Mystery solved. It started “in the ladies room.”
After a period of popularity, the word "basic" (as a pejorative term) appears to be declining in usage. Which is good — seems it was confusing many of you.
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The thing is, though, "basic" is trendy, but it isn't new. People have been calling bitches "basic" for the past 20 years.
Well, almost 20.
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Allow me to prove it, via this music video released way back in 1985.
You see, the '80s were an age of edgy all-female groups, like Vanity 6 and The Mary Jane Girls.
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One day, this six-piece pop/R&B group of funky divas by the name Klymaxx ran into an issue.
As the story goes, one of them heard that her man was up in the club, and that women there had their hands all over him.
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