Meanwhile, nowadays 80s-kid lists abound on the interwebs, virtual nods to the awesomeness of the decade that gave us the moonwalk: Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs, cobbers and lolly teeth, leg warmers, neon-coloured t-shirts, hairspray and music magazines that included song lyrics. But the film wasn’t a dig it was an acknowledgement that the 80s were an interesting time of development, sexual exploration and sequined gloves. He poked fun at it, because very little from the 80s looks good now, no matter how hard fashion has tried to bring neon back. Adam Sandler, for all of his faults, gave us The Wedding Singer, a comedic love letter to the Best Decade Ever. PC wasn’t a thing, and while we can comfortably critique this from our more enlightened 2017 viewpoint, I believe the 80s gave us more positive things than negatives.Ī look at how far we've come, and how far we have to go. Gross-out humour in frat-boy comedies? Check. The 80s got drunk on itself, uninhibited and willing to try anything. The funny thing about the 80s was how it didn’t take itself too seriously. Sure, you can argue all of those things, but the true beauty of the 80s doesn’t lie in what it didn’t have it’s that decades later, anyone who grew up in the 80s will immediately transform into a puddle of neon-scented nostalgia, able to quote Eddie Murphy and demonstrate ‘Wax on, wax off’ with impressive accuracy.Īnd who can forget those plastic bubbles you blew through a thin straw that were later discovered to be toxic? Good times. I don’t put the 80s on a pedestal because I’m old and think kids are terrible these days or that the days of simplicity are over because social media and the Internet have ruined us all. I had the privilege of being an 80s child by a Flock-of-Seagulls hair, and am pleased to note that the 80s remains an influential decade in all of its overblown glory.
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