GQ’s 1995 ‘overrated’ pop culture list roasted 3 decades later: ‘Wow, this really aged poorly’
That’s so 1995!
A resurfaced GQ magazine list from the ’90s deeming “overrated” popular trends and people has been roasted and gone viral on Reddit.
People are expressing their shock at who, what and where had their moment and were deemed unworthy of praise by the magazine.
The “1995 Overrated List” was described as a list of the “81 people, places and things utterly unworthy of the praise and respect they’d received.”
“There’s still a lot of mediocrity and outright crap out there that’s getting a free ride … But not here,” the team at GQ insisted.
The list was comprised of many celebrities, places and more that are either still relevant (Righteousness about Ticketmaster), random and harmless (lattes) or now patently offensive (Demi Moore’s body), which many people agreed did not deserve the criticism.
“Wow, this really aged poorly,” a Redditor summed up the rundown in the comments, while another simply labeled it “silly.”
One naysayer offered, “They lost me at white power ranger,” while another geek was actually thrilled “that Alan Greenspan and CNBC made the list.”
Meanwhile, another reader suspected that the rundown was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, saying: “This article is a joke. It’s not meant to be serious.”
Scroll down to see the full list from three decades ago.
GQ’s ‘The 1995 Overrated List’:
- Bjork
- Alan Greenspan
- Christo
- Righteousness about Ticketmaster
- Vine-ripened tomatoes
- Rain forests
- Pitt the Younger
- Homespun American wisdom
- Lattes
- Pat Riley
- The white Power Ranger
- Shaved heads
- Violent action movies from Hong Kong
- Martin Lawrence
- Melissa Etheridge
- Converting to Islam in jail
- Lisa Maris Presley’s looks
- Beaujolais Nouveau
- Gender ambiguity
- The prefix cyber
- Poetry slams
- Bill Gates’ electrofitted bunker home
- ‘Absolutely Fabulous’
- Raconteur cabbies
- Being the host city of the Olympic Games
- Martin Amis
- Alumni of The Harvard Lampoon
- Upscale taquerias
- The ‘genius’ of Brian Wilson
- Fiestaware
- Local color
- Wood-burning pizza ovens
- Field trips to see Peter and the Wolf
- Anything called a ‘summerfest’
- Agassi vs. Sampras
- CNBC talk shows
- The prefix cyber-
- ‘Town meeting’-style interfaces with elected officials
- Pliny the Elder
- Montana-based writers
- Designer lesbianism
- Designer Buddhism
- The large intestine
- Driving a 4X4 on gravel
- Amusement parks
- Corinthian leather
- Longevity
- Gay stand-up comedy
- Morphing
- Mangoes
- Appearing at a public function unwashed and on the arm of Juliette Lewis
- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
- Every Broadway musical since Evita
- Digitized family albums
- Cruise control
- Middle-relief pitching
- Heather Locklear’s galvanizing effect on ‘Melrose Place’
- Duets
- Anyone dubbed ‘the Sexiest Man Alive’
- Striped bass
- Quick-cutting
- Zines
- Jennifer Jason Leigh’s range
- Virtual reality
- Heavily choreographed concerts at which the featured performer wears a headset microphone and is backed by 35 dancers
- Sex on the beach
- Sex that lasts four hours
- Rowing crew
- Michael Graves
- Youthful world-weariness
- Reggie Miller
- Telling it like it is
- Dessert wines
- Whit Stillman
- Any British woman described as a beauty
- The Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feisty backbenchers
- Homeschooling
- 1968
- The signed editorials in The New York Times
- Demi Moore’s body
- Jay Leno’s comeback
- Manufacturer rebates
- Hootie & the Blowfish
- All-you-can-eat shrimp
- Comic books
- The smell of fresh-cut grass
- Instantaneous Wall Street jokes about national tragedies
- Having a ‘funny’ back page
