“Clueless looks at teenage life through a lens of fantastical privilege, and it starts with Cher browsing her wardrobe on a touch-screen. Now it looks dated, but at the time, it was absurdly unreal … Imagine something too fabulous to exist, and Bowie’s the only possible soundtrack. ‘Fashion’ sounded like the coolest of the cool songs in a really cool movie when I was 11. It would never have occurred to me that it pre-dated the film, that the song was the same age as Cher.” – 10 David Bowie Songs That Made Films Better (Consequence of Sound)
“Teen movies benefited from the era’s appetite for smartness and enjoyed a boom period of the kind not seen since Judd Nelson punched the air in The Breakfast Club. High-school films excavated literary classics, rather than just older high-school films, for their plots. Famously, Clueless is based on Jane Austen’s Emma, and anyone who saw Gwyneth Paltrow in the faithful 1996 adaptation will know that Amy Heckerling’s 1995 smash, starring Alicia Silverstone, did a far better job of telling the story.”