> It's like Synthwave, which was never a thing in the 80s. > It's a modern reinvention of how people assume the 80s felt, filtered through a gauzy haze of nost

> It's like Synthwave, which was never a thing in the 80s. > It's a modern reinvention of how people assume the 80s felt, filtered through a gauzy haze of nostalgia for an imaginary pop culture that never existed in that form. Not really. I write Synthwave music, and I was alive in the 80s and writing similar music back then. I have a deep respect for the bands that pioneered the way via New Wave and Industrial music at the time. I really enjoyed at the time and still enjoy things like the incidental music in Miami Vice, for example. (And Jan Hammer, who wrote much of it, has an interesting history going back to Mahavishnu Orchestra, for example.) It sounds like your own experience is different than that, but don't assume everyone who's into something are into it for naive reasons.