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Bring Back The ’80s!

By Angela | 14 May, 2007

We live in an age of technology that brings us cool new gadgets to play with and blow our budgets on. But do you remember growing up when great music and even cooler cartoons surrounded us? Kids these days don’t know what they’re missing. Amen to being an ’80s baby!

Bring back the days of The Smurfs, Carebears, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and My Little Pony. Cartoons of the ’80s were exciting, entertaining, and somewhat educative. Nowadays, what do kids have? Barney, The Wiggles, and all the other crap cartoons and kids shows cannot compete with the ’80s cartoons. Our ’80s idols have made a comeback in fashion. Retro clothes everywhere have pictures of our Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Little Miss Sunshine, and Rainbow Brite, who once filled our living rooms. These are cartoons that will be always remembered. They are the illustrations for our life stories.

Those were the days when music was really about something, when the lyrics held a story and the beat was something pleasing to the ear. Now are the days when our music no longer seems to be the art form it once was.

Once music was listened to on vinyl records with over-sized headphones, and songs outlasted the three minute norm of today. Songs were about something more meaningful than drugs, money, and who’s got “beef” with whom.

Songs from the ’60s, ’70s, and especially the ’80s are ones that have not been forgotten. They have kept a place in our hearts. Being an ’80s baby myself, I grew up in a house filled with great music such as the likes of Elton John, Neil Diamond, Sting, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd. These were artists who had an effect on the world. 50 Cent and the Pussycat Dolls are not going down in history, nor are they leaving us with any memorable songs that we will want to keep listening to in twenty, or even ten years from now.

Kids growing up in the ’80s ran around listening to songs like ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ and ‘Tiny Dancer’, wearing scrunchies and tie-dyed t-shirts.

Nowadays, they’re listening to ‘Don’t Cha’ on their iPods and texting on their cellphones, trying to be a whole lot older than they are.

Bring back the ’80s, when kids weren’t afraid to be kids, when we had a whole damn lot better taste in cartoons and when music meant something more than just a way for one rapper to “diss” another rapper. Bring back the ’80s!

Love, The ’80s Baby xx