To me, that time period... it isn’t so popular. These movies, the music in them, their cheesy outfits and hair dos and the way they spoke... it just seems like a time period I can’t relate with. Fatal charm , breakfast club, etc. just idk something about that time period that seems fake. Can’t really put my finger on it. Maybe it’s just me. Lol
Right, Pulp Fiction, a 1994 film was a total flap and Nirvana at its prime, the worst time in the history of human kind...I rather be in 2021 living in the middle of a world wide pandemic, oh yea...
Late 80's and early 90's created so much arts and entertainment for the generation then and influenced now - it's not even funny. Not fake at all.
Music was only part of it but a huge impact. Don't even shit on John Hughes movies and soundtracks !
If Grunge never came around and temporarily 'dethroned' hair metal . This generation would still be in spandex and complaining about how insensitive it is to transgenders. Oh wait ?! they would do that anyways
Music, Art, Movies , Fashion and even house parties all stood for something without having to hate on your neighbor like this BS agenda and virtue signaling we have in this wonderful millennial+ generation. Rap wars excluded but at least they had some tight ass lyrics !
Most of the movies now are reboots of movies from the 80s and 90s. Plus all the sneaker designs are "retro" now. No more inspiration or creativity so they just redo what was ready great
To be fair, Breakfast Club was more early to mid 80's. All those John Hughes movies were more on the alternative music scene of the early to mid 80's. The early 80's definitely had some cheesy trends. But yesterdays cheesy trends are todays in-style must wear. Leg warmers became the cheesy trend of the early 80's and ripped jeans late 80's. Shoulder pads. They all made comebacks recently. Even Harem pants made a brief comeback. The visible G string is back. Everything comes back around. While I enjoy the visible G string making a comeback...I am not looking forward to mullets and sagging pants ever making a comeback though.
@Upper Magic only got a repeat. 87-88 His threepeat was cut short by a hamstring injury in game 2. Still 9 Finals appearances in 12 years. I think the three finals he missed, he was injured for two of them....and the other, half his teammates were injured. Mikan's Lakers had a threepeat. And of course Kobe and Shaq had a threepeat. And of course LeBron and AD.
'In Living Color' was GREAT!!! I LMAO'd every week.
Nobody was safe from their barbs!! So much great talent!
The network executives asked Keenan Ivory Wayans to tone it down after big $$ sponsors started advertising on the show, and he walked away rather than change the show. The network suits didn't understand. They just killed the golden goose.
To me most of the music from the 80 has not stood the test of time. I liked Depeche Mode but there was a lot of shit.
You had a combination of the anti-big-band revolt brought on by the punk and new wave movement. You couldnt say "Led Zeppelin " in public. The other dynamic going on was MTV's bringing a fashion focus into music through the medium of TV.
There was people with total for shit talent hooked up just because someone thought it would sell on TV.
Sorta like today's media has way too much combined involvement with todays politics and govt.
Hip hop came along and the big execs and music moguls did not understand it at all and all they knew is it sold well, really well.
and then you had a whole bunch of different underground genres start to appear in the early 90's through out the 90's where artist had a lot of control of what they were making
video games were like this as well
and even to some degree movies
fast forward today and everything is about making money. Music, Movies , video games are no longer art, just a product that is put out so these big execs and shareholders can make big bucks
Sure the early years of MTV had a lot of cheesy bad videos...but videos were not really a thing other than to promote bands at dance clubs or live recordings. Also, the skinploitaion videos of the late 80's where any hairband or rap band could have a hit video off of a terrible song if they had hot models showing off a lot of skin. But it was infinitely better than what came later...
All Music ALL the time
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Real World, Road Rulez, and Real World vs Road Rulez
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this hot mess
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I'm sure there was a lot of fakeness in the late 80s to early 90s, as there is and was in every time but the main thrust of art back then was the opposite. In music for example, college rock became big, the stuff played on college radio stations. It was a reaction against the corporate rock of the 70s to mid 80s, and the art-school imageray of the early and mid-eighties. It was the rise of bands like REM, Prince, The Replacements, the Pixies, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair. Lo-Fi became a vibe. Bands wore jeans and t-shirts instead of sylized get ups....and that led to Nirvana which was the pinacle. At the same time you had hip hop/rap artists who were singing about real shit in their neighborhoods. There was a real concern about "selling out" or being inauthentic. That faded by the late nineties to the point now where because it's so much harder to make a living in it, people want their music anywhere it will make money. There's no such thing as selling out. I think of the late 80s and 90s as actually a pinnacle of great music and art. But I came of age then. If you were born in '83, your idea of great music is going to be vastly different than mine. It will have been shaped by the stuff you came of age with. Whatever people love when their 18 to 28 or so....whatever that is, that's the shit and that's going to be the shit for their whole lives, the way Vietnam Vet burnouts love Creedence, and Gen Z loves Lady Gaga.
“...just idk something about that time period that seems fake.”
Really? But people in 2021, yeah, they’re totally real. Back in the later 80s and early 90s we didn’t “cancel” someone because they had a different opinion than us.
