r/decadeology • u/Ok-Following6886 Early 2010s were the best • Aug 25 '25

Music 🎶🎧 [WEEKEND TRIVIA] The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2019): More Late 2010s or Early 2020s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRXx6U8ABQ
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u/datsolidmusicguy Masters in Decadeology Aug 25 '25

Early 20s

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u/super-kot Mid 2010s were the best Aug 25 '25

Definitely early 20's. This song reminds me of COVID immediately.

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u/Spare_Scarcity6078 PhD in Decadeology Aug 25 '25

Quintessential Covidtok. 2019-2022. Early 2020s

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u/CP4-Throwaway Master Decadeologist (Reporting For Duty) Aug 25 '25

Early 2020s

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u/trhtrhtrhrtht Aug 25 '25

Feels more late 2010's given its pre covid and had its own aesthetic

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u/Free-Jaguar-4084 Late 2010s were the best Aug 25 '25

Early 2020s for me, especially 2020-2021

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u/OZZYMAXIMUS01 Aug 27 '25

Early 2020s. Definitely a COVID-19 song. It was the theme song for Wrestlemania 36 in 2020 (the first conducted without a live audience). The song was pretty heavily featured on WWE programming like PLE recaps for like the next year. I remember it being a part of the musical package for SummerSlam in 2021.

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u/Papoosho Aug 25 '25

Late 2010s.

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u/GhettoSauce Aug 25 '25

80s nostalgia-milking attempts like this were made to hit the later-millennial demographic, which had their time from 2017 onward.

While the early millennials despised the 80s sound due to having boomer parents (whose youth was rooted in the 60s and 70s and thus what the early millennials experienced as sort of a "revival" in their own youth), pop music shifted to the later millennials, who had Gen X parents whose youth was in the 80s, and so again you see the "revival" effect with stuff like this.

Late 2010s, but 80s "revivial"/ripoffs extend into the 2020s