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Remember when nostalgia was considered lame?

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2002 and 1999 also use nostalgic visual cues to sell their respective remember-when flights of fancy.

Feelin cool in my youth, relaxin/ No money, no problems/ It was easy back then.

Theres a deeper sense of yearning in those lines, something that scratches the surface beyond Lol Gushers.

The decade progressed, things got increasingly more horrible, and suddenlyeverything 1999 included was practically chillwave.