There’s a deep nihilism to “partying like it’s 1999.” Is the world ending? Maybe, so let’s party until it does.

Imagine 400,000 people crowded onto the grounds of an airforce base. It’s summer and the high peaks above 100 degrees. It’s a hot wasteland of bodies and debris as far as the eye can see. Everyone is drunk, overheated, and sunburned. Scores of people are sent to the hospital. And then the fires start. 

This is Woodstock ‘99, otherwise known as the Day the Nineties died. 

1999 FOREVER’S theme song is “In the Freezer” by Sophie Strauss

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SOURCES

• Jamie Crawford, “Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99,”  2022. 
• Vera Papisova, “Sexual Harassment was Rampant at Coachella,” Teen Vogue, 2018. 
• Garret Price, “Woodstock ‘99: Peace, Love, and Rage,” 2021.
• “Our Live Report from Woodstock ‘99,” SPIN, 1999.