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Mariah concert, Katy Perry sued Katy Perry, $3800 Richard Scarry sketchbook 🐛
Happy Thursday ❤️ I’m still mentally, physically, and emotionally integrating the experience of hearing fellow Aries Sun/Cancer Moon Mariah Carey’s whistle register in-person at her Christmas show this week. I love the Christmas songs, but now I am so desperate for a greatest hits tour. Please don’t let me buy a flight to Vegas for her mini residency there in 2025. (Unless…)
She said IT’S TIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!! so it really was the perfect occasion to take my new baby out for a spin! I am very much in love with this gigantic functioning clock handbag I got from my friends over at Spark Pretty!
Today’s topics:
🫧 I only design fun, cute, and early internet-inspired websites
💃🏻 Who can get me a job specifically as a Y2K costume designer?
🤳🏼 Everything really does start at FWB FEST
🖤 Designated Sky Ferreira section
🎄 Your annual reminder of hysterical grown adults in physical altercations over Holiday ‘It’ Toys
☕️ My favorite Gilmore Girls laaaaaa la la la la la la
🐛 NEW BOTTEGA…and Richard Scarry capsule collection
🎶 Nostalgia concerts, “selling out”, and the anniversary tour I regret not seeing
👩🏻💼 The class action lawsuit that should have been filed against Katy Perry!
💿 Who would like to buy any of my CDs for over $10,000?
ICYMI, last week’s issue had fun links…everything is un-paywalled…just read every issue ever…TY LY!!!!! Here’s Nicstalgia Wrapped, if that’s what we’re calling it.
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Huge thank you to Nicstalgia supporters who I will love forever: Janine, Marie, Liv, Mitra, CY, Chet, and Jack! 💐💐💐
📲 I’m just a simple girl in a high-tech digital world
I redesigned friend of Nicstalgia Colette Shade’s website to embody the look and feel of her forthcoming book, Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)! It’s so fun!!!¹ <3 <3 <3
Great to see Colette (and the costume designer from John Tucker Must Die omg) quoted in Ellen Gamerman’s Y2K Nostalgia Is Everywhere. Why Is the Era So Hard to Get Right? (Hi Ellen!!) The article talks about Y2K fashion as it relates to A24’s new horror(ish) movie, which has an early internet-inspired website that is very fun and cool and Nicstalgic!² I’ve talked about this topic at length in regards to cyclical trend cycles (watch: Nostalgia Isn’t “Back”…It Never Left), aesthetic misnomers (read: Stop calling it Y2K when you mean McBling), and hyper-accelerated trends (read: Paintball Theory™). Everyone tries, but few can really nail an authentic Y2K look. Who can get me a job specifically as a Y2K costume designer?
Christmas Every Day was my favorite piece that I saw at MEMORY’s curated screening of short films this past summer at FWB FEST. Was delighted to see featured and available for viewing on NYT’s Op Docs! This short film by Faye Tsakas is about the day-to-day lives of two preteen beauty & fashion influencers in Alabama. It was beautifully shot, poignantly captures the impact of social media – particularly in a secluded, rural area – and eerily pulls the curtain back on the behavioral effects of social media on children (and their parents, for that matter).
🖤 Designated Sky Ferreira section begins 🖤
• Sky recently did an interview for Vogue, and it was nice to hear from her. If you don’t know anything about her label battle and continued struggle for creative autonomy, this is a pretty good place to catch up.
• Her new song “Leash” was made for the Babygirl soundtrack, and she recently posed at its film premiere with Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek. (All of whom I saw perform live in 2023. My angels!!!!)
• This week last year, I saw Sky perform at Webster Hall for the 10 year anniversary of Night Time, My Time!!!!! Bucket list moment. “24 Hours” is my favorite Sky song for anyone wondering.
• I forgot to mention this when I went over Lisa Marie Presley’s birth chart a few weeks ago – I was pleasantly surprised to hear LMP mention her ex-husband Michael Jackson’s hairdresser, who is Sky’s grandmother, in her memoir.
🖤 Designated Sky Ferreira section ends 🖤
I love talking about nostalgic toys and enjoyed From Pong to Pokémon: A History of Holiday ‘It’ Toys. It’s that time of year again, when I remind you to watch this Cabbage Patch Doll, Tickle Me Elmo, and Furby crazes of the 80s-90s news segment that sent “otherwise dignified, calm, mannerly parents” into hysteria.
Among Walmart’s excessive holiday campaign of 15 ads is this Gilmore Girls one that I love. It features Lorelai, Luke, Kirk, and most importantly, my favorite laaaaaa la la la la la la. *Connecticut mentioned*
When I talk about New Bottega, I’m referring to the Bottega Veneta x Richard Scarry capsule collection. If I won the lottery, there would be signs!!!!!!!³
I have a lot of thoughts about this No More Nostalgia Concerts, Please article. The author said it would be nice to think the trend of playing an old album in its entirety in concert is on the verge of burnout. “Having gorged ourselves on opportunities to revel in what we already like, we might come to miss experiences that feel new, or at least dictated by a slightly less transparent relationship between art and commerce.” I disagree on two fronts. 1. Unlike music critics (the author) or melomaniacs (me), most people – the ones who stop listening to new music at 33 – go to concerts because they specifically want to hear what they know. 2. The false assumption here is that there hasn’t already been a transparent relationship between art and commerce for the last 50 years. Gen Xers’ coming-of-age trope is resisting “selling out”, aka. resenting the collective realization that art became primarily driven by commerce. It’s all Millennials have ever known, so sign me up for that reunion tour and 20th anniversary setlist.⁴
The singer Katy Perry (stage name) sued Australian fashion designer Katy Perry (real name) over the name ‘Katy Perry’. The singer won, and even though I read this article like a month ago, I’m still annoyed about it. Doesn’t Katy Perry the singer have anything better to do??? (Don’t answer that.) I personally think Kate Hudson (actress), Steve Perry (lead singer of Journey), Tyler Perry (actor/filmmaker), Linda Perry (singer-songwriter), and Matthew Perry (actor, RIP) should have filed a class-action lawsuit in 2008 against Katy Perry (née Hudson) so she couldn’t use ANY of their names.
CDs From The '80s, '90s and '00s Are Now Selling For Over $10,000. Why can’t this happen to me???? If anyone would like to buy any of my CDs for over $10,000, please get in touch immediately.
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¹ Yes I can design your website for you, but only if it’s FUN and CUTE and preferably early internet-inspired. Colette’s Y2K book is available for preorder! I’m gonna start reading my copy soon. Nicstalgia book club, anyone??
² If you’ve seen the movie already, I’m interested to hear what you thought of it. The “Oh Snap!” in the trailer broke my focus – people weren’t saying this en masse yet in 1999. Plus, that saying forever lives in my head as a mid 00s Raven Baxter catchphrase, along with “ya little nasty!!!!”
³ There’s a home video of me at age TWO reciting every line of dialogue from the Richard Scarry's Best ABC Video Ever! VHS tape. I almost cried finding this link on YouTube because it’s so nostalgic, only second in my heart to the Fisher Price Dream Dollhouse computer game.
⁴ I regret not going to Jack’s Mannequin’s 10 Years in Transit Tour, celebrating one of my favorite albums of my teenage years, Everything In Transit. I’m viscerally shaken due to the fact that it was already ten years ago. Andrew McMahon said, “I will be the first to admit, I prefer keeping my focus in the present, but I cannot deny Transit's place in my life and the lives of my fans.” This proves the point that only music heads want newness. Everyone else just wants greatest hits. Here’s to hoping we get 20 Years in Transit.