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{{quote|''"All right, so my phone here says it's 2016, but that can't be the case because '''no one in their right mind''' would release '''this''' past 1999."''|'''[[The Needle Drop]]''' on ''[[wikipedia:Promise Everything|Promise Everything]]'' by ''[[wikipedia:Basement (band)|Basement]]'', ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}BFK3H5Tl_Lo YUNOREVIEW: JAN 2016]''}}
The twenty-to-thirty-year lag between reality and TV-land. Shows that first ran in [[The Nineties]] often reminisced [[The Seventies]], shows in [[The Eighties]] carry a lot of cultural baggage from [[The Sixties]], shows that first ran in [[The Seventies]] hearken back to [[The Fifties]], and shows in [[The Fifties]] and [[The Sixties]] had its nostalgic setups between [[The Gay Nineties]] and [[The Roaring Twenties]]. At the start of the 21st century, this can be seen in how some works seem to suggest that they took place in [[The Eighties]] when they are supposed to be set in the present-day or a little earlier. In such settings, the "cool kids" still rap and skateboard and the lingo is still [[Totally Radical]] (even in cases where it was not relevant to begin with). In many cases, it's clear that someone [[Did Not Do the Research]].
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== [[Music]] ==
* The [[Bowling for Soup]] song "1985" is about a woman whose tastes are still stuck in the 1980s, which are contrasted with some very dated "current" styles from the 1990s.
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* The videos for [[The Lonely Island]] songs for "Dick in a Box", "Motherlovers," and "3-Way" go straight for the full 80s style. The clothes, the hair, the interior decorations, and even the backgrounds in the outdoor shots are as 80s as possible.
* 80's style [[Synth Pop]] is still big in Europe, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|particularly in Germany]]. While the style faded out of popularity in the U.S., there it branched out into EBM and futurepop, still retaining a very 80's feel in most cases. Makes sense because [[Kraftwerk|that's where the style really originated.]]
* Power metal is still very popular in some areas. Scandinavia in particular is home to many bands whose style derives from 80's metal bands like [[Scorpions]].
* The [[Eurovision Song Contest]] is often about twenty years behind what is actually popular ''in Europe'' simply to garner as much mass appeal as possible (and perhaps for the [[Camp]] factor).
* There's a trend for bands to mimic genres or other bands from past decades:
** In [[The Seventies]], Showaddywaddy and Darts playing [[The Fifties|fifties-style]] music in Britain.
** In [[The Eighties]], some band wanted to be [[Velvet Underground]] or [[The Byrds]].
** In [[The Nineties]], many [[Grunge]] bands wanted to be [[Black Sabbath]].
** In the [[Turn of the Millennium]], many bands wanted to be [[Joy Division]] or Gang of Four.
== [[Pro Wrestling]] ==
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