The shops are full of low-rise jeans and ballet pumps. My Chemical Romance have just done a stadium tour. And as if we needed any further evidence that 2026 is the new 2006, MySpace might be making a comeback.
Of course, every millennial’s favourite website never really went away. It simply faded into obscurity, along with the majority of the emo bands that you discovered there, superseded by Facebook and then by all the other platforms that sprung up in its wake. But now its current owners, Chris and Tim Vanderhook, have claimed that they are “going to relaunch MySpace”, the mid-Noughties social media giant that, for better or worse, allowed a generation of teenagers to start thinking about how they might be perceived on the internet – they’re “just waiting for the right time to do it”.
