1999 Detroit Radio Cassette "Mixtape"

Part of a series in digitizing my analog media.

It’s 1999. Bill Clinton is president, everyone thinks the world is going to end because of the Y2K bug, Korn’s Freak On A Leash has been #1 on TRL for weeks. You’re stuck in your room because your sister is using the phone and you can’t get on AOL until she’s done.

You can’t go anywhere because you’re 12. So you pretend to be a radio DJ to pass the time using an old boombox, hoping that someday you’ll escape that room and understand what the people on the radio are singing about.

Then your mom busts in with sliced fruit and yells at you to clean your room.