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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by smackeyacky on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:59AM (#31040334)
Movie remakes might not be quite enough to make the 30 year number work. I feel like there is some confirmation bias here.

Consider "Happy Days", made in the 1970s to celebrate the 1950s. The wave of mods and paisley jangle pop in the 1980s to celebrate the 1960s. All the "Big Star" sounding bands of the late eighties and early nineties celebrating Alex Chilton circa 1972.

I would guess the movies are a lagging trend, the real number is likely 20 years, approximately equating to mid childhood, early teens as being idealised and getting expressed in successful adulthood at 30 in pop culture by those who experienced those times in formative years.

That would put the first wave of 80s nostalgia in the 2000s[0]

Stranger things is more like nostalgia for early 2000s 80s nostalgia.

Edit: the twenty year rule? [1] [2]

[0] http://www.inthe00s.com/archive/inthe00s/smf/1342451842.shtm...

[1] https://decades.medium.com/how-1980s-nostalgia-ruled-the-200...

[2] https://www.furious.com/perfect/culturecycles.html

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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by lkois on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:56AM (#31052811)
>Stranger things is more like nostalgia for early 2000s 80s nostalgia.

Vaporwave music and all the visual design around it embraces this pretty hard. If a clip isn't literally set to 80s commercials it's at least full of VHS distortion effects.

Half the comments on any video seem to be teenagers talking about nostalgia for a time they never experienced

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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by walt74 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:45AM (#31053226)
Yes, so much this. And one of your links mentions 1998s movie "The Wedding Singer" with Adam Sandler, a soundtrack full of 80s-hits and a very old Billy Idol in a guest role at the end. This was about the start of the 80s-nostalgia that never really faded until this day.

I think something is very off about nostalgia these days and my best guess is that digital networks alter the way our collective memory works.

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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by drewcoo on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:38AM (#31050446)
Golly! And it could be driven by understandable human factors like mid-life crisis instead of magic numbers?

You don't say . . .

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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by vlunkr on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:45AM (#31052730)
Who said it was driven by magic numbers?
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