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It's All Gone Pete Tong is a 2004 British-Canadian [2] mockumentary-drama film [3] about a DJ who goes completely deaf.The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong who cameos in the film.
The phrase "It's all gone Pete Tong", where the name is used as rhyming slang for "it's all gone wrong", was reputedly coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987 in an article about acid house called "Bermondsey Goes Balearic" for Terry Farley and Pete Heller's Boys Own fanzine.
Slang used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z; generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world) differs from slang of earlier generations; [1] [2] ease of communication via Internet social media has facilitated its rapid proliferation, creating "an unprecedented variety of linguistic variation". [2] [3] [4]
“No worries. It’s all Gucci.” 14. Hits different “This list just HITS DIFFERENT. The way this phrase has been all over New York. I’m sorry our city just creates the best slang around ...
While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...
“One day you’re swimming in the pool and the next day it’s all gone,” Woods said as tears came to his eyes. “She came out with her little Yeti piggy bank, for us to rebuild our house ...
"It's All Gone" is a song by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea that was released in 1986 as the lead single from his eighth studio album On the Beach. It was written by Rea, and produced by Rea and David Richards. [2] "It's All Gone" reached No. 69 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the Top 100 for four weeks. [3]
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."