Were the 80's really this bad?

Yes, they were that bad.

 

Not as bad as the 70's though...the decade that fashion forgot.

 

I like how the guys keep flexing. not gay at all! (!)

 

Thanks for the laugh! I'm glad I don't remember any of the '80's. I wonder what people are going to (including ourselves) look back on and laugh at in another 30 years from now.

 

Luckily for me I only had to endure 25 months of the 80s but the early 90s were just as bad.

 

I feel exhausted just watching that. Where do they get their energy, cocaine was popular in the 80s right?! Athletes they certainly are!

Its funny, we complain about the likes of modern trends like twerking and hip hop videos for objectifying women, but damn those women's outfits are revealing!

On a side note, I really hate myself for saying this but the music is incredibly catchy. Almost makes me want to do rhythmic starjumps and high kicks....almost.

 

Twenty years later, on EC, we'll see this thread : "Were the 10's that bad?"

Yeah, the 80s were "that bad" but at least they were fun. 90s were just a depression, from beginning to end : Think about Nirvana, The Verve, Radiohead... Nobody wrote any song named "celebration" during the 90s.

I loved that video

 

Never had personal experience growing up in the '80s of course, but to hear people (primarily the boyfriend, who remains extraordinarily nostalgic about his childhood in the '90s) go on about it is to think that everyone was walking past shuttered, foreclosed office buildings, in tight aerobics clothing all while swimming through a cloud of cocaine dust.

 

no way the early 90s were sweet.if you wanted to look cool all you needed to do was shop at your granddads closet.

 

Thank God I was born when it was ending and I spent most of the last years of the 80's as a baby and can't remember a thing about it .

 

And I know somebody from 2044 is going to see a video of Nicki Minaj and decide that the 2010s were really that bad.

 

The opening of the 1986 National Aerobic Championship is probably the most "80's" thing I have ever seen, I wonder what this decade will be remembered for...
I hope it isn't spandex though!

 

No more shall be said.

 

The metal was good, very good.

 

Of course there was this in the '80's (shoo the children away before watching!)

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^This.

 

David Lee Roth summed up the 80s by saying "That was the decade that SMILED. The music SMILED, the fashion SMILED, everything SMILED." I think that sums it up pretty well.

The 80s were my 10-to-20-year-old range, and as such, it's tough to separate my youthful nostalgia from How Things Actually Were. I could easily pull up a bunch of really terrible stuff from the last few years to show how awful the Terrible Teens were. The fact is - yes, a bunch of us did aerobics in the 80s, but I'm guessing more than 99.9% of us had no idea that "competitive aerobics" was a thing, even back then.

Lex