It always starts with an innocent YouTube search. Maybe you had "No Scrubs" stuck in your head, you decided to stream the video, and before you knew it, you got sucked into a time-warp rabbit hole. Hours passed as you clicked on throwback videos from '90s MTV, jumping from Mandy Moore's "Candy" to basically all of Missy Elliott's catalog. Sure, the songs are classics (and we still know every word to "Work It" — anyone up for a karaoke battle?), but part of the appeal of these music videos is their unforgettable fashion. From Britney Spears' schoolgirl look in "Baby One More Time" to Gwen Stefani's pinup-rock vibes in "Don't Speak," there are certainly moments when the costuming becomes (dare we say?) even more iconic than the songs themselves.
To celebrate the videos that are still giving us life today, we're serving up the ultimate fashion quiz: Which throwback music-video style inspires you the most? Swipe Rad or Bad below to find out, and don't be surprised if you're digging out your stick-on crystals by the end of it.
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