90s and 2000s was the edgiest time period in entertainment?

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You had really violent and explicit rap music and metal. Comedians were not shy about offending anyone, and always pushed the envelope by making jokes about everything from racist jokes, gay jokes, rape, even :eek::eek::eek::eek:philia. Stuff like South Park and jackass was popular. Women were maybe less comfortable being slutty but I feel like music videos and movies actually sold sex and tried to capitalize more off women's bodies compared to the music and movie industry today. We might have reached peak levels of edginess in those decades. It's no wonder society became overly sensitive in the 2010s. It's overcompensating for the decades prior
 
Pliny Pete said:
Women were less comfortable being slutty in the 90's?
I musta missed that
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Or you're missing what's in front of you right now. Social media and only fans changed the game. As far as prominent women, a list celebrities and such who was the most openly slutty woman back then Madonna? She's arguably even more slutty now even though she's in her 60s and you have really popular women like cardi b, Miley Cyrus and every other female rapper. Actual male musicians however including rappers don't seems to put as many half naked women in their videos anymore, and movies I would say the same, at least it's how it seems to me
 
ColemanwastheGOAT said:
Rap music nowadays is just as explicitly violent today as it was then, it's just harder to understand the lyrics because they all mumble and shit.
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Maybe drill but drill rap is not popular like gangsta rap was in the 90s and early 2000s. Most of the rap nowadays is just dudes talking about being ballers, drugs, female rappers rapping about being superthots, men being worthless shit like that
 
GolovKing said:
Or you're missing what's in front of you right now. Social media and only fans changed the game. As far as prominent women, a list celebrities and such who was the most openly slutty woman back then Madonna? She's arguably even more slutty now even though she's in her 60s and you have really popular women like cardi b, Miley Cyrus and every other female rapper. Actual male musicians however including rappers don't seems to put as many half naked women in their videos anymore, and movies I would say the same, at least it's how it seems to me
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I was surrounded by sluts in the 90's, raves and clubs were literal nonstop fuck fests with naked whores as far as the eye can see, trust me, all that shit you see on your fancy pants computer screen now days was going on back then too

Only difference is I wasnt a broken down old man and could actually enjoy some of it back then, ugh
 
GolovKing said:
You had really violent and explicit rap music and metal. Comedians were not shy about offending anyone, and always pushed the envelope by making jokes about everything from racist jokes, gay jokes, rape, even :eek::eek::eek::eek:philia. Stuff like South Park and jackass was popular. Women were maybe less comfortable being slutty but I feel like music videos and movies actually sold sex and tried to capitalize more off women's bodies compared to the music and movie industry today. We might have reached peak levels of edginess in those decades. It's no wonder society became overly sensitive in the 2010s. It's overcompensating for the decades prior
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LOL. If you think that was “edgy”, you would have been blown away by the 70s and 80s.
 
GolovKing said:
70s and 80s were way more family friendly in terms of stuff that was on your tv screen and the music that was being played, cmon man
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Watch some old SNL skits. Richard Pryor in particular.

Watch some old stand up comedy acts. Lots of them. Eddie Murphy Raw was a fun one.

Watch some old horror movies. Titties everywhere.
 
90's wasn't edgy. Its just today is filled with a lot of pussy ass snowflakes.
 
I don't know if there's much real difference. Certainly some things are very different (as with all era comparison). I kinda feel bad for todays young though, I remember when it wasn't that easy to see some porn or some sex stuff, it made it funner when you did. Now, it's like, you eat all the chocolate you want, pretty soon you're not gonna want chocolate. In the good old days, I used to see Playgirl magazines in bookstores left in places where they didn't belong, I knew how they got there. Some horny assed woman wanted to see some dick and snuck into a part of the store she could see all she wanted and then leave it amongst a pile of books. Now? there's no real mystery at all. Everyone can see pretty much everything online, including kids because they all have the same phones we do. So, in those ways, it's much easier to access stuff but in our entertainment? Again, I don't really know. A lot of what we see is just marketing that doesn't really reflect people's real lives but I guess there was plenty of sex in movies of the 70's on up, and plenty of bodies being shown on tv ever since the bikini was invented.

It's always been paradoxical in the US though, Janet Jackson really took a lot of heat for showing her titties on TV, and many, many celebs have had their careers ruined or been shamed by some scandal or some sex tape. Today, a sex tape would almost be normal, it wasn't in the past. America is a strange country, full of paradoxes and it's never, ever shaken the old Quakerism that it came from.
 
IDGETKTFO said:
90's wasn't edgy. Its just today is filled with a lot of pussy ass snowflakes.
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Also, comedians and entertainment always dealt with pushback, even then. eddie Murphy was hounded by the gay community for his standup, Sam Kinison was too, even though, Ironically, both seemed to have some homosexual tendencies themselves. Prince was picketed in the 80's for his sexual stuff. I guess Prince and Madonna really pushed the envelope in the 80's, but really, even in the seventies, guys like Alice Cooper had sick songs like cold ethyl about necrophilia. Also, look at pee wee herman, ruined because he was beating his meat in a porn theater in the early 90's, again, our weird paradoxical nature.
 
90s was probably the start of the decline of edginess. 2000s was already a lost cause and lame
 
mjmj said:
LOL. If you think that was “edgy”, you would have been blown away by the 70s and 80s.
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You have a point. People protested Kiss in the 70s for fucks sake. People threw up in the theater and walked out on the Exorcist.
 
TeTe said:
You have a point. People protested Kiss in the 70s for fucks sake. People threw up in the theater and walked out on the Exorcist.
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the way I remember it at the time, people actually had heart attacks and die during the excorcist.
 
mozfonky said:
Also, comedians and entertainment always dealt with pushback, even then. eddie Murphy was hounded by the gay community for his standup, Sam Kinison was too, even though, Ironically, both seemed to have some homosexual tendencies themselves. Prince was picketed in the 80's for his sexual stuff. I guess Prince and Madonna really pushed the envelope in the 80's, but really, even in the seventies, guys like Alice Cooper had sick songs like cold ethyl about necrophilia. Also, look at pee wee herman, ruined because he was beating his meat in a porn theater in the early 90's, again, our weird paradoxical nature.
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It’s our Puritanical nature. That’s how much influence the Puritans of the past still have on modern day America. Violence is fine for kids on tv. But if they see a nipple, they’re being groomed.
 
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