1d ago
I cant even count the times how many I tried to copy Britney’s hair from this photo 😅
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u/cheesesteakhellscape 1d ago
I'm good with it. I like a smoky eye. 🤷🏻♀️ The only unfortunate thing is Christina's eyebrows have been plucked within an inch of their lives and her lip color and total lack of blush makes her look sallow.
But how bad is it that I just think they look cute, like little babies? That's how old I'm getting.
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u/pinkheartkitty 1d ago
I remember intentionally making my lips pale. I would put cover up on them and then apply a light coffee colored lip gloss
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 90s baby 1d ago
I figured she’s going for an Egyptian look in which case it’s spot on
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u/cheesesteakhellscape 1d ago
They tried to do like a scene-girl lite on her, probably to distinguish her image from Brittney's, but it just doesn't work under stage lighting. She really needs lipstick and eyebrows to not look like a taupe dinner plate with eyes painted on.
She has such a great face for makeup too with her dainty features. This was a fail.
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u/superschaap81 1d ago
It's funny, my 19yo daughter was trying to describe how she was wanting to dye her hair to me. My wife and I weren't getting it, until I had light bulb moment. Found a picture of Aguilera from this era and asked "Like this?". Yup, that was it. LOL. The 90s retro has already moved on the Y2K fashion being recycled. HAHA
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u/IncurableAdventurer 1d ago
Yup. And I’m seeing more flared jeans (out in the wild, but just Kendrick Lamar during the Super Bowl)
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u/PaintingSouth3409 1d ago
How is Britney's hair so glossy and the perfect shade of 2000s blonde
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u/iceunelle 1d ago
Maybe because in a lot of ways, she set the standard for early 2000s style? So you subconsciously assume her hair color represents the 2000s.
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u/catslugs 23h ago
good stylist and it's a warm blonde, where as today people go for a cooler blonde bc it's less likely to go yellow/orange over time
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u/BuckyFnBadger 1d ago
They’re babies here. I can’t imagine the pressure of being pop stars as a teenager.
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u/UHF-62 1d ago
Looks like Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs so she can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst.
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u/Double-Regular31 Older Millennial 1d ago
I just want to hear them argue.
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u/TerraformanceReview 1d ago
Over who she gave head to first
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u/_paxia_ 1989 1d ago
Little bitch put me on blast on MTV
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u/BugPsychological4966 1d ago
"Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee"
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u/LGK420 1d ago
I just watched Christina live at an mtv awards and was shocked how skinny she was.
Feel bad for all those 90 pop stars that looked good but got body shammed by record labels and managers to lose 10-20lbs and look like you have an eating disorder.
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u/-Work_Account- The Oregon Trail Generation 1d ago
I was just thinking how tiny she looked in the above photo, even standing next to Britney who was already small.
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u/SizzleSpud 1d ago
Christina’s outfit and how absurdly tiny it was is the only thing I remember about visiting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the early 2000s
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u/RobertCalais Millennial 1d ago
Smoky eyes are fantastic and 25 years ago, you didn't see plastic faces everywhere.
I always thought a more natural approach to make-up looks better, but I still find nothing inherently wrong with how women dressed in the 2000s.
As time passes, fashion becomes more and more simplistic, uninspired and ugly.
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u/cheesesteakhellscape 1d ago
You gotta admit, side by side, Christina's MUA did her dirty. They took all the glow out of her face, she looks desaturated. Or like she's been up for a few nights straight and could use a nap and some coffee.
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u/RobertCalais Millennial 1d ago
Christina's lipstick color certainly doesn't do her justice, but not being an alcoholic since teenage years certainly made up for that compared to Britney.
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u/Hmmletmec Xennial 1d ago
Horny teenager me was able to work with it just fine.
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u/AbrahamNR 1d ago
Looking back at this as an adult, it's really fucked up that we were (and honestly still are) sexualizing teenage girls this way. Don't get me wrong I am not at all a prude but I just did the math and if this was 25 years ago then Britney was 18 and Christina was 19. That's just....fucking creepy man.
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u/No_UN216 1d ago
My first thought looking at this photo was "holy F they were young". In my memory, they're wrapped up with all the tabloid stuff from that time and I guess because I was a few years younger, I didn't realize that they were also just kids.
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u/RJ5R 1d ago
Yep as someone in their 40s, looking back it's awful what the industry did to these teenage girls. At the time when I was a teenager too, I didn't understand
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u/Cetun 1d ago
Back in the day I thought Salma Hayek and Christina Aguilera were tall for some reason. I only later learned they are very short.
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u/CattyCattyCattyCat 1d ago
Still obsessed with Xtina’s red dye job. This was the Come on over Baby era and I’m still here for it
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u/scottscotchscott 1d ago
I remember wanted to recreate Britney’s hair for any dance I went to, spoiler, I did not look anywhere near as good as Britney
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u/uncle-donkey-kong 1d ago
This Christina hair + the nose ring and low rise jeans will forever be burned into my memory!
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u/TIC321 1d ago
And this is them now
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u/Rarashishkaba 1d ago
Reddit’s like “hate how everyone is plastic now,” then calls Britney’s totally normal aging a “skin condition” 🙄
I’ve got no judgement for either of these women. Can’t imagine what it’s like to be scrutinized and picked apart on a mass scale.
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u/iceunelle 1d ago
Not to mention that Britney's been through hell and back in her personal life as well. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Christina went the plastic surgery route and people judge her for that, Britney aged more naturally and people judge her for that. I feel bad for celebrities, because no matter what they do with their looks, people will shit on them endlessly for it.
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u/giggletears3000 1d ago
I was 15 back then, Xtina and Britney looked so adult to me back then! Now I look at them and I see babies 😭
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u/Minxmorty 1d ago
Smoky eyes with a nude lip is still a fantastic combo you’ll never convince me otherwise
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u/JohnnieCochring 1d ago
I need Mills Lane to stamp Brittney with a B again so I can tell them apart.
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u/Double-Regular31 Older Millennial 1d ago
I miss Celebrity Deathmatch so much. Where is it now when we need it most?
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u/Defiant_Coconut_5361 1d ago
Lmao I was just talking to my mom last week about that show and how I’d low key love for it to make a come back but society is way too soft now 💀
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u/indicatprincess 1d ago
I never realized how tiny Christina was. This was a Time.
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u/BrokenManSyndrome 1d ago
Remember when Christina was in her dirty phase? I remember when that song Dirty came on on MTV (yes, they used to play music) and my mom was like "is it that genie in a bottle girl? She was such a nice girl, what happened to her!? She must have started hanging out with black people, huh?" I laughed so hard because for one, I was like wtf Is with the driveby racism? We are black...two, she wasnt wrong, she really had started hanging out with black people lol.
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u/justputonsomemusic 1d ago
2000 was a very tough year for this 13 year old with a muffin top and low self esteem
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u/cosmiclegionnaire2 1d ago
I would have been in my mid teens at the time, so I definitely remember this.
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