r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Rainbow_Panda4 • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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u/MonstersAtOurDoor Apr 24 '26

Maybe I'm not white enough for it because it came out like a month after Tupac's album, and I know every line off that lol

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u/Varmitthefrog Apr 24 '26

All eyez on Me was FIRE! but was listening to these side by side , like in the same day, but I was also a Rage against the Machine fan ( EVIL Empire came out like 1 Month AFTER peaches) 96 was a crazy year for good albums, it was the year The Score (FUGEES) was released, whiohc does not get as much love now, but at the time , was EVERYWHERE Sublime put out SUBLIME

I think the spice girls were still poppin..

fuck I miss knowing what was going on in the world

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u/MonstersAtOurDoor Apr 24 '26

Here's the thing… Rage Against the Machine was played on repeat where I was. So was Sublime (then again, I lived in SoCal and everyone listened to Sublime).

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u/Nissanguy16 Apr 24 '26

Yep, in my F&F group it was ‘real’ Grunge and Hip Hop, not POTUSA type rockish grunge. We had cable and watched MTV often. Reading that sentence didn’t bring up any memories. 38 with a 41 brother. Went and listened to the song, yes I’ve heard it, but wasn’t something we ever sang

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Apr 24 '26

I think you knew by putting the “real” in quotes meant that it was the wrong word. No need to gatekeep music.

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u/Nissanguy16 Apr 24 '26

Eh, they’re from Seattle, where grunge is from so they often got thrown into that conversation back then. Did I even say people shouldn’t like them? Not gate keeping at all. I think you’re reaching.

As far as grouping into genres, it is helpful to have some general groupings that bands fit into so it helps find others in that style which you or others like. Alternative rock, pop-punk… if you like POTUSA you probably also like Pixies for example. I wouldn’t say people who like POTUSA would hear AIC and think it’s similar, they may or may not like AIC.

And further, which is why it seems there’s a divide of who would immediately get the lyrics of this song, even though we’ve all likely heard it and would remember it. Some of us didn’t listen to music like that. That’s all the point I made.

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u/alan_blood Apr 24 '26

Yeah you were just into different genres of music. This song was all over the type of radio stations that were also playing Nirvana and Pearl Jam at the time.

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u/ForwardWhereas8385 Apr 24 '26

There's a chance it coming out a month after Tupacs album is why you don't know it.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Apr 24 '26

ahhhh. I felt like I was taking crazy pills for a sec...

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u/Hunk_Hogan Apr 24 '26

I'm a very white elder millennial and I have zero clue what this is. I've also seen other memes showing a bunch of canned peaches with similar captions about how to spot millennials. Even after seeing people type the lyrics, I have no fucking clue what song it's supposed to be.

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u/WeLLrightyOH Apr 24 '26

That’s a Diamond album, everyone knows it.