tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1517850511025804637..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: TikTok trend: late 2000s revival (scene girls, Manic Pixie Dream Girls, pop punk)agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-26807758286523194182020-10-06T16:05:04.569-04:002020-10-06T16:05:04.569-04:00When she leans in to share her earbuds so you can ...When she leans in to share her earbuds so you can listen to a band that no one's heard of yet -- that's a perfect echo of the scene in Garden State where the protag meets the MPDG for the first time.<br /><br />The headphones were still the huge honking type back in 2004, so she had to give over the set to him, and she couldn't hear it at the same time. Whereas the earbuds in the TikTok allow her to share the music between the two of them simultaneously. Nice embellishment. (Pretty sure she was playing them from an mp3 player back in '04 as well.)<br /><br />This has to be a case of independent convergence, because she drops so many overt pop culture references -- why not also name-drop "Garden State," or choose the song to be by The Shins to reference that movie, rather than Owl City? Garden State wasn't a staple of scene / emo culture, and she probably hasn't seen it. But given how similar her TikTok character and motivation is to a MPDG from the mid-late 2000s, she arrived at the exact same behavior.<br /><br />That goes to show that this isn't "just a LARP," that it's mainly a repetition of a phase in a cycle, so that each time a particular phase happens, it produces similar outcomes, without conscious or deliberate attempts to copy earlier incarnations of the current phase.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6157038466580269962020-10-06T08:00:29.395-04:002020-10-06T08:00:29.395-04:00tfw no down-but-not-out bf to rehabilitate #mpdgpr...tfw no down-but-not-out bf to rehabilitate #mpdgproblemsagnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com