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What’s With All the Early ’90s Alt-Rock T-Shirts in ‘Nope’?

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven in a fast-moving film like Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” there are some easter eggs you just can’t ignore — and one that has caught more than a few viewers’ eyes is the bizarre preponderance of characters wearing T-shirts featuring alt-rock bands from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.It starts with the character Angel (Brandon Perea) wearing a Wipers T-shirt — the legendary Portland band beloved by Kurt Cobain.

Then you see one with a Mr. Bungle logo — the oddball California group Faith No More singer Mike Patton was originally in, and which he pursued as a parallel career.

And by the time you see Emerald (Keke Palmer) prominently wearing a Jesus Lizard T-shirt (above) and O.J. (Daniel Kaluuya) wearing a Rage Against the Machine one — and then, for a brief moment, a Butthole Surfers T-shirt flashes by — it’s like, “OK, these aren’t your everyday Nirvana tees.

What the hell is with all these early ‘90s alt-rock T-shirts in this film?” On the surface, to quote a song by another band from the same general era, it makes no sense at all.

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