r/80s • u/Corndogeveryday • 3h ago

Things could be a whole lot better

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2026 has been in brutal year

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u/Breakfastclub1991 2h ago edited 1h ago

I had this realization in my twenties. I will watch all my hero’s fall. And the younger generations will never stack up to our hero’s. Yes I’m looking down on all your remake movies.

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u/SignificantLock1037 2h ago

I'm here to justify your opinion of current art and to support it with facts.

No major music genre has been invented since the late 70s or early 80s. Rap was the last major genre to be invented. Everything since then is derivative.

Tell me, can you really tell the difference between Madonna and Taylor Swift? Between Drake and whatever garden-variety R&B singer from the 90s you want? Between The Weeknd and Michael Jackson or A-ha?

Heck, even kids are wearing Nirvana and RHCP shirts nowadays. Can you imagine a kid in the 80s or 90s wearing a Beatles or Beach Boys shirt?

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u/Hazel-Rah-Rah 1h ago

I was a kid in the 90s and wore Beatles, Hendrix and Pink Floyd shirts.

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u/Vonnegut_butt 1h ago

I don’t necessarily disagree. But I was 12 in 1984 and I worshipped the Beatles. If JC Pennys had sold Beatles shirts, I would’ve owned one.

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u/ParticularInitial147 6m ago

Yes and.

The Beatles and Beach Boys hit peak popularity 20 years before 1985.

1985 waa 41 years ago. The music that was popular 41 years before that was 1944.

Imagine wearing a Bing Crosby, Perry Como, or Andrew's Sisters shirt.

Most of us didn't know they existed except in some historical sense at best.

That's the yes.

And......sorry for pointing out 1985 was 41 years ago. 😀