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My Favourite Soundtrack: Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

This soundtrack is just a really good time. Because why not? There are enough Platoons and Titanics in the world.
Emma Garland
London, GB

In 1995, there was Clueless; the high school, high fashion take on Jane Austen’s 1815 novel ‘Emma’, set in a social climate where plaid is essential and even gym class is colour co-ordinated. Then, two years later, there was Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, which is set in a social climate where any pattern goes as long as the outfit is made of PVC, trimmed with fluff and the overall look screams 80s porno set in space.

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Featuring Lisa Kurdow and that one with the really deep voice, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is basically the tale of what would happen to Cher Horowitz and Donnie Davenport in their late twenties if they were both unsuccessful, broke and white. The narrative is your basic “two misfits, invited to their ten-year reunion, reflect on their current lives and how they were in high school” story. Set in the late-90s with flashbacks to their teenage years in the 80s, the soundtrack pulls from the best of both decades and is just as amazingly fun and cheesy as the plot.