We were excited about things like floppy disks. The ’90s was the last of the great decades, because after that, computers killed the world. Why do you think the ’90s has such strong appeal? The checkerboard Vans, that is from the ’90s. If you walk through the mall today, everyone is wearing items from the ’90s. It was, “Let’s enjoy life, let’s make friends.” We had Beavis and Butt-Head, we had block parties, we had fanny packs. The decade was so colorful with neon colors. On TikTok, where you are very active, you’ve gotten almost a million views on videos preaching to Gen Z-ers about why the ’90s were so much better than today. “But during the weekend I am the oldest teenager in town.”īelow, in an edited interview, he muses on the decade he loves - and that loved him back - and talks about his current comeback. “During the week I have to be a lousy adult, because I do construction, and not just for TV,” he said. And he is opening a brewery and pop-culture museum in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., where he lives.
Ads for the drink, which feature a boombox, gold chain and silver track suits, have started to appear online and elsewhere. In June he teamed up with Joyburst, an energy drink company in Toronto, on a new flavor: Vanilla Ice, naturally. He also performs at Collect-A-Con, a pop culture convention that draws tens of thousands, including a sizable number of Pokémon fans. This summer, he has been the headlining act in the “I Love the ’90s” national concert tour, which features other forgotten acts of that decade including Color Me Badd, Coolio and Tone Loc.
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Three decades after he hijacked teenage pop culture as a “white boy rapper” with a zigzag haircut and break-dancing moves - and an appearance in a Ninja Turtles movie - Vanilla Ice is making a run for relevancy again. “I feel like I am in constant Zumba classes with her every day because she’ll listen to, ‘You’ve got to move it, move it,’ and make me dance.” “She won’t let me sit down,” said Vanilla Ice, 54, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle. Then he had to pick up his 4-year-old daughter from school.
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He was in a car on his way to do voice-overs for a home makeover TV show, “ Vanilla Ice Home Show,” that is being shopped around. He began by explaining that he’s been super-busy. And after blowing off one interview altogether and showing up 15 minutes late to this one, Vanilla Ice finally got on the phone through his publicist. It was a Thursday morning, two weeks after he had performed at the Palladium Times Square in New York City. finally clears the air on sampling David Bowie & Queen on “Ice Ice Baby” pic.twitter.“I just want to go back to the ’90s,” said Vanilla Ice, the rapper. Here’s the clip of Vanilla’s interview down below. How do you feel about this? We see Vanilla’s original intentions to purchase the rights, however, it just doesn’t seem right that he owns it, and not the original creators. That means all royalties are paid to him every time it’s played on the radio, a TV show, movie, or really, anywhere. That’s right, so the sole owner of the legendary “Under Pressure” is Vanilla Ice.
The biggest controversy of “Ice Ice Baby,” was the fact that it lifted the bass line from Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 song “Under Pressure.” Queen and David Bowie’s camps both filed lawsuits against Vanilla Ice, seeing that the rapper did not pay any royalties to Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor or John Deacon, the original songwriters.īut a lawsuit was avoided, and recently, Vanilla Ice revealed how it was on The Dan Patrick Show. Apparently, instead of paying for a lawyer to fight the suit, or even paying the fine, Vanilla Ice opted to buy the song instead.
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