90's Thursdays......

I decided that yesterday was 80's Wednesday. I got on a kick from the weekend. went & downloaded Corey Hart, Heart, Bangles etc..... Wasn't a Manic Monday but definately a Wacky Wednesday. Because we are officially half way through 2006, I feel that really we shouldn't be in denial anymore and accept that we're old and embrace... 90's Thursdays!

Part of the fun of reliving the 80's is that it was the frivolous decade of big hair and big clothes. Think teased hair & shoulder pads; flourescents & spandex. This extreme look was offset with the Preppie look of tweeds & pastels. However, not to be out done by the teased hair, Prepies had their permed hair, giant bangs & also wore shoulder pads.

But the 80's were all about fun! Dance music, Heavy Metal & the eternal LOVE ballad... Air Supply, Chicago & Foreigner... Love was something you fought for and was all consuming... So after spending the entire day to listening to this crap, I was in rather a bad mood. Everyone is pain. There's unrequitted love everywhere... and you start identifying with this.. "He doesn't love me either!" "I'm a good woman!" bla bla bla.... So I went out and got drunk....

So I decided to change decades in hopes of lifting my mood.

The 90's. Fashion calmed down a bit but not before exploring red jeans & hammer pants. Not to out done by the boppy dance numbers of the 80's, you have the BAD never ending techno Dance mixes that only have a 3 line chorus. Heavy Metal has been replaced with Grunge and the love ballads have gone bitter. We woke up. We got a social conscious. Did some reflection. We wanted to change the world & when that wasn't working for us we'd just pop some E & go dancing.

I don't really know if my mood is lifted as I just finished listening to a song about a boy that came to school & shot everyone. I can't really afford to do any E today as I really do need to get some work finished as I was too busy crying on bed last night.

So what are you? a child of the 70's (haven't even touched that) 80's or 90's or are you eternal?????

Love Ballad
80's: What about Love
90's: I Will Always Love You

Teen Angst
80's: We're not Gonna Take It
90's: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Dance
80's: Anything Michael Jackson
90's: REMIX REMIX REMIX

Rock
80's: Bruce Sprinsteen
90's: Anyone in a plaid shirt

It's hard for me to decide what I was as I graduated high school in 1993, so my taste pretty much bridges both decades.

Let me leave you with this to ponder: ... If you had to "Do", "Dump" or "Marry" Who'd you choose for each if your selection was: Rue Mclanahan, Betty White or Bea Arthur?????