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Reliving 80s Pop Music

There were a variety of trends that defined the 80s, and 80s pop music may very well have been the most significant of them all. Sure we had Ronald Regan and Reaganomics, John Hughes films and Molly Ringwald, but could any of this compare with the likes of Madonna, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Kylie Minogue, Belinda Carlisle, The Bangles or New Kids On The Block? I think not!

Not only did 80s pop music define who we were, but the music held the anthems of our daily lives. We woke up to “manic Mondays” with the Bangles just to find ourselves “hangin tough” with the New Kids On The Block by the time Wednesday or Thursday rolled around. When the weekend came, Kylie had us doing the “Locomotive” and Debbie Gibson taught us that youth was electric.

Of course 80s pop music did have its dark side – if you could call it that. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was introduced to us in 1982 and the video for the song was the world’s first “horror” music video. Some people say the scariest thing about the Thriller video is that it foreshadowed what Michael would look like in later years. Who would have guessed?

Unfortunately, not all 80s pop music stars were able to maintain their fortune and fame. Ask the youth of today what Bananarama is and they’ll probably say it’s an ice cream special. Tell them to name the New Kids On The Block and they may just start spouting off the names of the kids who have moved into the neighborhood over the past year. Not exactly the answers we would have given in the 80s, are they?

Well even if the youth of today doesn’t recognize just how cool 80s pop music was, we will always remember it – and that is something they can never take away from us.
 

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