Perfect.

Although my wife and I have been humming the hook for the last hour now...
posted by kuanes at 4:53 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

World's largest mouse pointer.
posted by wakannai at 5:39 PM on January 15, 2016

MeTa. ;-)
posted by eriko at 6:06 PM on January 15, 2016

Rashida Jones just continues to impress me. Hard to not see Ann Perkins but still.
posted by pipoquinha at 6:08 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh this is the BEST!
posted by wuwei at 6:13 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh God is it time for the nineties to be cool?

It's ok. It's ok. I built a bunker specifically for this purpose.
posted by selfnoise at 6:25 PM on January 15, 2016 [17 favorites]

Also it's when the video uses the rush footage/tape filter that it really works. Because nothing in the nineties had the kind of contrast and black levels that the rest of the video does.
posted by selfnoise at 6:29 PM on January 15, 2016 [3 favorites]

This is kinda odd. It's just a very sincere song about missing the...90s? I guess. Not a parody in any way. I mean as a sort of homage it is pretty banging. I was kinda hoping it was a tie in for that hilarously stupid new show she's on. I was also kinda hoping for a cameo by Tony Toni Toné. But the choreography was dope at least. And poppin fresh. So, word to your mother, I spose.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:42 PM on January 15, 2016 [4 favorites]

Remember back in the 90s when TLC was The Learning Channel and aired all night marathons of Beakman's World?
posted by RonButNotStupid at 6:48 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

I am exactly the target audience for this video and enjoyed it very much
posted by dinty_moore at 7:00 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is Carson Daly 90s. My 90s was baggie jeans, Rusty pullovers, Simple shoes, hacky sacks, and awful Mexican brown weed, and chain wallets.
posted by Brocktoon at 7:01 PM on January 15, 2016 [8 favorites]

Wait a second, is Dupri wearing a Black Mafia Family baseball hat?
posted by Maaik at 7:07 PM on January 15, 2016

I went into this expecting a Portlandia style parody, so I was disappointed. And, while I'm not sure if it captures the sound of the 1990s, it does capture the visuals.
posted by Mezentian at 7:36 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is kinda odd. It's just a very sincere song about missing the...90s? I guess. Not a parody in any way. I mean as a sort of homage it is pretty banging.

Yeah, I actually really liked that it wasn't at all ironic or a parody. It was sort of odd but sweet! Just a song about the 90s and a video featuring lots of great 90s costumes and makeup (dark purplish lipstick!) and dance moves.
posted by aka burlap at 7:43 PM on January 15, 2016 [4 favorites]

Oh, Rashida, you beautiful, nostalgic, talented songbird!

But seriously, I was transported back to high school. I lost it at the jerseys with the hot pants and knee pads. So pitch perfect, the entire thing. Now I'm hella missing TLC.
posted by smirkette at 7:47 PM on January 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

90s R&B has aged so incredibly well. I like it now more than I ever did back then! I really missed out while that was all going on. Like sure, I watched the hell out of MTV Jams like every other teen, but it never clicked how fucking awesome it all was until the period was well over.
posted by naju at 7:58 PM on January 15, 2016 [10 favorites]

There's a bittersweetness wistfulness here that I really like, and whomever put that vintage hip-hop beat together really did their homework.
posted by tantrumthecat at 8:26 PM on January 15, 2016

The Nineties were my lawn. Get off of it.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:29 PM on January 15, 2016

It's Pitchfork, but Top 50 videos of the 90s is not terrible
posted by meehawl at 8:37 PM on January 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

My middle school daughters had "90s day" at school two weeks ago. It was a bizarre to realize that the 90s has become fodder for joke nostalgia. Most of the kids went as early 90s grunge. Too bad this video wasn't out then.
posted by TheShadowKnows at 8:40 PM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Look, if one thing from the 90s we can hold up and go "actually this was pretty great" it was 90s R&B so I'm happy there's been a upswell in it over the last few years
posted by The Whelk at 11:44 PM on January 15, 2016 [6 favorites]

One thing I never quite got was all the 90s hate. And a lot of the 80s hate. Both decades, as far as music goes, really hit their stride in the middle of the decades, and by the last year or so were falling into horrible abysses. The excesses of the 70s generally took until around 1983 to be shaken off. When alternative/college rock got so mainstreamed that Silverchair and Limp Bizkit were ascendant, the shine had mostly worn off of the 90s.
posted by chimaera at 11:50 PM on January 15, 2016

Eh? Silverchair were great, and got even better. What the hell?
posted by Brocktoon at 1:38 AM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

I don't get it, the nineties was all a swing-revival aesthetic and electronica.
posted by oddman at 6:52 AM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

swing-revival aesthetic and electronica. was the late 90s.
Guru Josh and shit was the early 90s.
posted by Mezentian at 7:12 AM on January 16, 2016

This particular 90s aesthetic is alive and well in the affluent high school in which I librarian and it is a goddamn delight. Just like this video.
posted by Pardon Our Dust at 7:18 AM on January 16, 2016 [3 favorites]

No no, the early nineties was Nirvana and The Soup Dragons.
posted by oddman at 7:39 AM on January 16, 2016

I'm just sorry that she didn't wear any of the outfits from her appearance in Sassy in '92.
posted by corey flood at 7:56 AM on January 16, 2016 [3 favorites]

If you want to take me back to the 90s, you're going to have to sound a bit more like At the Gates.
posted by Wolfdog at 8:27 AM on January 16, 2016

She truly is an amazing, talented, beautiful unicorn WAS THAT A COKE DEAL?
posted by maxsparber at 9:01 AM on January 16, 2016

Yeah, but that's not the part of the 90's I want to flip and rewind back to.
posted by Nanukthedog at 12:54 PM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

Did this strike anyone else as more like the very late 80's? *googles* Wait, Bell Biv DeVoe's album Poison didn't even come out until 1990? Huh, okay! ("...Now you know.")
posted by salvia at 2:07 PM on January 16, 2016

I think we can all agree there was a right '90s, a wrong '90s and a worst '90s.
We're just never going to agree on where this sits.
posted by Mezentian at 3:03 PM on January 16, 2016

Nu Metal

Nu Metal was the worst thing
posted by The Whelk at 3:13 PM on January 16, 2016 [4 favorites]

yes, you know, as a matter of fact, let's go back to 1995 for three minutes or so.
posted by Wolfdog at 4:23 PM on January 16, 2016

I think, if we want to remember the horrors (or, if there are different opinions, highlights) of 1995 then this song is more appropriate to this thread, or this thing here, both of which won R&B awards that year.

But, this is the real horror (the wiki on Nu Metal is surprisingly detailed).
posted by Mezentian at 5:08 PM on January 16, 2016

Everyone has a different 90s.

The Early

The Mid

The Late
posted by meehawl at 6:01 PM on January 16, 2016

Everyone has a different 90s.

Yes, in yours Leftfield had more than one song and KLF made it to 2000.

Which, for me, is practically an alternative timeline.

I mean, OMG, that Altern-8 video is all of my repressed memories of acid house compressed into four minutes of vapourub-filled-mask horror.

Incidentally, on the topic, "Rashida Jones channels TLC, SWV, and MJB"

TLC I remember, and I can guess MJB is Mary Jane Blige, because I recall her being popular (did she sing about masturbation a lot?), but I am blanking on SWV. Help me out here, Metafilter.
posted by Mezentian at 7:47 PM on January 16, 2016

Sisters With Voices.
posted by Talez at 8:11 PM on January 16, 2016

Is it wrong to say I want to meet Rashida just to tell her how completely fucking awesome a person she is and that if I could emulate anyone in the world it would be her.
posted by Talez at 8:48 PM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sisters With Voices.

Maybe they were big in America, but... *blank look*. No recognition at all, and they seem to have had a reality show. Thanks anyway.

Is it wrong to say I want to meet Rashida just to tell her how completely fucking awesome a person she is and that if I could emulate anyone in the world it would be her.

Wrong? No! Whatever it did, Parks and Rec seems to have shone a light on a flotilla of awesome.
That casting director needs to be awarded.
posted by Mezentian at 10:39 PM on January 16, 2016

SWV -- Weak

This was really big in my circles in the late '90s.
posted by wuwei at 11:21 PM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

I love how they had that lyric about "four-thirty past fine," so much like TLC sang about "the twenty-third of loneliness" on Creep. The hallway shots were taken from TLC's "Baby Baby Baby," IIRC.
posted by jonp72 at 3:27 PM on January 17, 2016