One thing we know is that style has a cycle, and over the past few years, there has been a plethora of flashbacks from the “Oh yeahs” to the “Oh God, what are they wearing!” but it seems that the world has finally settled on a style, or should we say era?
Have you noticed the overwhelming amount of 80’s music, references, style, and pop culture references there are around at the moment? Why is this? Is there something about copyright issues with playing music and 80’s music is now a free-for-all? Is it just that there is such nostalgia because it looks like there is no future?
Maybe this was all sparked by shows like Stranger Things? Pose? The ’80s-themed Black Mirror episode? Glow? ( I mean, I could go on, but you get the point.)
Since the success of Stranger Things, people are jumping on the bandwagon left, right, and centre. Ready Player One took the lead in the box office and sparked a rise in VR, 80s-themed books, games, etc. Then we got Bohemian Rhapsody, Bumblebee, and a whole host of Horror movies set in the decade.
Now, no matter what TV show/movie you are watching (set in this world, or not), there is some sort of 80’s reference or 80’s music. Far Futuristic Sci-Fi, and they walk into an ’80s-themed bar, a Prom, and all the music is New Romantic and Soap-stars becoming Pop-stars.
Is this like the “Beyonce” bug that everyone caught a couple of years back? Where everything had to be in reference to the great “Queen B” (This is said sarcastically or sardonically; we are not fans.)
There are still ideas that have not been explored, histories to discover, new books to adapt, plenty of music out there from other decades to be played or other eras in time to revisit, but no, it’s got to be the 80’s or nothing.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of things from the 80’s that were great, The New Romantics and their cross-dressing, Decadence of capitalism exploding, making millions all over the place, the start of the Internet, Technology surpassing people’s imagination, and so much more.
But the style they focus on?! Dungarees? The big, big hair? Bowl haircuts? Why? Why haven’t we focused more on shoulder pads? Men wearing makeup? Or Punk? Let’s go back to punk? Even rolled-up sleeves, pastel blazers, and loafers, that’s far better than what seems to be the ‘Eighties Style’ choices we’ve got now.
Sure, there was good music too, some amazing music and probably better music than currently, but all the same songs keep appearing in every show, surely not every prom slow song can be danced to ‘Take these broken wings’, or ‘Love will tear us apart’, cannot be the only song that plays every time the main couple breaks up.
I mean, there are only so many times you can hear Wham!, Pet Shop Boys, Take That, Rick Astley, Howard Jones, or The Eurythmics before banging your head repetitively against the wall. Let’s try some more obscure things.
So the question is, are we ever going to move on from the 80’s? Or is the answer…..
Is this just us, or have you noticed the Plethora of ’80s-inspired stuff too?
Or are you caught up in the Time Warp, with Marty McFly and Doc Brown? Are you sick of it yet?
You could let us know, not that you will, because we only get stupid comments like ‘You Suck’, but we try. So follow our Social Media too, where you won’t see any posts because we don’t post on Instagram, we occasionally Tweet something if we remember, and don’t get us started about Facebook!
So yeah
Leave a Reply