00:00I'm realizing now that three out of four of my recommends are from 1995.
00:07I don't know what it is about that year, but it gave me a lot.
00:11Hi, I'm Mitski, and this is my starter pack of cultural essentials.
00:18I think even though she's world famous with millions of fans, I still think she's underrated
00:25because, yes, she's the greatest singer in the world, but also she doesn't get enough
00:31credit for her songwriting.
00:32She's written amazing songs over many years consistently, and she's really innovated in
00:40recording music.
00:41And I don't know, I just think she's a genius, and people don't realize that she is a genius.
00:48Mariah Carey is one of my favorite artists.
00:51The album I'm going to recommend from her is Daydream, just because that was the very
00:56first album I ever bought, that I chose as a child to buy.
01:03And of course, I love all of her albums, but this one's really special to me because it
01:08was the first time I heard her voice.
01:10The first time I was like, this is what music could be?
01:13This is wild.
01:14So I'm a forever fan, and we should really respect her as a multifaceted artist.
01:23So this next show came out on the BBC in 1995.
01:28It's an adaptation of a book, which because of this show, I read by Jane Austen.
01:34And after this show, I read all of Jane Austen.
01:38And I can't recommend Jane Austen enough.
01:42She's like, she wrote hundreds of years ago, and yet I, as an adolescent reading Jane Austen,
01:50I was like, this feels like a really smart friend is gossiping to me, you know?
01:56So anyway, the show is 1995's Pride and Prejudice series on the BBC.
02:05Very formative experience for me.
02:07I still think I'm a millennial, but I still think that's the best adaptation of Pride and
02:13Prejudice.
02:14I know for younger generations, it's the movie with Keira Knightley.
02:18Personally, it'll always be the 1995 BBC series.
02:23I will never understand why you are in such a rage to approve of everything and everyone
02:27that you meet.
02:27Usually when I'm asked about what my favorite book is, I always say Haunting of Hill House
02:33by Shirley Jackson.
02:34But I think I've said that too much, and I want people to know I read more than one book.
02:40So this next one was published much more recently than Shirley Jackson.
02:46I believe it was published in 2020.
02:48It's another house book, Haunting of Hill House is obviously a house book.
02:55But Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is also a house book.
03:00So after I read it, I recommended it to everyone I could think of.
03:04And everyone who did read it got back to me with a completely different reactions to the
03:11ending.
03:11And I think that's such an interesting barometer of how people see life and see the world because
03:18I thought the ending was the most beautiful, uplifting thing.
03:23And then another friend said, that was so sad.
03:26So I highly recommend to see what you think about the ending.
03:31The movie that's really meaningful to me also came out in 1995.
03:37This is considered a kid's movie, but I think you can watch it as an adult and you'll still
03:45be hit by it.
03:46You'll still cry about it.
03:47And I actually watched it quite recently as an adult.
03:51And the one thing I will say that's negative, but of its time, is that I didn't remember
03:57that all the animals have like CGI moving mouths.
04:00That was really distracting, unfortunately.
04:05But that was just the technology of its time.
04:07The movie is Babe.
04:10Ugh.
04:11It's just a perfect movie, a perfect narrative.
04:15I think the great thing about a lot of like kids' movies and TV from the time is that
04:20you could understand it and follow it and love it as a kid, but you could be an adult
04:25and watch it and get so much out of it.
04:28I feel like there are so many lessons from that movie that are still important to me today.
04:34There's a lot of like hard stuff actually, like kind of like hidden in there, enough so
04:41that like kids get a sense of it, but also you don't have to understand it yet.
04:45And when you watch it as an adult, it's like, this still feels important and relevant.
04:50It's like a weird thing.
04:51That's not just that you want to spend a lot of time seeing it right here.
04:52I'm not going to lose a lot of time seeing it that I can be a good thing.
04:52Look, this is because it's a good thing to try and know it.
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