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<\/p>The continued cultural importance of the 1980s doesn\u2019t completely make sense. I know that as my generation grows older, the nostalgia for our youth gains strength. But the continued fascination with \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d and The Go-Go\u2019s has to survive on more than memories.\n

\"\"<\/a>I understood this phenomena a little better after reading Rob Sheffield\u2019s memoir\/80\u2019s homage \u201cTalking to Girls About Duran Duran<\/a>.\u201d Sheffield<\/a>, a long-time Rolling Stone writer, takes you through the decade that won\u2019t die via his experiences with each chapter built around a song.<\/p>\n

Given that the author and I seem to have tread lots of similar territory (and one of my first instincts was to create a playlist from the songs which inspired each chapter), I had no choice but to love this book. I have connections to many of the songs. It doesn\u2019t matter that I don\u2019t drift towards all of them because the angst and confusion and exploration that went with the time rang completely true to me. I just connect some of those feelings with \u201cStone Cold Yesterday\u201d by The Connells instead of \u201cHangin\u2019 Tough\u201d by New Kids on the Block.<\/p>\n

However, every generation can overstate the importance of their youth. I can\u2019t wait until 30 years from now when kids roll their eyes as their parents go on and on about how life changed thanks to a Taylor Swift song or iCarly episode. I really hope I live that long just so I can laugh.<\/p>\n

But the 80s really did mean something. In the chapter dedicated to the Psychedelic Furs song \u201cPretty in Pink,\u201d he examines why the movies of John Hughes and other 80s directors continue to resonate today. This has to be a real things since academic books<\/a> have developed from this idea.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sign of how 1980s teen culture keeps on resonating \u2013 even people who were born in the \u201990s can O.D. on borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered \u201980s. Maybe that\u2019s because it was an era when teen trash was the only corner of pop culture that wasn\u2019t a high-gloss fraud. Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s and music for adults sucked even worse \u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that\u2019s a gross over-generalization, but the movies nominated for Best Picture from 1984 (the year \u201c16 Candles\u201d was released) were Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart and A Soldier\u2019s Story. And don\u2019t even get me started on the Grammy\u2019s.<\/p>\n

But the notion that art aimed at teens drove pop culture in the 1980s is almost undeniable. Sheffield does a wonderful job at capturing how that reality helped define individual personalities and change American culture.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The continued cultural importance of the 1980s doesn\u2019t completely make sense. I know that as my generation grows older, the nostalgia for our youth gains strength. But the continued fascination with \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d and The Go-Go\u2019s has to survive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-books","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-57-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}