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There's been rather a lot of 80's nostalgia in the U.S. lately, FWIW. It's now officially Past enough to be Retro. There's been a lot of "You Know You Grew Up In The Eighties If..." pseudo-pride going around (I get the odd splash of it, myself). I've talked to several teenagers who have lamented being born too late, after "all the cool Eighties shit" happened.
In the U.S., I think the Eighties are popularly viewed, in rose-tinted hindsight, as a Big Exciting Decade when everything was Big and Bold and Wonderful, from the hair to the arena rock shows. It's long ago enough that some of the embarrassment has worn off, and even the ironic reclamation of the decade is giving way to "genuine" retro-cool.
I could be talking garbage, though - my finger is not always quite on the pulse of fashion.
I suspect there might possibly be a US/UK split here, too - Thatcher and Reagan were both conservative gargoyles, but I think a lot of Americans (and not just Republicans) remember him (and his era) fondly. Regardless of what he actually said or did to people, he had a good TV smile and when the cameras were on him, he became everyone's ol' grampa. Thatcher, on the other hand, was genuinely frightening. I think (from what I've read, at least - someone correct/confirm/elaborate?) that people in the UK associate the Plastic Decade with more day-to-day unpleasantness than people in the US, speaking very broadly. Again, I may be speaking utter garbage. |
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