I’ve never been as obsessed with a decade as I was the 80s from about 6th-9th grade, though. Stranger Things, which I first saw in spring 2017, sparked that obsession. I’d already grown up listening to Michael Jackson and watching Back to the Future and Back to the Future II on repeat (I was a huge fan of both of these films, and it was partly why I romanticized the 50s somewhat) but I remember just falling in love after seeing the first season of Stranger Things. I remember I regarded 1980-1981 as being too 70s to be cool (back then I felt the 70s were too old to be cool, though strangely enough I kind of romanticize the 70s now/have started to just a bit within the last year or so in spite of how I felt in middle school) and I’d say I was particularly into 1982-1989, but really moreso 1984-1989 as the sweet spot (and my 80s obsession mainly consisted of me watching popular 80s films like the breakfast club, goonies, pretty in pink, sixteen candles. Back then I felt like that was where I belonged. By 2021 I just found 80s nostalgia annoying, even though I loved stranger things 4. Funny how I changed.)

I stayed up Sunday morning watching soul train music videos. I have seen a few eps of good times this past year. I’ve realized I like 70s music. In middle school, I was actually a huge fan of David Bowie (like a huge fan, had a big crush on him) and enjoyed That 70s Show but I still wouldn’t say that I romanticized the 70s around that time period. I think that since Society at large wasn’t terribly nostalgic over the 70s when my 80s nostalgia obsession begun, that’s why I cared less for the decade, but now that I’m an adult and have changed a lot personality wise, I think I do romanticize the 70s more than I once did (I like bell bottoms, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, pretty much the whole dazed and confused soundtrack. But the clothes were pretty hit or miss, and I feel like between the 50s-90s I am the most likely to see a film or tv show from the 70s - or maybe 60s, sometimes - and think “wow, these celebrities don’t look attractive, or at least not as attractive as celebrities from the 50s and 90s do” (70s I feel had the most normal/average looking people in film and on TV, though I also feel the 70s were the best decade for film.) I remember my grandfather playing 70s music when I was little and I grew up w my mom playing lots of it, she was born in august 1972. I’m almost nineteen.

Although I really would say the 90s are “coolest” to me.

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