What is going on with 1980's "nostalgia"? It's not really nostalgia, though, since many 80's fans are Zoomers/Millennials who weren't even born then. There is a bizarre quality to this. Were Baby Boomers "nostalgic" for the 1920's and 30's? It seems to be the opposite with them - they completely ignored culture from before they were born, and even ignored most 1950's culture from when they were kids.
So what makes this current wave of nostalgia different? The other odd characteristic of 1980's nostalgia is that it began over 20 years ago. "80's culture" as a concept existed by the mid-90's or so, and has basically never stopped. What are the social and political implications of this obsession with the past?
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Joshua King
the 80's were so 2010's we're heading into the 2020's now. the hot topic will be boycotting israel. it's the cool thing to do. boycotts of the jewish state will be the lisa frank trapper keepers of the 2020's.
I was born in 1980 and I have been listening to nothing but60’s, 70’s and 80’s music for the past 5-6 years. I think music started declining rapidly in the 90’s. 2000 and beyond has been complete shit for music.
87 here. I think the early 2010's are phoenominal in terms of experimental and electronic music. in 200 years, it'll be considered technoclassical. people will study it like bach and base whole theses off of it.
I was 20 in '83 and lived in California through the rest of the decade. There was some great music and possibly was the last decade to have decent pop music.
it was perhaps the nearest time before the changes the internet and globalism/multiculturalism brought so it seems somehow within reach so people disillusioned with the current year and all its disappointing garbage.
The 1980's were basically one big burst of creativity for pop culture. Terminator, Dune (Yes, it failed as a cohesive movie but a LOT was done right), Predator, all the good movie franchises were born in the 1980's.
Brayden James
The 1980's were basically the last time anyone remembers not being nagged to give a shit about blacks and fags.
Ryder Edwards
There is a paper that explains nostalgic waves and how they occur bigenerationally - the 1950s were huge in the 1980s pop and subculture think Edward Scissorhands and Rock Lobster. The 1990s saw the 1970s return through Austin Powers and disco as techno. The same waves reverberate into the 2000s, with the 1990s being a current metawave, see Captain Marvel marketing
Lucas Campbell
The 80’s in America was the very pinicle of humanity. It’s been all down hill since.
I've got thousands of tapes. I find it very interesting to analyze this propaganda from a different era. They were so blatant in their symbolism and use of programming phrases, its surreal.
It was a time in America where you were allowed to let your guard down from war or global political tension. It was a time of casually walking the mall with your friends drinking a smoothie and then going to see a movie. Maybe go browse the music store of the latest New Wave music.
Women still retained a sense of family values even during the pop culture movement. It was a time unlike any other and was the ideal setting for the modern world.
Blake Cox
I mostly agree but I'm totally autistic for Coheed and Cambria.
Jaxon Peterson
80s was the bridge between the old vintage world and the new modern world. America was entering a new age in technology and everything seemed promising, there was optimism instead of today's pessimism. Then da joos took over in the 90s
Jace Carter
>Were Baby Boomers "nostalgic" for the 1920's and 30's? no, they openly hated and rallied to destroy everything that came before them, which they did.
the reason people are more nostalgic for the 80s rather than other 'white' eras like the 00s, 90s, 60s, 70s etc was it being the last era where all futures still felt possible. 80s scifi movies especially were often set in dystopian, dark hellscapes but they still have some resonance with viewers now, as during that era it was never set in stone that those worlds were where we were heading, we were being collectively imagining what we considered the worst case scenario. at the same time, the music of the era was optimistic, the 'slice of life' tv shows showed the most conventional path possible from past generations was still viable, the 'coming of age' teenage tv shows/movies showed us that even the biggest losers could make it. all of the media from the era had that same thread, heres a glimpse of what COULD come.
by the mid-late 90s and into the 2000s the worlds potentials narrowed into a single mediocre shit path, which we are now living in
Brody Miller
is this bait
Adrian Watson
>points out a strange trend >immediately jump to Jewish holocaust conspiracy
w e w
Connor Smith
80's dystopian media had a strange and enduring aesthetic. Modern dystopian media mostly seems to be about zombies, which is somehow a lot more depressing.
>80's dystopian media had a strange and enduring aesthetic. the music of those movies has made a comeback also, the synthwave was always associated with these futuristic hellscapes but it was futurism. we cant have our own futurism, futurism was fueled by unlimited potential, its what we want back, we've been on a single lane highway to this mediocre kiked shithole state for decades.
