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I've been around for a little while, and I've noticed that each decade seems to have its own retro trends, although most I've seen haven't been so marked as now.
When I was a teenager Happy Days was on tv and my mom griped and complained that it was oversimplified drivel and they weren't "happy days." Now I've been noticing for several years that people in their early 20s have the urge to recycle the worst pablum crap pop music that we already had to endure once in the 80s. I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper or any of that stuff in the 80s and I sure don't want to hear it now, much less some remix. I listen to some newer music but not that (shudder). So what I'm saying is the musical nostalgia trends don't actually seem to revive the best of what was happening in that decade, as far as I'm concerned. I too have wondered why someone in their early 20s, a very creative age, would get stuck on pop drivel from 20 years ago. I can only hope that it's intended with humor but it doesn't seem to be, so it's mysterious to me. Of course I'm sure plenty of people think that music has merit - I just don't understand it.
As for the automotive retro design trend, I personally favor it because throughout most of the 90s car design got so boring (in my opinion) that they all basically looked like they had been squeezed out of a tube. I think the new mustang looks hot and I've never even liked mustangs at all.
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