Culture of the 1980’s As decades pass through time, the culture of people change. 10 years is a long enough time for opinions, style and arts to change popularity in people’s minds. The 1980’s was an exciting year that brought along new styles, new music, new technology and more for the people of their time to enjoy.
The fashion of the 80’s was all about bold colours, the size and experimentation. People often would express themselves through their clothing styles and try to make big fashion statements through what they were wearing. It was very common to see women wearing shoulder pads under their shirts, mesh tops, leg warmers, shirts with popped collars and any clothing with bright neon colours. Men would often wear cropped tops, popped
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Judd Nelson was a popular one who starred in The Breakfast Club, Making the Grade and From the Hip. Another one was Molly Ringwald who also starred in The Breakfast Club and other movies such as Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles. Michael J. Fox was very popular because he was the main character in the Back to the Future trilogy and Teen Wolf. Tom Cruise was another, famous for movies like Risky Business and Top Gun. Robin Williams was very popular for his movies such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Jumanji. Some other popular movie stars of the 80’s were Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Hanks. The music industry was also gaining a lot of popularity due to all the technology that offered so many new and cheaper ways to hear the latest hits such as CD’s and T.V channels. Some of the most popular singers were Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Dolly parton, Cyndi Lauper, Paula Abdul, Ozzy Osbourne and David Bowie. Music was taking new turn because they were now introducing more electronically made music with something called a synthesizer. The music was upbeat and dance-pop was a very popular genre of music people listened
The 1960s and 1970s was an influential time in history, especially in the music industry. Between these two decades many new music genres were created and legends that are still praised today were born. There are many similarities in the type of music that was listened to at these times but each decade is different and unique in their own way.
The 1980’s is one of the most interesting decades that was experienced in the United States. Dealing with the stock market, the coming up of new inventions, all the way to the types of music people listened to. During the 1980s, the only thing that made Americans be “Americans” was because of the things they were provided with. Many Americans had fun throughout the 1980s with materialistic, glamorous, and technological life styles; therefore there were different economical problems that Americans faced.
In comparing the sixties and the nineties, my first thought was how much popular culture has changed since then and how different society is today. The strange thing is, the more I tried to differentiate between them, the more similarities I found. Both the sixties and the nineties were about youth, creativity, free-thinking, and expression. With the nineties coming to a close and the popularity of anything ?retro," I decided to compare the fashions, people, music, and issues that defined pop culture in the 1960?s and its influence on pop culture in the 1990?s.
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Let’s start off with the basics. How different is clothing now compared to then? Denim. Anything and everything wearable could be made out of denim in the Seventies. Pants, shirts, vests, even shoes. Bell bottom pants were an enormous thing in the Seventies
The 1980s were a different time period. People start getting better ideas and those ideas were advancing history. A major thing that was part of the 1980s were vehicles. Vehicles were people's transportation. Vehicles were advancing at that time in the 80s some of the first production car were being introduced to fuel injection. Cars were starting to evolve and high horsepower started becoming a factor as well. Movies were another big part of the 80s because graphics and actors were becoming better.
that are considered traditional pop were very widely known within the culture during the 1950s
In 1981 MTV "Music Television" was introduced on cable television and revolutionized rock marketing. Just as FM radio had superseded the hit-oriented AM format, music videos, produced as mini-movie advertisements for songs, became essential to a performer's popularity. Early in the decade, the British group the Police was one of the first to combine a progressive sound with polished videos. The expense of producing videos and MTV's virtual monopoly made it difficult for experimental music to compete with the dance-pop sung by American artists like Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston, and Madonna, and the British groups Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Nevertheless, performers such as the Irish group U2 and the American group R.E.M. emerged from their underground roots to enjoy enormous success. Now a few of the new genres of the 80's.
In the 90’s, the concept of music was a huge explosion compared to previous years, though there were many more acts of creativity. Primarily, music played a huge part in society as apposed to other decades. Most well known from this time were the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime and Rage Against the Machine, just to name a few. These bands most defiantly showed the creativeness that America possessed and is proved by the amount of 90’s music that is still widespread. Another concept of creativeness was fashion. Two main forms of clothing came around that set America aside from the rest of the world. This was the beginning of jeans and flannel shirts. Having these pieces of clothing widespread throughout the country defiantly set America apart. Finally, pop culture in this era also showed our nations creativeness. Pokemon had stuck out the most from everything else. The production of millions of “baseball cards” with animated animals on them was a huge sensation for kids and teens across the country. The enjoyment of having a strong pull of creativeness in America was not a bad thing at all, yet a decade cannot always be perfect.
The swinging 60's were at their height. Women's hemlines were very short. Fashion in the 60's tended to encourage exhibitionism. Miniskirts, bold colors, and see through dresses were all geared to showing off women's bodies, and on rare occasion men's bodies. Gaudy accessories such as perspex rings and earrings and fold chain belts.
... Kiss. Kiss called attention and became popular through eccentric effects such as explosives, police lights, rocket-firing guitars, and bizarre make-up. The music scene was making a movement to a more flashy appearance rather than simply the music itself. This fit the culture that was stuck on the appearance of things and didn’t want to become too involved.
1970s fashion was varied and changed frequently, but always liked to shock - whether it
Television and movies were at its golden moments as majority of Tv shows and movies classics came from the 90s like the simpsons which is “The series currently holds the record for the longest-running prime-time sitcom in the US, running for 25 years since 1989, and becoming the longest-running program on FOX”(Wiki). American movie classics were born like Titanic, Forrest gump, Toys story, and The Matrix. Movies and Tv shows were amazing during this time but the “icing to the cake” of Entertainment came from videogames as gaming companies fought to get more support and purchase of their consoles and games as gaming became popular because of these games Super mario, Pokemon, Mortal Kombat, Sonic, Zelda and Tetris. Fashion of the 1990s was wild and colorful with crazy geometric shapes and If your clothes were not baggy then you were considered lame. Plenty of popular clothing brands in the 21st century made their launch to popularity because of the 90s. The group who molded 90s fashion to be greatest where the youth, the youth were the ones who started so many popular fashion trends that would make the 90s have a unique look. You were not a 90s kid if you did not have a pair or a bunch of Levi’s jeans, Levi’s was the go to jean as the popular 517 and 501 were born and everyone was cutting their Levi’s, Rolling up their Levi’s, or even
...ation of mini-skirts did bring a whirlwind in the summer of 1960. Besides, Peter Max T-shirt was also hot in the 60s. In addition, as we discussed of the fashion style for the 80s. The dresses were powerful and simple. Especially, the colors were deeper than the 60s and those designers prefer to add jewels on garments. Moreover, many products were luxurious in the 80s because of the economy has recovered during that period. Modern fashion is meaningful; it brings many changes and has a huge influence on general life. Heskett (2002) mentioned that It not only changes the lifestyle, but also changes the minds of a generation. Modern fashion is continuing to better its functions and forms, moreover it has long way to go and a huge space to discover and create. Therefore, modern designers need more and more artists to inherit and find new styles of vintage influences.