what does/did the eighties revival of the early 21st C mean?

Poison did go on a stadium tour summer of 2002 did they not?

According the a fashion magazine I looked at yesterday, the 50s and 60s are back. Everyone must own a miniskirt for spring.

it means that the cycles of nostalgia are shrinking

A more concrete way of putting that: I think one of the big things now is that the (early) 80s managed to combine a pretty flighty and imaginative approach to culture with reactions to what were perceived as serious socio-political issues. And in comparison to at least American culture during past years -- where culture has been depressingly un-flighty and affected decent amounts of apathy and cynicism about the world -- those 80s things have begun to seem appealing again.

(A simpler way of putting that is that cultural Romanticism is definitely a part of the whole thing.)

do you feel dead inside, n?

Late 80s/early 90s dance music has been noticeably left out. New Wave, R&B/hiphop and synthpop have been getting all the attention (although it should be noted the peak of interest in early 80s soul/rap seems to have passed already, more proof that BLACK MUSIC MOVES FASTER)

Particularly annoying, I found, was the goffs' redemption of 'classics' like Aha. These people are simply on crack and there's no hope at all. I mean, even as irony, it just doesn't cut it.

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Carry on.

Jess: that was mostly a joke. People over that age certainly wind up consuming these trends, though I do think it tends to be in slightly different ways than the ones that get talked about.

that's actually what I was kind of thinking about when I started it, honestly. i think eighties futurism might be being used to take the piss out of the earnest almost utopian futurism of the late nineties. also thinking maybe "yuppie" became a relevent icon again in the dot.com boom and the whole electro-clash thing was directly related to a whole pile of tech-savvy hipsters having just been laid-off.

HaHa...can't argue w/that...was this intentional, nabisco?

(hey, remember the chia pet?! "i've fallen and i can't get up"?! cross colors?! color change shirts?! sorry i wanted to get in on the ground floor.)

i fully support the return of sleeves without shirts and legwarmers.

I fully support the return of the keyboard-worn-like-a-guitar.

I'll go with that if it helps my brother's fashion sense. If all the fashionista/Williamsburgers got into Big Country, and my brother dressed better, both sides could benefit.

I say go whole hog and support shirts without fabric, Jess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofZrpPQQRac

I need more of this eighties/early nineties khaleeji. The little I've heard is mostly quite interesting. This is a good example of how the traditional clapping is used in more of a pop context.

i don't feel like starting a thread on this so someone else can do it

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/an-eighties-revival-stranger-things-have-happened/article37681719/

new 80s revival movie summer of 84 showing at sundance

"There's an eighties comeback in everything pop culture right now," says Yoann-Karl Whissell, one third of the directing trio RKSS. Short for Roadkill Superstar, the Canadian team – which includes Yoann-Karl, his sister Anouk Whissell and François Simard, Anouk's partner – is behind the new Sundance thriller Summer of '84, the follow-up to 2015's Turbo Kid, a BMX-centric ode to the postapocalyptic shenanigans of Mad Max.

haven't actually watched the other ones mentioned there