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If you were a teenager in 1983, I have one question for you: what were you wearing? Or, just let me see a picture. I'll tell you in an instant what music you were listening to. Long hair, concert T-shirt, jeans and Vans? You probably weren't much into Depeche Mode. Wearing a lot of PURPLE?? Let me guess...
But fashion wasn't just an expression of musical taste. It was identity. Music was fashion, and vice-versa. MTV put every Pop artist on television. Teenagers fed off the styles they saw in videos and TV shows, and the media just as often stole their looks from kids on the street.
And then there was the music. The change in Pop was the most dramatic shift since the late Sixties. The Eighties introduced lots of unmistakeably new sounds: synthesizer and techno beats, teeny-bopper girl rock, a hot new R&B, the second British Invasion, and Heavy Metal. A lot of it was different, but very bad. A lot of it was good.
Here are the best, ready to wear:
Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (1981)
Bette Davis Eves - Kim Carnes (1981)
Tainted Love - Soft Cell (1982)
I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls (1982)
867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone (1982)
Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Go's (1983)
Little Red Corvette - Prince (1983)
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (1983)
Down Under - Men At Work (1983)
Photograph - Def Leppard (1983)
When Doves Cry - Prince (1984)
Pink Houses - John Cougar Mellencamp (1984)
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