I'm a 31 year old American expat living in Oslo, Norway, with my bulldog, Ada, and my husband, Johannes. My interests include interaction design, especially information architecture, philosophy of mind and ethics, cognitive psychology, sociobiology, feminism, yoga, fat acceptance, knitting, pottery, and cooking.Body Magic!
It’s hypnotic. Perhaps it’s only because I’ve been up for way more than 24 hours and feel like I’m on an acid trip anyway (really fucking hard to type!), but man does that video ever take me back. I was smack in the middle of that “Barbie Dance Party” demographic when I was a kid—I was this little girl:
And the kid on the left there?
That’s Matt Schoenefeld, the skater dude I had a crush on. Bleachy mullet, pegged jeans, pubey ’stache and all. And the girl dancing beside him was the girl I wanted to be.
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Yeah. You know, I was just talking to Johannes the other day about how I thought it was sad that we’re no longer “the target demographic”, but maybe it’s not such a bad thing after all. Being the target demographic was tacky and clichéd. It’s fun to watch it in a video, though, and the music’s still rad.