Young people commenting on how they want to have lived in the 80s, other eras

[ookii]

80s pop has aged well. I just think people sometimes get false impressions on how popular their genre was in previous decades. You see it in the youtube comments for all sorts of 80s songs - kids saying "I was born in the wrong decade" when in reality that's not what they were playing on the radio 99% of the time.

More like underground 80s music aged well. Not so much with the REO Speedwagons, the Poison's and Christopher Crosses' that were very main stream in the 80s

 

[Alphaboy]

Everyone over-idealizes other generations. On YouTube you can find these comments everywhere! Click on a Beatles song and you'll see "oH mY GoD, i'M nOt LiEk tEh oThEr kIdS mY aGe, i GrEw uP iN tHe wRoNg eRa!"

Of course every time period has some aspects that are better and some aspects that are worse.

Also...

Bill Maher: "We didn't have any racial issues because there was only one race living there"

 

[therealdope]

Getting a peek at 2020 Val Kilmer will be a good life lesson for her.

Do you know his back story of why he disappeared?

 

[Uber_Noober]

Born in 83, I had an awesome childhood/teenage years.

I was stationed in Korea in 1983, mind blown.

 

[ineverpost]

In the 1980s, if you held a job of almost any kind you could own a house. Not everyone went to college but that's because you didn't need a bachelor degree to flip burgers back then. Professional employers were loyal and layoffs were generally avoided if possible. Now, you could work 80+ hours a week in a white collar job and in certain areas, barely afford your rent. You could lose your job at any moment. If you don't have health insurance, a medical event could bankrupt you and put you on the streets. It is night and day.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Sounds paradoxical but both can be true.

The kids in the 80's likely grew up with parents with less money, generally, they had less resources in school, less options for play, less opportunities to travel, etc, etc but at the same time they had very happy childhoods, that were mostly spent out doors and anxiety free, as they made the most with the little resources they had.

Kids later, despite having more opportunity or everything better or more available, are anxiety riddled and generally a lot less happy.

True enough man, I think I agree. Though a lot of is the typical "bash the younger generation" that exists for some reason, I guess mainly to make the older people feel superior. Part of that is jealousy as well, fuck I'd love to be 18 again.

 

[lostdog000]

most youngies today couldnt live without cell phones and social media.


really the only thing i liked better about previous decades was smaller populations, less traffic, and of course, me being younger.

 

[HereticBD]

They want to live in the cinematic version of the 80's.

All the neon, none of the crack epidemic.

 

[Simian Raticus]

I wouldn't wanna be growing up in today's world tbh.

Older people have a pretty condescending attitude towards today's kids. Like they're supposed to stfu and not complain because they have iphones and shit, as if those types of things are the key to a good life.

I feel pretty fortunate to have grown up in the 80s and 90s. I feel like that was a sweet spot where we had a lot of cool shit, but things hadn't gotten too crazy yet.

Plus, we were still under the stewardship of my grandparents generation, who seem to the last non-selfish generation, who cared about what the world would be after they're gone.

 

[PlayswellwithLawnDarts]

Kids have such romanticized and unrealistic views of the past. I lived through the 80's and fucking hated it. <Lmaoo>

Take away Cell Phones, Tablets and the Internet.
A broken shell of a human in less time than it takes my Keurig to brew Coffee.

 

[Milgrim]

Do you know his back story of why he disappeared?

I do not.

 

[therealdope]

They want to live in the cinematic version of the 80's.

All the neon, none of the crack epidemic.

... or AIDS, decaying inner cities, inept policing, smoking in restaurants and clubs, smoking on FUCKING PLANES!!!!

Ya, I'm a child of the 80s and it was a great time to grow up but literally everything is better now, except for NCAA basketball.

 

[therealdope]

the new generation doesn't know how hard it was to get your hands on p00n as a teen before the Internet.

You literally had to go hunting in the woods to find discarded porn magazines.

 

[Otto!]

Born in the 60s and yeah, the 80s were awesome.

 

[TidWell]

I've been seeing a lot of comments on Youtube lately, especially on 1980s, and older eras, from very young people who say they would have wanted to have grown up in that generation instead.

I'm not sure what's going on. I'm thinking kids today have grown up with their faces in front of screens and have missed out on what childhood was like back then.

Here's Maher talking about when he was a kid. Sounds pretty awesome minus the drilling into him part

Its true the 80s and early 90s were awesome.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Born in the 60s and yeah, the 80s were awesome.

 

[RedFoxOne]

90's kid.

Getting dragged to Sunday mass when I really wanted to watch the NBA on NBC Triple header....The pain was real! I ain't going back!

I do miss that folklore/hearsay/myth of the 80's/90's that has since gone extinct due to social media...

"There's a grade 8 kid up by Woodlands who can dunk." "Bullshit, no way!" *Insert name* WAS THERE! HE SAW IT!"

 

[Otto!]

I remember watching this!

 

[Tireur889]

I was born in 85. I used to have ghosterbusters toys and
Have alot music from the eighties embedded in my subconscious. I still have alot of fond memories growing
In the nineties with Jurassic park , Nickelodeon(ren and stimpy, Doug, are you afraid of the dark.) I sometimes wonder if Hollywood and the music industry are running out of new ideas
And that is part of the reason why retro from the '80s and '90s have become so popular.

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

The pop music from the 80's has aged well, to be honest. Without the screens, this younger generation does have a little bit of the 80's in it. I have 3 in high school. The screens, while showing too much, at the same time also create a certain level of naivete because the kids aren't getting outside and experiencing as much. This young generation is more like 80's than 90's.. Hollyweird is too slow to catch up and capitalize on it. If I worked in that town I would have created marketing around the concept.

No it wasn't. You only think this because you are fondly remembering only the very best songs from that era- 99% of it was unlistenable trash, just like music today. This is how it's always been.
Just a random sampling of hits from 1980: