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** Two reasons: Either they weren't around when it was and therefore simply don't understand, or they were, and are too embarrassed to admit they actually liked it at one point.
*** But the 80s gets an ''incredible'' amount of hate compared to the other decades in pop music.
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*** Popular music had, at to the point, been seen as something subversive and against the establishment, at first just by its very nature with the likes of Elvis and Little Richard being banned for supposed sexuality, and then directly with the likes of Bob Dylan railing against the Vietnam War and corrupt politicians. When we got to the eighties with rampant capitalism and Thatcher & Reagan, popular music actually seemed to side with them (the biggest selling artists of the decade such as Duran Duran and Huey Lewis and the News seemed to be celebrating consumerism).
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** The 80's (or at least the bits people take the piss out of) was largely a [[Take That]] that got horrendously out of hand. Anyone remember The Human Leagues early hit Being Boiled Alive? No? That's because because it was the ''original'' line up who recorded that. After most of the band members left due to "creative differences" Philip Oakley drafted in two fit birds from the local pub and topped the charts. Some of the previous members, annoyed that their former band had "sold out" and gone pop decided to form Heaven 17, pose as a bunch of Yuppies and make incredibly polished, bland Pop songs about how great it was to be incredibly bland and polished to take the piss. Unfortunately, the joke was lost on actual Yuppies who lapped it up unironically. As a result, labels signed just about anyone they could find who fit the mold and what started as a genuinely disturbing and subversive rejection of Rocks hyperbolic somewhat ironically became a deliberately vacous celebration of all things tacky and souless. Compare Warm Leatherette by The Normal (1978) to Too Shy by Kajagoogoo (1983), who had themselves started as a far more experimental band before becoming frustrated and "going pop".
** It also depends on which kind music you're talking about- in [[Punk Rock]] and [[
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** The second reason here seems to be the main one. The 80's were when electronic music really came into it's own, but it was still early and primitive. People feel that it became "soulless" or "created by machines and not people" Also, a lot of people are obsessed with "authenticity" and generally found that commercialism to be soulless and unauthentic. It's also a lot closer to the now. While the 60's and 70's had a ton of crap in them, they were both a really, really long time ago. Youngish people (30's and such) still remember the 80's clearly.
*** Somewhat ironically, in a recent (and fascinating, if you're into that) TV documentary called Synth Britannia, the members of (I believe) OMD defended themselves against those who claimed it was too mechanical at the time by pointing out that they ''had'' to play every note by hand as sequencers were not yet commercially available, at least to bands of their income bracket. If you've ever tried to play sixteeth notes on a piano for longer than 30 seconds you'll know exactly what they're talking about. How they weren't all laid up with carpel tunnel is a medical mystery.
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** It's from a store in their city that had a sign saying "We sell everything but the girl."
* Why are most musicians being revered for their amazing musical talent, when everyone talks more about how hot they look or their crazy antics?
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