NEWS 2019/09/07
Ah, 2002. Life was so different then. There was no Twitter, no Facebook, no YouTube, no Instagram, no Snapchat. There hadn’t even been MySpace yet. The internet was glacial, phones only did three things and lots of people who are now adults were babies. Plus, a bunch of people who aren’t alive anymore, were! Madness. And this video, Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous by Good Charlotte, was on telly at least 60 times a day. Shall we… Shall we have a bit of a dive into it and see what we find? Let’s go! 0.01 We begin with footage emulating news shot from a helicopter, the kind of thing that filled endless episodes of Cops in the 1990s. 0.06 Here is frontman Joel Madden, one of the rock world’s most successful twins. 0.08 And here’s his identical twin brother Benji. As...