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What is your theory for why 80s cultural artifacts have become mainstream again? E.g. music like ABBA, Everyone wants to rule the world, etc; entertainment like Stranger Things, Breakfast Club; fashion like the shades, etc Working theory: internet native youths subconsciously yearn for an analog world
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The internet has transformed the cyclical nature we’d only started to recognize was playing out in culture before the internets arrival. It’s now something detached from the traditional sense of time we’d been conditioned to in the decades before.
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Though I’m still seeing ripples of trends from a decade ago resurging as expected, say tropical button down shirts or tie dye, in general we’ve been moving toward a more ambiguous and amorphous cultural blob through the internet where decade labels will start to signify much less of what they used to.
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What I think we’re collectively sensing is the assimilation of the old ways of culture into the new virtual/internet driven engine of culture
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Another lens I like to approach it through is that all of culture as a mine, and subcultures as their own veins. Daring cultural explorers or β€œminers” start down certain veins, a lot of these veins were started in their associated decades but so many were apt to avoid mining the same veins then for obv reasons..
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Now decades later, younger cultural explorers are seeing the value still left behind in many of those veins
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Perhaps seeing better versions of those times? Distance allows distillation. I hope so. Refinement by the current generation of cultural constructions!!! Please!!, because the 80s really was dead and soulless in many ways. But, I guess (not to be total grinch) we did get Macintosh…that was good 😊 .
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There’s gold in them hills, most people just can’t see the rest of the gold in the heat of the moment of novelty of the shiny new
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One thought re 80s is re-exploring the emergence of synthesisers as a legitimate musical instrument in a bands lineup. Before then, it was sort of a novelty - but with 80s it was being integrated as first class citizen. New Order, Human League, Petshop Boys. Synths are cool 🎹
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It was a novelty that had finally been brought to salience within the mainstream culture but subcultures had been mining on that sound for decades previous Yes, synths are my life, I can’t get enough of them
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