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Cheesy-yet-earnest ’80s music became cool again
Don't try to pinpoint the date
Echo and the Bunnymen from their 1981 album Heaven Up Here
Dear Hipster: I was listening to 91X the other day and I heard “Everything Now,” by Arcade Fire, and I thought for a second there was some previously unreleased Duran Duran tune. In a way that’s high praise (because Duran Duran was legitimately awesome); but why does new music sound so much like ’80s music? — Dennis
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Arcade Fire
"Everything Now"
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Duran Duran
"Ordinary World"
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Men at Work
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Echo and the Bunnymen
These days, the 1980s are so long ago that hipsters, musicians, and hipster musicians can nonironically evoke the classic sounds of Men at Work or Echo and the Bunnymen. The cool part of this whole phenomenon is that it just sort of happened. At some point, it was like somebody somewhere flipped a switch and the cheesy-yet-earnest sensibility of ’80s pop music became cool again. Pinpointing the exact date when this occurred is impossible because it doesn’t work that way. Cool just becomes.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Cheesy-yet-earnest ’80s music became cool again
Don't try to pinpoint the date
Cheesy-yet-earnest ’80s music became cool again
Don't try to pinpoint the date
Echo and the Bunnymen from their 1981 album Heaven Up Here
Dear Hipster: I was listening to 91X the other day and I heard “Everything Now,” by Arcade Fire, and I thought for a second there was some previously unreleased Duran Duran tune. In a way that’s high praise (because Duran Duran was legitimately awesome); but why does new music sound so much like ’80s music? — Dennis
Video:
Arcade Fire
"Everything Now"
Video:
Duran Duran
"Ordinary World"
Video:
Men at Work
Video:
Echo and the Bunnymen
These days, the 1980s are so long ago that hipsters, musicians, and hipster musicians can nonironically evoke the classic sounds of Men at Work or Echo and the Bunnymen. The cool part of this whole phenomenon is that it just sort of happened. At some point, it was like somebody somewhere flipped a switch and the cheesy-yet-earnest sensibility of ’80s pop music became cool again. Pinpointing the exact date when this occurred is impossible because it doesn’t work that way. Cool just becomes.
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