It’s fair to say that - generally speaking - I have a pretty negative opinion the ’80s nostalgia movement which has been perpetuated in music and other pop culture for the past couple of decades. Aside from showing only the most superficial elements of a decade which wasn’t exactly bursting with substance to begin with - I got sick of the ’80s in 1988. 20+ years later, it’s time to embrace the future, or at least the present.
As far as the entertainment industry is concerned, a great deal of it boils down to laziness and greed. “Nostalgia”, to many, means “we stopped caring about creating original content sometime around the invention of talking pictures. These days, we’re more about finding ways to sue you for buying MP3s and listening to them on more than one iPod at a time. If you want music and movies, here’s the crap your parents were enjoying back in the days when our President was a zombie, we were convinced that the Russians were gonna bomb us into oblivion, and a man was judged by the cut of his mullet.”
So you can imagine how annoying it is that I can’t look at this cover to Supergirl #45 without hearing Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” in the back of my mind. I hate the 80s! Good comic, though.
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