

Driving aimlessly during those early months of COVID lockdown, I’d sync my Android to Bluetooth and call up the Spotify ’90s playlist. As I approach middle age, my brain has started to shrivel into the pickled nostalgia that’s the birthright of every generation, and because I attended high school during the ’90s, I’ve relived fantasies of youth by continually playing the music that was popular then, even if I didn’t actually listen to that same music when I was growing up.
