All I was asking was what generation claims the Spice Girls and nothing about who is part of what generation. :D

I'm not in for another generation cutoff debate.


I don't even buy the mainstream concept of generations, due to arbitrary cutoff dates (not to mention cusps). I'll leave it at that since there's no need to kick a dead horse.

Spice Girls is a hybrid of late Gen X and early Gen Y/Millennial. It's weird because Spice Girls started in the mid 90's in the UK but got popular in the late 90's overseas and in the U.S.

I'm not a big expert on the group or their songs, but if we're talking about teen pop music groups, the Spice Girls were already big well before Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC apparently, which are all music groups I consider to be Gen Y/Millennial only.

The whole Y2K teen pop craze was a MILLENNIAL thing period.

Spice Girls is a hybrid of late Gen X and early Gen Y/Millennial. It's weird because Spice Girls started in the mid 90's in the UK but got popular in the late 90's overseas and in the U.S.

I'm not a big expert on the group or their songs, but if we're talking about teen pop music groups, the Spice Girls were already big well before Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC apparently, which are all music groups I consider to be Gen Y/Millennial only.

The whole Y2K teen pop craze was a MILLENNIAL thing period.
Backstreet boys also started in the mid-90s, but NSYNC and Britiney are pure Y artist for sure.

Backstreet boys also started in the mid-90s, but NSYNC and Britiney are pure Y artist for sure.


In other countries they did, But USA did not get Backstreet boys until The Nutty Professor album dropped in 96,
even then no one knew who they were nor cared, it wasn't until June 1997 they popped off in the USA with
Quit Playing Games (with My Heart).

I was in elementary school when the "Wannabe" was popular.  I've always looked back on them as the very beginning of the Y2K teen pop wave.  They were kind of the "Carly Rae Jepsen" of that teen pop era.

Both.  :D

I was in elementary school when the "Wannabe" was popular.  I've always looked back on them as the very beginning of the Y2K teen pop wave.  They were kind of the "Carly Rae Jepsen" of that teen pop era.
Same as soon as that song hit y2k era started

XY: 1977-1983

Pure Y: 1984-1994

YZ: 1995-2001

I was in elementary school when the "Wannabe" was popular.  I've always looked back on them as the very beginning of the Y2K teen pop wave.  They were kind of the "Carly Rae Jepsen" of that teen pop era.

I was in first grade when the Spice Girls became popular in the U.S in Early 1997.

I honestly think that 1999 was the only year of the 1990s that actually leaned more towards millennials, 1998 had far too much mature music/Adult Contemporary, Ballad music and slow R&B to lean towards Millennials at the time. The music trends were the exact same as 1997, it wasn't until like November 1998 when music started to shift again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1998

Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) was a fan in ‘97, too:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/tdna135200

It’s all coming back to me, now. My friend’s younger sister used to beg him for change all of the time in the summer of ‘97 to get some Spice Girls fantasy ball gum lollipops from the ‘Mr. Softee’ ice cream truck. There were 24 stickers to collect from those lollipop wrappers, IIRC.

I guess I will have to change the response I made earlier. ‘97 and ‘98 were good years in music for late Yers the same way ‘88 and ‘89 were for late Gen Xers.


XY: 1977-1983

Pure Y: 1984-1994

YZ: 1995-2001



I hope my cousin doesn’t see this. While my cousin is a Millennial (early Millennial), he prefers not to be grouped with late Millennials.

I honestly think that 1999 was the only year of the 1990s that actually leaned more towards millennials, 1998 had far too much mature music/Adult Contemporary, Ballad music and slow R&B to lean towards Millennials at the time. The music trends were the exact same as 1997, it wasn't until like November 1998 when music started to shift again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1998


I'm going to guess this:

1990-1996: X
1997-1998: The transition years between X stuff and Y stuff
1999: Y

The only real iffy year is 1980; you'd see them get labeled as both Gen Xers and Millennials. However, they are most likely viewed as the former rather than the latter.

Most people and sources seem to agree though that 1977-1979 is X and that 1981-1983 is Y.

Anybody born in 1980 on here? We can ask them.

And I contradicted myself like an idiot, yet again.

I'm going to guess this:

1990-1996: X
1997-1998: The transition years between X stuff and Y stuff
1999: Y


Michael Bolton though would be Boomer, and even stuff like Mariah Carey and Celine Dion was more "family music" aimed at Millenial kids and their parents, and was too humdrum for Gen Xers unless if it was their first dance song at a wedding. Aerosmith's "Crazy" also had a lot of Boomers enjoying them, as was Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel's 1993 comeback albums. Even my boomer mom liked Shania Twain. Some Xers like certain 2010s things (like The Goldbergs and documentaries on their favorite '80s/early '90s band) the same way that some Boomers like certain '90s things (like '70s retro films like The Brady Bunch Movie and Boogie Nights, as well as what the classic hit stations played at the time, and with things like the Swing Revival, even the grandparents of some kids who listened to it also digged it). Your mini-chart just focuses on what generation the TEENS at the time (specifically, the senior class in high school) were a part of and not the entire demographic picture. Another name for that "transition" would be Xennial. And NOT all music/films/shows are targeted at teenagers!