I dare you to watch it and not cry and long for those days. :) I wish that kids today could know that feeling of fun, hope and inspiration instead of all the hate and division that they are beaten down with today.
Beauty! Great to hear some upbeat and optimistic '80s music!
I was 18 in '89, and you're right... The world had a much different vibe then. I don't think it's just nostalgia talking either. It did feel like all you had to do was finish school, and start your journey of growing up and exploring your future - full of opportunities! I look at my own kids and their friends, and the world they are facing... So much negativity, animosity, social rules... so constrained. It's no wonder so many of them seem listless and demoralized. :(
Agreed, I feel sorry for young people today, they are told they are either bad or oppressed for their skin color, that their very existence is killing the planet, that they may be in the wrong body, and that everyone else hates them for their skin color, gender, sexual preference, or some other reason over which they have no control. It is malevolent and cruel to do this to children.
"I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth." ~ Mary Griffith
"What's done to children, they will do to society." ~Karl A. Menninger
"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind." ~Patrick Rothfuss
Me too. Just look around, you can already see where it is going.
"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children." ~George Orwell
Yes, it has always freaked me out just how well Orwell saw what was coming. The Thought Police always seemed a little far-fetched to me, but holy crap, it's starting to seem perfectly plausible now!
For a while there - around the turn of the century - I thought Huxley had it more right. While society definitely shows characteristics of his vision also, Orwell certainly seems to be taking the lead!
BTW, have you seen the video of James Lindsay addressing the EU? I found it to be the most cogent and crystallizing analysis of the present insanity - where it comes from, and how it propagates. Highly recommended.
It’s amazing how music just instantly takes you back. Because I have older siblings, there are songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s that bring me to tears, but only those from the ‘80s make me cry for our country.
I can't listen to this song because it reminds me of being a very young child who thought my parents would live forever. My paternal cousin introduced me to Belinda's album and it brings to mind all those days out with my father's family. It never occurred to me that my Dad would pass away when I was a teenager or that I was only temporarily suspended in a cocoon of safety and innocence. As great as my parents were, I was catapulted straight from extreme innocence to "the real world" when my father died. So this song just makes me sad. I cry when I hear it now.
I maintain that, objectively, the 1960s and the 1980s were the best decades for Top-40 singles.
I spent many happy hours listening to the Weekly Top 40 in my bedroom, with either Kasey Kasem or Rick Dees.
After I hit high school I started listening to bands like The Cure and Jane’s Addiction and never looked back. I lost touch with the Top 40. Part of that is just what happens as you age, but part of me believes that, to the extent one can quantify such things, 1980s pop music was just extraordinarily good.
Thanks for the memory, I forgot how pretty she was. Whenever I feel nostalgic for the 80s I watch this short video --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0eflYLkI4A
I dare you to watch it and not cry and long for those days. :) I wish that kids today could know that feeling of fun, hope and inspiration instead of all the hate and division that they are beaten down with today.
Already crying.
It *was* a good time to be a kid.
We were so young, so beautiful, so hopeful back then😌
Gets me right in the heart, too.
Yes. Immediate tears.
Beauty! Great to hear some upbeat and optimistic '80s music!
I was 18 in '89, and you're right... The world had a much different vibe then. I don't think it's just nostalgia talking either. It did feel like all you had to do was finish school, and start your journey of growing up and exploring your future - full of opportunities! I look at my own kids and their friends, and the world they are facing... So much negativity, animosity, social rules... so constrained. It's no wonder so many of them seem listless and demoralized. :(
Agreed, I feel sorry for young people today, they are told they are either bad or oppressed for their skin color, that their very existence is killing the planet, that they may be in the wrong body, and that everyone else hates them for their skin color, gender, sexual preference, or some other reason over which they have no control. It is malevolent and cruel to do this to children.
"I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth." ~ Mary Griffith
"What's done to children, they will do to society." ~Karl A. Menninger
"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind." ~Patrick Rothfuss
Great quotes, but the second one scares the Hell out of me! :-)
Me too. Just look around, you can already see where it is going.
"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children." ~George Orwell
Yes, it has always freaked me out just how well Orwell saw what was coming. The Thought Police always seemed a little far-fetched to me, but holy crap, it's starting to seem perfectly plausible now!
For a while there - around the turn of the century - I thought Huxley had it more right. While society definitely shows characteristics of his vision also, Orwell certainly seems to be taking the lead!
BTW, have you seen the video of James Lindsay addressing the EU? I found it to be the most cogent and crystallizing analysis of the present insanity - where it comes from, and how it propagates. Highly recommended.
I agree, we are in a blend of Brave New World and 1984, they were both partially right. They both had insights into human nature.
I will look up the James Lindsay video. :)
James Lindsay at European Parliament - Woke Conference
https://youtu.be/lc0684V2ej8
I love that song. I have a problem, though. When I sing it in my head, it always morphs into this. 🤔❓️
🎶Take my hand.
Tell me, what are you feeling.
Understand,
This is just the beginning.
...running just as fast as we can,
Holding on to one another's hand...🎵
Dude, that's great!
Happens to me too with some songs.
Ha! Any in particular?
God, she's beautiful.
I may be gay, but I've had many "crushes" on pretty women who sing.
Susanna Hoffs, Linda Ronstadt, Belinda Carlisle.
1989:
https://youtu.be/OOeObuVnaJ8
I was a part of a rhythm nation.
Though no Janet Jackson album will equal the pop engineering perfection of Control.
Even the pauses in that one are perfect.
Correct. The beat timing stays consistent across the whole album down to the goddamned empty groove between songs. It's amazing.
My workout playlist still has lots of Janet. In fact, almost all of it is from the last century. :)
(Janet Jackson; Escapade)
It’s amazing how music just instantly takes you back. Because I have older siblings, there are songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s that bring me to tears, but only those from the ‘80s make me cry for our country.
I can't listen to this song because it reminds me of being a very young child who thought my parents would live forever. My paternal cousin introduced me to Belinda's album and it brings to mind all those days out with my father's family. It never occurred to me that my Dad would pass away when I was a teenager or that I was only temporarily suspended in a cocoon of safety and innocence. As great as my parents were, I was catapulted straight from extreme innocence to "the real world" when my father died. So this song just makes me sad. I cry when I hear it now.
I must be nearly exactly the same age as you.
I maintain that, objectively, the 1960s and the 1980s were the best decades for Top-40 singles.
I spent many happy hours listening to the Weekly Top 40 in my bedroom, with either Kasey Kasem or Rick Dees.
After I hit high school I started listening to bands like The Cure and Jane’s Addiction and never looked back. I lost touch with the Top 40. Part of that is just what happens as you age, but part of me believes that, to the extent one can quantify such things, 1980s pop music was just extraordinarily good.
Correct!