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re: Why does 80s pop culture still have such resonance?
Posted on 3/23/18 at 1:04 pm to Jack Ruby
Posted on 3/23/18 at 1:04 pm to Jack Ruby
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So what changed?
In the late 90's there was a 70's resurgence. Shite, girls were wearing bell-bottoms to be different/cool. The music and movies of the 70's was in.
There was such a backlash in the 90's to the 80's that after the 70's revival, the 80's had a revival and people in 2000's were wearing 80's sunglasses, loud colors, listening to the music and watching the movies - and I'm not talking about just old nostalgic folks but young kids.
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Posted on 3/23/18 at 1:10 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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In the late 90's there was a 70's resurgence. Shite, girls were wearing bell-bottoms to be different/cool. The music and movies of the 70's was in.
In college or high school? I do not remember this in High School. Looking back at post-grunge 90s....the late 90s were almost "cultureless." The late 90s-early 00's/beginning of the real internet boom, was just an amalgamation of culture, with little real identity. This did produce a lot of good movies and music, but in terms of things like fashion and what it felt like....it was weird. We had left grunge behind, rap and hip-hop were on the cusp of becoming the dominant force in music, boy bands were nearing their end, the 80s were seen as cheesy, the early 90s and too serious and everyone was gearing up for technology.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 1:11 pm to Jack Ruby
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Why does 80s pop culture still have such resonance?
Because it was way awesome
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:02 pm to Freauxzen
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In college or high school? I do not remember this in High School. Looking back at post-grunge 90s....the late 90s were almost "cultureless." The late 90s-early 00's/beginning of the real internet boom, was just an amalgamation of culture, with little real identity. This did produce a lot of good movies and music, but in terms of things like fashion and what it felt like....it was weird. We had left grunge behind, rap and hip-hop were on the cusp of becoming the dominant force in music, boy bands were nearing their end, the 80s were seen as cheesy, the early 90s and too serious and everyone was gearing up for technology.
Agree.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:08 pm to Jack Ruby
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It's a joke because in 1993 when the movie came out that decade was still a huge punchline... So what changed?
People who were kids in the 80s grew up.
Pretty simple.
Notice how all the people 30 and up call the current decade a joke w/trash music, style, and entertainment?
Same thing will happen when today's young people get older too. Suddenly the early 2000s - the 20teens will be awesome.
The 90s nostalgia is about to really start ramping up so get ready for all of that to be cool again too.
This post was edited on 3/23/18 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:17 pm to Jack Ruby
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It's bizarre, but it was probably also the greatest time ever to be a kid.
while ironically being the literal most dangerous time to live in America
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:25 pm to SlowFlowPro
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while ironically being the literal most dangerous time to live in America
I'll go through living through the Cold War again instead of getting sent to the Civil War... smallpox, yellow fever, polio epidemics... If I was black or a Native American I could trump my own statement a thousand times over.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:27 pm to Dr RC
Kids in the 80s are now the ones making movies and tv shows so they're nostalgic for their own childhood.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:28 pm to Fewer Kilometers
i'm talking violent crime
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
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i'm talking violent crime
Same answer. I never had to worry about a Union soldier kicking in my front door and confiscating my pizza in the name of Abraham Lincoln and the Army of the Potomac.
Or Polio.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:46 pm to Ace Midnight
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Cocaine.
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Cyndi Lauper
Posted on 3/23/18 at 2:47 pm to Jack Ruby
Simple, the generation born and raised in the 80s are now adults with disposable income. They are nostalgic for their childhoods, so it drives the market.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 3:10 pm to Jack Ruby
Because the next generations have no money, so Gen X is still the group to pander to.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 3:20 pm to Jack Ruby
Who are you hanging out with? Generation X is in the process taking over the top tier of society (in terms of money and influence) from the Baby Boomers, many of whom aren't as comfortable with the whole computer/internet thing as the X-ers. So the X-ers tend to have a louder voice in the public domain, including discussion of culture and influence on entertainment media. Advertisers might aim for the young'uns because they're the future and potential life-long customers, but that doesn't change the fact that the X-ers have the higher-paying jobs and the established influence.
Edit for clarity: the Gen X-ers are the ones most likely to recall the '80s fondly.
Edit 2: Now that I've the thread, I realize I didn't need to clarify because others have already pointed this out. Sorry.
Edit for clarity: the Gen X-ers are the ones most likely to recall the '80s fondly.
Edit 2: Now that I've the thread, I realize I didn't need to clarify because others have already pointed this out. Sorry.
This post was edited on 3/23/18 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 3/23/18 at 3:23 pm to SlowFlowPro
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while ironically being the literal most dangerous time to live in America
Not sure I buy that. The cities were more dangerous than they are now, but I need to see evidence that the rest of the country was. And even the cities weren't really more dangerous than they were in the '70s. There's always been crime and poverty and disease. AIDS and the crack epidemic just replaced other diseases and other crime trends.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 3:38 pm to Freauxzen
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In college or high school? I do not remember this in High School. Looking back at post-grunge 90s....the late 90s were almost "cultureless."
In college.
Around 1995-96. It was like an extension of grunge but going more hippie.
Of course, depends where you lived. Because there was a backlash to the 80's - and because grunge was becoming so passe even by mid-90's - that culture-less period you reference is when mostly girls decided we have no culture - lets go back to the 70's - that seems cool...they certainly weren't going back to the 80's.
But then back to the 80's happened in late 2000s.
It seems you need a 20 years separation and then something becomes cool again.
Because 80's kids made fun of the 70's and 90's kids made fun of the 80's...and so on and so forth.
But then the new generation creates this revival.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 3:46 pm to BRIllini07
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Most pop culture aspects starting in the 90's haven't died off enough to become nostalgic. Others weren't popular enough to be widespread to begin with. At the height of the grunge era, maybe 10% of our school would have a flannel-based wardrobe?
When I turned 21 in 1998, if I walked into a bar and a song from 1983 (15 year gap) was playing - it would be obviously 80's night or a dedicated '80s bar.
90s bars don't exist yet, even 20+ years later. I could leave work this afternoon and go to 15 different bars, and odds are there would still be 90's music playing at some point in nearly all of them and it would fit right in. Some bar playing Alanis Morrisette today would feel more in place than some bar in 2001 playing Cyndi Lauper.
i think this hits the nail on the head. everything from the 80s is just so out there, and obviously "80s"- music, clothing, movies, etc.
if you look at clothing/fashion from the 90s, while different from today, there's not a huge difference. Really i think the main difference is baggy clothing was popular in the 90s, and now tight/skinny clothing is in. 80s was just so out there with the bright colors and such.
80s movies and music feels really dated as well. 90s music and movies really not as much.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 6:02 pm to Ace Midnight
The Baby Boomers are getting old and becoming more nostalgic, and there are still a lot of them around. When the 80s started the Baby Boomers were in their 20s to mid 30s, they were the ones creating the pop culture and having children. Yuppies, Wall St., cocaine, cable tv, computers... were when the baby boomers were the grown ups.
Happy Days, Back to the Future, Wonder Years, were the boomers looking back at their childhoods.
Happy Days, Back to the Future, Wonder Years, were the boomers looking back at their childhoods.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 7:41 pm to Jack Ruby
I thought the 90's (outside of kids cartoons) was an absolute joke. Nostalgia makes anything seem cool.
Posted on 3/23/18 at 9:27 pm to Jack Ruby
The 80s laid the groundwork for the modern era and all the things we have now that pop culture revolves around. Cable TV, home computers, Nintendo (and 8 bit video game consoles in general starting the Bit Wars), blockbuster style movies, the music scene, big time consumerism and the anti-yuppie culture that came with it, etc.
Basically the 80s are the pop culture version of the funny stories/jokes/sayings your grandpa and dad told you about that you still tell today and get a laugh from everybody out of.
Basically the 80s are the pop culture version of the funny stories/jokes/sayings your grandpa and dad told you about that you still tell today and get a laugh from everybody out of.
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