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Y'all are too young to be acting like these were classic times, I mean some one born in 1980 is only in their early 30s, that's still young in my book. I would agree with you when you made that comment about pedophilia if you were a kid from the 40s or 50s, I'm a kid of the 50s, but definitely not the 80s or 90s! Things started to get more sinful and dangerous in the 60s, but in the 80s the phrase "sex sells" that Madonna stated changed the music into something truly vulgar, I mean have you seen her 1990 music video justify my love with topless women, at least Miley covered up! Plus about pedophilia, don't you remember the accusations about Michael jackson, not saying they were true but it was disturbing for sure, espicially since I grew up in a time when something like that was unheard of! The 60s is when people became paranoid and that's when our neighbors started to keep doors locked! Plus vulgar shows like family guy are the result of kids who grew in that era! Point is yes I'm sure the 80s and 90s provided great childhoods, all childhoods are great, but the 80s and 90s were defintely not safe times were everyone trusted each other, plus most pop stars today were born then, so in my opinion anyone born between 1980 until today are the laziest ever, you kids of the 80s and 90s enjoyed MTV, video games, mindless entertainment, and early Internet, usenet, remember that!
I agree with you about the values of today, popular culture is garbage and morals are shot. Each decade has gotten worse than the previous etc. The suggestion of when it started is an interesting one. Looking at it from a historical point of view, I think we can go back through the 20th century and find the advance of moral decay and technological advancement goes hand and hand. The automobile made it possible for young people to have more freedom, hence we get the "roaring twenties", flappers, booze parties etc. The TV needs no explanation as to how it harmed our society as far as moral standards go. In the 50s the baby boom generation was raised in an era of unprecedented prosperity. The generation was also so large that it became dominant and impossible to control. Their youthful attitude of rebellion manifested itself in the mass moral decay of the 60s. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, we all know the mantra the boomers lived by in the 60s. The 70s and 80s in my opinion were a kind of time out for America as the nation digested the mass changes brought about in the 60s and early 70s. The nineties saw the boomers children come of age and they brought us even more social change, music became vulgar and even violent. Political correctness and socialism began to invade American life. The 00s and 10's have advanced the PC, social liberalism and socialism to a point un imaginable just 20 years ago. Todays youth feel entitled and are self absorbed. Whos fault is it??? The baby boomers and generation X raised these kids, so I guess its our fault. So sad to see the country like it is today. I am only in my 40s but so much has declined since I was a child.
Born in the early 70s and I would have to pick the 80s hand down. Come on, that's easy. I was in school in those days and my only responsibilities then were to stay awake in class, the occasional house chores, eat, sleep, play Atari games, hang out with friends, perfect my break dancing moves, mischief, play ball at the local basketball courts, throw deep Nerf football bombs, skateboarding, Pac-Man at the local arcade, MTV, and be home in time to watch the Knight Rider on tv. Life was bliss then. I like the 1990s too. Who doesn't enjoy being in their 20s and being independent from their parents?
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Originally Posted by temazepam
Oddly enough, many of todays 20somethings live with their parents. Yuck.
In my early twenties once I graduated college and got a good job, I couldn't wait to move out of my mother's house where I could have stayed forever as long as I was going to college or had a job.
But then it appears being born in 62 I am a decade or two older than most of the posters in this thread
Y'all are too young to be acting like these were classic times, I mean some one born in 1980 is only in their early 30s, that's still young in my book. I would agree with you when you made that comment about pedophilia if you were a kid from the 40s or 50s, I'm a kid of the 50s, but definitely not the 80s or 90s! Things started to get more sinful and dangerous in the 60s, but in the 80s the phrase "sex sells" that Madonna stated changed the music into something truly vulgar.
I advertising, it has always been "SEX SELLS" the kool-aid is just bottled differently now.
I don't miss the 80s since they were too comformist for me
and thanx God, since I was born in 1976 I really lived them only in the last years (the worst imho ahaha)
but I do miss a lot the 90s, the years of high school and college, great music, new technological gadgets popping up everywhere (cellphones, virtual reality, internet), no more cold war
still large opportunities for the working class sons in schools, jobs, you know
that was the last happy decade
broken down:
1990-95 best years
1992-94 even better
1993 perfect
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I was born in 1975 and while the 90s are very dear to me too, the 80s win hands down. The 80s was the last decade with some level of innocence to it in my opinion. It was before the internet so the world wasn't drenched in pornography, identity theft and cyber bullying. There was no social media so you didn't really ever encounter the mean sides of people. And if you had a problem with somebody you could just engage in a break dancing battle to work it out (lol). It was before reality shows, and popular culture was much kinder, morality-based (as far as characters doing the right thing and the good guys and girls winning), and more family- friendly. It seemed like people still had class and kept vulgar things out of the media and cared about protecting the minds of children. And there was so much variety in popular music. All the legends of the 60s and 70s were still on the charts, classic rock was still going strong all while new wave and hip hop were getting popular so it had a retro and modern vibe at the same time, something for everybody. You could literally watch MTV all day without changing the station. You'd turn on your television and see some unforgettable video like Need You Tonight by INXS or Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns n Roses and know that all your friends were watching it too so there were more shared cultural experiences. And there were all kinds of charity and kindness promoting global events like We Are the World, Hands Across America, Live Aid, Farm Aid, etc... It was before tabloid culture like TMZ, Hard Copy and all that so you didn't have a bunch of people making money off other people's misery and promoting gossip. It was before Jerry Springer and all the nasty talk shows. And you had to actually have talent or an artistic vision to be famous back then. Think of it this way, the most risque pop star we had was Madonna and all her videos from the 80s feature her fully-dressed and look tame by today's standards and no other female artists were copy-catting her, they all wanted to have their own unique style. I don't understand people who think the 80s were conformist. In the 90s it was more about wearing a flannel shirt uniform. In the 80s you could walk around with anime character new wave hair and wear the craziest clothes as if it was Halloween everyday and people would just assume you were into music and not laugh at you. But maybe it was not like that for people who lived in small towns, but where I lived anything went for style. And there were happy, bright colors everywhere and pop culture was centered around music. And there was so much entertainment for parents and kids to enjoy together like the Star Wars movies, ET, Ghost Busters, Back to the Future, the Indiana Jones movies. Drive-in movies, amusement parks and beaches were full and nobody was ignoring you while they tapped on their phones. And everybody seemed so excited about every little fad or trend, whether it be a World Premier Video on MTV, or getting an Atari system, or solving the Rubick's Cube, people just seemed so much more happy, upbeat and optimistic. And it was more acceptable to do silly things like turn up your collar, wear your hair big or wear your sunglasses indoors, lol. And there was a big obsession and optimism about the future and robots and technology, people thought the "future world" was going to be like Epcot Center in Disney World (which of course was opened in the 80s). The Spaceship Earth ride used to play this song called "Tomorrow's Child" which sums up how positively the 80s viewed the future. That reminds me Marty McFly's coming this year, lol. When I say, "those were the days", I really mean it. The 70s were good too I was just too young to remember them as well. For all you 90s fans, don't get me wrong, that was a great decade too and I'm a big Nirvana fan, but after Kurt died the 90s kind of lost its moral compass. I think the 80s had a sweetness and wholesomeness to it that the 90s lost around the time that the internet got big and MTV was sold to Viacom. But the 90s too seemed more innocent and kinder days compared to now. Funny thing is we could make now the best decade ever if people actually decided that being mean on the internet is over-rated, and started using the internet for positive purposes instead. We need to raise humanity's vibe. It's like that Super Bowl commercial said, "The world is what you make it." Oh and one more thing, it's really popular now to hate on young people or blame this generation or that generation for the state of the world today. In my opinion the internet made humanity more vulgar. It is like a Pandora's box that was opened. And old school parents are supposed to figure out how to block new school kids from seeing all the things they are seeing? And it killed our entertainment industry and attention spans and so now greedy media people think the only things that will hold our attention are trash like reality shows and pop stars shaking their butts in our faces. So technology and greed are too be blamed. And yes music subject matter got darker in the 90s but it was because for awhile people thought that you could have music that portrayed the bad guy's point of view just like you have Westerns with good cowboys and bad cowboys. But nowadays people take things so literally and want to take it on as a lifestyle so we should really shift music away from that. So can we stop with this generation bashing as if all people from one era think the same and start holding the media powerhouses and websites that promote vulgarity accountable instead? Because if you think recent generations introduced negative aspects of life into the mainstream, you are forgetting that the Greatest Generation raised the kids who raised those kids who raised those kids, etc... And if you think things were so innocent until the 1960s, then you've never heard of 1920s petting-party flappers, or 1930s glorification of murdering gangsters as heroes or 1950s bennie-popping beatniks. And you probably idealize the Victorian age when just about every man had a prostitute on the side. Sorry for going off on that tangent but come on now... My point is every decade has it's good and bad and that everything wasn't super-sweet pre 60s and there are plenty of good kids now. It's better to look at it as decades and not generations, because it's less personal. A lot of other factors go into what makes a decade good or bad other than the generation that is young at the time, especially since older generations usually create their media and entertainment and are usually the ones to blame. Greedy, vulgar people come in all ages and generations.
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I was born in 1975 and while the 90s are very dear to me too, the 80s win hands down. The 80s was the last decade with some level of innocence to it in my opinion. It was before the internet so the world wasn't drenched in pornography, identity theft and cyber bullying. There was no social media so you didn't really ever encounter the mean sides of people. And if you had a problem with somebody you could just engage in a break dancing battle to work it out (lol). It was before reality shows, and popular culture was much kinder, morality-based (as far as characters doing the right thing and the good guys and girls winning), and more family- friendly. It seemed like people still had class and kept vulgar things out of the media and cared about protecting the minds of children. And there was so much variety in popular . All the legends of the 60s and 70s were still on the charts, classic rock was still going strong all while new wave and hip hop were getting popular so it had a retro and modern vibe at the same time, something for everybody. You could literally watch MTV all day without changing the station. You'd turn on your television and see some unforgettable video like Need You Tonight by INXS or Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns n Roses and know that all your friends were watching it too so there were more shared cultural experiences. And there were all kinds of charity and kindness promoting global events like We Are the World, Hands Across America, Live Aid, Farm Aid, etc... It was before tabloid culture like TMZ, Hard Copy and all that so you didn't have a bunch of people making money off other people's misery and promoting gossip. It was before Jerry Springer and all the nasty talk shows. And you had to actually have talent or an artistic vision to be famous back then. Think of it this way, the most risque pop star we had was Madonna and all her videos from the 80s feature her fully-dressed and look tame by today's standards and no other female artists were copy-catting her, they all wanted to have their own unique style. I don't understand people who think the 80s were conformist. In the 90s it was more about wearing a flannel shirt uniform. In the 80s you could walk around with anime character new wave hair and wear the craziest clothes as if it was Halloween everyday and people would just assume you were into music and not laugh at you. But maybe it was not like that for people who lived in small towns, but where I lived anything went for style. And there were happy, bright colors everywhere and pop culture was centered around music. And there was so much entertainment for parents and kids to enjoy together like the Star Wars movies, ET, Ghost Busters, Back to the Future, the Indiana Jones movies. Drive-in movies, amusement parks and beaches were full and nobody was ignoring you while they tapped on their phones. And everybody seemed so excited about every little fad or trend, whether it be a World Premier Video on MTV, or getting an Atari system, or solving the Rubick's Cube, people just seemed so much more happy, upbeat and optimistic. And it was more acceptable to do silly things like turn up your collar, wear your hair big or wear your sunglasses indoors, lol. And there was a big obsession and optimism about the future and robots and technology, people thought the "future world" was going to be like Epcot Center in Disney World (which of course was opened in the 80s). The Spaceship Earth ride used to play this song called "Tomorrow's Child" which sums up how positively the 80s viewed the future. That reminds me Marty McFly's coming this year, lol. When I say, "those were the days", I really mean it. The 70s were good too I was just too young to remember them as well. For all you 90s fans, don't get me wrong, that was a great decade too and I'm a big Nirvana fan, but after Kurt died the 90s kind of lost its moral compass. I think the 80s had a sweetness and wholesomeness to it that the 90s lost around the time that the internet got big and MTV was sold to Viacom. But the 90s too seemed more innocent and kinder days compared to now. Funny thing is we could make now the best decade ever if people actually decided that being mean on the internet is over-rated, and started using the internet for positive purposes instead. We need to raise humanity's vibe. It's like that Super Bowl commercial said, "The world is what you make it." Oh and one more thing, it's really popular now to hate on young people or blame this generation or that generation for the state of the world today. In my opinion the internet made humanity more vulgar. It is like a Pandora's box that was opened. And old school parents are supposed to figure out how to block new school kids from seeing all the things they are seeing? And it killed our entertainment industry and attention spans and so now greedy media people think the only things that will hold our attention are trash like reality shows and pop stars shaking their butts in our faces. So technology and greed are too be blamed. And yes music subject matter got darker in the 90s but it was because for awhile people thought that you could have music that portrayed the bad guy's point of view just like you have Westerns with good cowboys and bad cowboys. But nowadays people take things so literally and want to take it on as a lifestyle so we should really shift music away from that. So can we stop with this generation bashing as if all people from one era think the same and start holding the media powerhouses and websites that promote vulgarity accountable instead? Because if you think recent generations introduced negative aspects of life into the mainstream, you are forgetting that the Greatest Generation raised the kids who raised those kids who raised those kids, etc... And if you think things were so innocent until the 1960s, then you've never heard of 1920s petting-party flappers, or 1930s glorification of murdering gangsters as heroes or 1950s bennie-popping beatniks. And you probably idealize the Victorian age when just about every man had a prostitute on the side. Sorry for going off on that tangent but come on now... My point is every decade has it's good and bad and that everything wasn't super-sweet pre 60s and there are plenty of good kids now. It's better to look at it as decades and not generations, because it's less personal. A lot of other factors go into what makes a decade good or bad other than the generation that is young at the time, especially since older generations usually create their media and entertainment and are usually the ones to blame. Greedy, vulgar people come in all ages and generations.
for me the 90's was the beginning of the end of our culture as we know it.
I see a lot of late 70s-born people claiming themselves as 90s kids, which is strange to me...
Anyways, I'm curious to those that were actually born in 1970, do they consider themselves 70s kids, or 80s kids? Same with 1980 borns, 80s or 90s kids
I see a lot of late 70s-born people claiming themselves as 90s kids, which is strange to me...
Anyways, I'm curious to those that were actually born in 1970, do they consider themselves 70s kids, or 80s kids? Same with 1980 borns, 80s or 90s kids
I was born in 1976. I think of myself as 90s. I was 14 went when the decade began, and 24 when it ended. My sister, who is ten years older than me, is pretty 80s.
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Oh and one more thing, it's really popular now to hate on young people or blame this generation or that generation for the state of the world today. In my opinion the internet made humanity more vulgar. It is like a Pandora's box that was opened. And old school parents are supposed to figure out how to block new school kids from seeing all the things they are seeing? And it killed our entertainment industry and attention spans and so now greedy media people think the only things that will hold our attention are trash like reality shows and pop stars shaking their butts in our faces. So technology and greed are too be blamed. And yes music subject matter got darker in the 90s but it was because for awhile people thought that you could have music that portrayed the bad guy's point of view just like you have Westerns with good cowboys and bad cowboys. But nowadays people take things so literally and want to take it on as a lifestyle so we should really shift music away from that. So can we stop with this generation bashing as if all people from one era think the same and start holding the media powerhouses and websites that promote vulgarity accountable instead? Because if you think recent generations introduced negative aspects of life into the mainstream, you are forgetting that the Greatest Generation raised the kids who raised those kids who raised those kids, etc... And if you think things were so innocent until the 1960s, then you've never heard of 1920s petting-party flappers, or 1930s glorification of murdering gangsters as heroes or 1950s bennie-popping beatniks. And you probably idealize the Victorian age when just about every man had a prostitute on the side. Sorry for going off on that tangent but come on now... My point is every decade has it's good and bad and that everything wasn't super-sweet pre 60s and there are plenty of good kids now. It's better to look at it as decades and not generations, because it's less personal. A lot of other factors go into what makes a decade good or bad other than the generation that is young at the time, especially since older generations usually create their media and entertainment and are usually the ones to blame. Greedy, vulgar people come in all ages and generations.