#80s pop culture

[cinematicwasteland]

[lightspeedhunter]

Keith Haring doing his thing in the 5th avenue nyc subway station.

Circa 1984

Photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi

[enter-the-phantom]

https://youtu.be/sgswsGnu8gA?si=GGjoJ429Hhjl175y

Holy crap. It’s finally done. And now you can all see why this took me so incredibly long. Everything from the research and writing to the editing and animation I did entirely on my own and it’s the biggest project I’ve ever undertaken. I’m very proud of it and I think it’s good for my first attempt at an essay!

That being said, it’s long, so I don’t expect anyone to actually watch this in its entirety, but if you’d like to give it a couple views and a thumbs up, I’d be very appreciative! ❤️

[morgleaf]

heyyy u made it!! so glad u showed up uhhh here’s some stuff that i may or may not be obsessed with ( o˘◡˘o)

♡┊꒰ movies ꒱ — the outsiders (1983), the karate kid (1984), the breakfast club (1985), back to the future (1985), ferris bueller’s day off (1986), my cousin vinny (1992), remember the titans (2000), napoleon dynamite (2004), roll bounce (2005)

♡┊꒰ songs ꒱ — every little thing she does is magic by the police, oh my god by a tribe called quest, gloria (mono version) by them, self by noname, boogie nights by heatwave, when i b on tha mic by rakim, dirty laundry by don henley, roadrunner (once) by the modern lovers & jonathan richman

♡┊꒰ other ꒱ — rotary phones, drive-in theaters, july, sunburns, discos, old burger joints, cool breezes, when the waiter puts a cherry in your shirley temple, laughing so hard your stomach starts to hurt, beat up sneakers, old magazines with crinkly pages, roller skating, derry girls, columbo

♡┊꒰ 80s ꒱ — music, movies, fashion, graphic design, magazines, illustration, television, and pop culture (and literally anything ralph macchio related)

[retrostarwarsdaily]

Our Favorite Protocol Droid (#228): 1980 Topps The Empire Strikes Back

[geeky-fuckery]

[laszlove]

Geena Davis in Sara, 1985

[mollyringle]

Growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s led me to believe that participating in a Battle of the Bands was going to be a much more frequent and important occurrence than it turned out to be.

[momche]

a much deserved superdeluxe release for #80s pop #music with an #indie twist #voiceofthebeehive

[ooc-themis-cattails]

Quite a lot of people don't know the difference between 80s style and 90s style. After all, there are famous designs such as Jazz that were created in the 90s, but are distinctly 80s style.

Combining them has huge artistic consequences!

History, style, patterns, fashion

"So what" you might be thinking. "Since it was the adjacent decade, it's close!" But no. Every decade's style is essentially a rejection of the prior one. The least "cool" thing in any decade is what people were doing in the prior. It's not yet retro, so it looks very much like older folks who don't know trends pretending WAY too hard that they do. And, uh, one of the worst things you could do in the 90s was pretend too hard. The "jazz" pattern was on paper cups and plates. Something bought mostly by adults who either don't know what has stopped being cool, or prefer the trends of the earlier decade they come from. It had a stylistically aged design, but all the people who bought these products came from earlier decades.

90s teens did not think this pattern looked good. In the 90s, you COULD NOT embrace 80s style, unless you wanted to look like a massive dork, like something out of a flashback. In fact, patterns of almost any kind were considered "tacky" at best, and "horrendous" more often than not, and this kind of stuff was actually used on tv to signal "flashback to the past" or "especially uncool person with no sense of style or taste".

So, if you're combining them in art-- that is not historically accurate. That's either a retro fantasy style, or a signal that the 80s thing is "old and poor" and hasn't been replaced in the 90s, as it otherwise would have been replaced out of embarrassment.

[cinematicwasteland]

[lightspeedhunter]

Wham! Performing Live On Stage, London 1983

Andrew Ridgeley & George Michael

In the center, backup singers Dee C Lee & Shirlie Holliman

[themousefromfantasyland]

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex

Gallery1988 presents ‘Radical Pulps’, a solo art exhibition by Stephen Andrade, featuring 1980s pop culture reimagined as vintage pulp fiction magazines. Artwork from the show is on view, open to the public for viewing the art safely with Covid precautions, at Gallery 1988, 7308 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 and on display through the Gallery1988 website until September 18 2021.

[melomancy]

Kate Bush as the Sound Monster in Experiment IV (1986)

[retrostarwarsdaily]

Don’t Fool With Han Solo (#189): 1980 Topps The Empire Strikes Back