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Every once in awhile I see an 80s video or movie, and remember: yeah, wow, people really did have giant hair back then.
by pavel_lishin 2y ago
Every once in awhile I see an 80s video or movie, and remember: yeah, wow, people really did have giant hair back then.
- ethbr1 2y agoIt's not giant when everyone is doing it: it's just normal. And what do you have against letting your soul glo? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=961x0NmyHKE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=961x0NmyHKE
- nuancebydefault 2y agoI find Lionel Richie a phenomenon. The hair and moustache look weird now, but his songs stand the test of time.
- ethbr1 2y ago+1, but then my copy of Rick James' Street Songs has grooves cut into it, so what do I know of music?
- defrost 2y ago“Lionel Richie's Hello is the Battleship Potemkin of rock music videos...” ~ Humphrey B. Flaubert, TISM, If You're Not Famous at Fourteen, You're Finished - De RigueurMortis (2001)
- kentbrew 2y agoRichie closing out the 1984 Olympics was most excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zj7C3GRj7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zj7C3GRj7s Somewhere in here you can hear Jim McKay explaining the difference between "poppers" and "break dancers" and it is just awesome.
- Vecr 2y agoA lot of things have always been pretty boring. People wanting to be seen were less likely to look boring though, so there's a selection effect there.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoas they say about anime characters -- higher the hair, closer to god
- seanhunter 2y agoIt's true. I knew a person who got stopped by customs on an international flight because they thought no person could conceivably have 12 cans of hair spray in their luggage for innocent purposes (she did- for creating the massive 80s hair).
- evoke4908 2y agoI wonder how anyone got anything done in those days. It must take hours and tens of dollars in hair spray every day to get your hair that big