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How Jax’s Hit “90s Kids” Was Actually Inspired By The Present Day · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Jack's, who finished the
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  Speaker 1: third on Season fourteen of American Idol, has penned an
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  Speaker 1: incredible nostalgic ode to growing up in the nineties, a
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  Speaker 1: rising song aptly called Nineties Kids, which is jam packed
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  Speaker 1: with references and winks only her fellow nineties kids will
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  Speaker 1: truly understand. But it actually wasn't the nineties that initially
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  Speaker 1: inspired Jack's to write it. In fact, it was a
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  Speaker 1: very present day problem that pushed her down that creative road.
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  Speaker 1: When I wrote the song, I was in a place
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  Speaker 1: where I was starting to feel like social media was
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  Speaker 1: just running my life. So I wanted to throw it
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  Speaker 1: back to a simpler time where all that mattered to
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  Speaker 1: me was keeping my Tomagotchi alive, Britney spears, and my
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  Speaker 1: easy bake oven. So I wrote a song to represent
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  Speaker 1: all the nineties babies. She certainly pulled it off. Nineties
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  Speaker 1: Kids is out and now and the video is up
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