Question for people born in the '80s
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Being 11 years younger than you (lol), my memory is each new Beatles album. Who'd think a group could go from She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah to Yesterday to Yellow Submarine to The Long and Winding Road in a mere seven years? They taught us something I wish musicians and listeners would still remember -- different is good. No need to do the same ole. People are willing for change. (Bob Dylan taught that too.)
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It was not all that great. I was born in 1979. There were bad things in the 1980s and 1990s like any other decades. Pop culture was at a low. I can't think of very many outstandingly great movies made in the 1980s. AIDS scared everyone to death. Operation Desert Storm happened, fashion was hideous. 2000 was not all that exciting. A handful of people got worked up about Y2K, but for most people, it was just another year.
Be glad you are who you are. God meant you to be born when you were born. I wish I were born in the 1930s and was a housewife in the 1950s, but God didn't mean that for me. There are good and bad things about every decade.
Be glad you are who you are. God meant you to be born when you were born. I wish I were born in the 1930s and was a housewife in the 1950s, but God didn't mean that for me. There are good and bad things about every decade.
There were some scary things like the Manson murders and serial killers but for the most part the 70's were awesome. People were so friendly and polite and there weren't too many cars yet so there was hardly any traffic and everyone seemed to get along so well and families always ate dinner together, kids played outside and it was real easy to make new friends, and families spent a lot of quality time together. There was also the Jesus movement going on along with the peace and love movement so there were a lot of loving young people around, and music was like the biggest thing back then...
The 80's and 90's were when technology started taking over and families started spending less time together. The kids in the 80's were sometimes referred to as "latchkey" kids because both parents worked so they had to let themselves into the house after school. Before the 80's, most moms stayed at home and a family could be raised on a single income. During those 2 decades alone we gained the answering machine, the microwave oven, the fax machine, the personal computer, the cell phone and the internet. The reason they're not my favorite decade is because that's when people started losing touch with each other. Human interaction was become less of a thing and people were becoming more interested in being yuppies (financially successful young corporate ladder climbers). So yea, that's pretty much it..
The 80's and 90's were when technology started taking over and families started spending less time together. The kids in the 80's were sometimes referred to as "latchkey" kids because both parents worked so they had to let themselves into the house after school. Before the 80's, most moms stayed at home and a family could be raised on a single income. During those 2 decades alone we gained the answering machine, the microwave oven, the fax machine, the personal computer, the cell phone and the internet. The reason they're not my favorite decade is because that's when people started losing touch with each other. Human interaction was become less of a thing and people were becoming more interested in being yuppies (financially successful young corporate ladder climbers). So yea, that's pretty much it..
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Oh noooo.... we cannot be friends!
Oh wait... I see now what the "problem" is.. You were still too young to really experience the 80's...
The 80's was the birth of the blockbuster action movie and the blockbuster action movie hero. Before that we only had westerns, war movies and seriously tacky-fake-flying-badly-dubbed-in-english kung fu movies (and I don't mean Bruce Lee movies)..
Also, the 80's was the height of disco (Saturday Night Fever) and the explosion of the 'teen heartthrob' era.. Every teenage girl had posters and magazines of their favorite celebrity crushes (Rob Lowe, John Stamos, Marky Mark a.k.a. Mark Wahlberg, Tom Cruise (believe it or not lol), Patrick Swayze, Emilio Esteves, Thomas C Howell, Ralph Macchio, etc...)
Also... the 80's was the birth of modern pop music, new wave style music and heavy metal (INXS, U2, Boston, The Bangles, Duran Duran, The Police, Rush, Def Leppard, Journey, AC/DC. Van Halen, Micheal Jackson, Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, etc...)
It was a really fun decade!
The 80's was the birth of the blockbuster action movie and the blockbuster action movie hero. Before that we only had westerns, war movies and seriously tacky-fake-flying-badly-dubbed-in-english kung fu movies (and I don't mean Bruce Lee movies
).. Also, the 80's was the height of disco (Saturday Night Fever) and the explosion of the 'teen heartthrob' era.. Every teenage girl had posters and magazines of their favorite celebrity crushes (Rob Lowe, John Stamos, Marky Mark a.k.a. Mark Wahlberg, Tom Cruise (believe it or not lol), Patrick Swayze, Emilio Esteves, Thomas C Howell, Ralph Macchio, etc...)
Also... the 80's was the birth of modern pop music, new wave style music and heavy metal (INXS, U2, Boston, The Bangles, Duran Duran, The Police, Rush, Def Leppard, Journey, AC/DC. Van Halen, Micheal Jackson, Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, etc...)
It was a really fun decade!
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