Why People Are Obsessed with the 80s

This new obsession with the 80s is really my generation coming of age.  We are in our mid-20’s to early-40s now.  We are the up in coming writers, bloggers, producers and directors and we are remembering our child and teen years.  So it is really just nostalgia.  That is why you see all the 80s movie remakes (Transformers, Miami Vice, Dukes of Hazard), 80s music samples, 80s revisited culture, re-ingnited 80s stars (Mr. T, Weird Al) and even 80s blogs.

I suspect that in about 5-10 years we’ll see the same thing happen with the 90’s when the Internet generation starts to come of age.  There revolution will be much different since they’ll include the 2000’s and talk about things like the “Star Wars kid” and “Numa” and that peanut butter jelly song banana.   

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