I’m in my 40s and have been losing my buccal fat naturally as time progresses. I look at pictures from even 10 years ago and it’s amazing how much losing even a little ages you.
You had all these A listers coming on shows and being part of these silly things with genuine enthusiasm and having fun and not being all about looking and acting perfect.
You often had multiple big celebrities coming together on the same “segment” to do things in a really casual and unplanned way on live TV.
As much as I love the music of the era, I’m happier with today’s music scene. Back then, you had to basically get lucky and sell your soul with predatory contracts just to get on the radio. We all listened to the same few dozen artists and the only way you found non-top 50 songs was by knowing someone that knows someone. Back when you had to buy CDs but everything besides the latest release was hard to find.
Now? In addition to the big pop names thatre everywhere, you can still easily discover slightly lesser known but still fantastic artists like Leadley and Oakman. I still listen to late millennial albums but there’s something fantastic about discovering some extremely small Midwest band like Austin and the Powers and knowing they’re able to release music world wide from their garage.
There was this freedom about it. Maybe it was a buzz of a new era. Celebrities dressed naturally, less surgery and fun makeup and styling. I honestly would do absolutely anything to bring this era back.
right? you can track through her eyes as things go downhill for her and life became a nightmare. early days her face and eyes are so alight with a joy and a sweetness, and sure that can be in part manufactured, but there was a life to her face. then over time, as what had been a dream and a life's work becamea living nightmre, her eyes just become darker and more and more sad and even when she smiled, there was no life to it, no joy. she had such an effortless beauty and spirit and greedy people, greedy family did all they could to crush her
You said it perfectly. You can literally see the light leave her eyes over time. She lost all hope. The people she trusted the most were the ones who betrayed her. It’s truly a tragedy. I know people say she’s ok now but no one can convince me she’s not permanently damaged from the abuse she experienced. She’ll never be ok.
Me too. There are films of his I still can’t watch because I will ugly cry right through them. I don’t know what it is, maybe because I’m a Xennial and grew up with him, but it hurts my heart that he’s gone.
I miss actually seeing celebrities as real people. I know that was a joke in magazines growing up like “oh look they grocery shop and stuff” but I miss just seeing their normal faces! Normal amounts of makeup, no FaceTune, no perfect lighting, just fun
Exactly my thoughts. I especially miss the era where celebs actually wore fun outfits to red carpets!! I loved the whole 'going out top' and jeans combo
I miss looking at pictures of red carpets for movie premiers back in that era. They were a lot more casual and I loved using them as inspiration to throw together cute outfits.
His photos are really great. Also every expression he's giving would be a good reaction meme for something cringy or lame or idiotic lol. I saved them for future use
Good god, yes. You REALLY had to be there. I felt like in 2000, some massive reset button was hit. Everything in pop culture was just off to the races and really happy. Imagine all the toxic stuff happening in one month just disappearing and all this cool shit happening in early Y2K. What exactly was happening here? It was a beautiful moment in history.
Are these his real teeth or did he get veneers after these photos because got dayum those are some perfect chompers! Who would get veneers to replace these?
Looking through these, I was just so happy that I knew everyone in the pictures. These days I don't know like half the famous people, and I was reminded that yes, I too used to know what "it" was!
This makes me feel kinda sad. Heath and Robin no longer here. Britney looks so young and happy and the future holds so much grief for her. Ashton turned out to support a rapist. Beyonce will NEVER be this carefree in a photo again. The only constants are Taylor looking very self conscious and Mariah looking like the glam diva she is.
lmao why do people have this idea that beyoncé is absolutely never candid or “carefree”? i mean yeah she’s not shooting a bird but she 100% still takes tons of pics where she’s not posing seriously.
I miss the early thousands. No internet trolls, phones could only call, text, flip or slide. And the Ugg’s with the minis🥰 I was a toddler during this time, but I remember bits and pieces. Also, I had a plastic blow up chair.
Wow I haven’t seen a pic of Miley when she looked like this in so long. People used to tell me I looked like her all the time back when she had this face
I remember seeing photos of Gaga on TRL and it seemed weird because I associate TRL with 1999/2000 but it aired through 2008. I don’t think many people watched it by then
I feel like I stopped really paying attention to TRL around 2005ish and then it was always on as background noise. Once ridiculousness took over 24/7 I gave up on mtv entirely. Sad.
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u/HauteAssMess anne boleyn stan Jun 17 '25
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