# Nellyville

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nellyville/153327>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 6, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nellyville/153327 "2003-02-06T22:33:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nellyville/153327/1 "2003-02-06T22:33:01Z")

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Help me out here.

The whole Nellyville thing as featured in the videos of the hiphop performer Nelly.

Is this some kind of imaginative creation? Or is there a really whole raft of young, adult, male Americans who dress like overgrown toddlers wearing their older brother’s brand-name festooned sports kit?

And do the women in these video’s (who seem to dress like grown-ups) **really** find men whose dress sense obviously arrested at eight years old attractive?

Or is this just a sign that I have truly lost touch and become an old fogey?