Parents’ guide to late ’90s pop music.
(from Entertainment Weekly, 1999)
“Girl talk”
Britney Spears’ Sex/Violence Quotient: None? Tell that to everyone watching the “…Baby One More Time” video in 1998. Or in 2012. Also, fuck you, EW, for Jay-Z’s “typical lyric.”
This reminded me of when I asked my parents to buy me the Backstreet Boys’ first album, one of the first secular CDs I owned, even after we listened to a song and my mom balked at the line “Are you sexual?”
“Moooomm, they all thank God in the CD booklet. They’re good people!”
