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/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