Retro a Go-Go
Who’s sick of the 70s revival? Me, for a start. If you want to wear platforms and listen to Jamiroquai, go ahead, but I think fashion will eventually tire of the 70s — what we need is an 80s revival. Ha ha, you can laugh, but even though the current attitude to that decade is negative, check out recent music. Cyndi Lauper... oops, I mean her offspring, Donna Lewis, went ballistic with ‘I Love You, Always
Forever’ last year, there have been successful covers of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, ‘99 Luft Balloons’, as well as a partial cover of ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’.
Michael Jackson, Prince, and Madonna are still popular, while the ‘big four’ of thrash metal during the 80s — Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax, are still alive and well, even if some of them have ‘sold out’. Despite this, the hip ‘kids’ all say, “The 80s was shit. It was all bubblegum and glam.” Wrong! What the ‘kids’ fail to understand is, that rap, industrial, thrash, techno, metal/rap, even grunge, were genres that emerged during the 80s. For example, Ministry have been going since 1981 — scary but true. But why this support for the 80s?, you might ask. It’s simple. By showing my respect in 1997, I will have a good laugh when all the fashion magazines fall over themselves around 2002 to give us 80s fashion, 80s hairstyles, blah blah. By then people will be wearing stonewash Levi’s and listening t 0... Wham! I can hardly wait. Alf, Gisborne.
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Rip It Up, Issue 235, 1 March 1997, Page 8
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