Ten years too late: how do you party like its 1999?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Was this just one big fat drug reference or is media hype?

I sure missed out on this one

2

It’s a reference to Prince’s 1999- “two thousand zero zero party over, oops, out of time- so tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999”, presumably meaning with abandon and little thought to the aftermath, because we’ll all be dead anyway.

3

It also can refer to the end of the millenium. People would be partying extra hard on New Years Eve Dec 31, 1999.

4

No “presumably” about it, IMO; the lyrics specifically talk about partying in the face of an imminent apocalypse.

5

1999 was such a long way off, back in 1982.

Great, now I feel old.

6

I partied about as hard as I ever do that night; which is, not very. I’m a nerd.

7

I stayed up late that night and had a bowl of chicken soup. It was very good chicken soup.