The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop culture trends

Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by walt74 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:39AM (#31053161)

>There’s a reason that the culture of the 1980’s is experiencing a resurgence right now.

I stopped reading right there. The first signs of 80s-nostalgia went off in the electro nostalgia in electronic music circles around the year 2000, just a few years later we had 80s-shows on mainstream TV in germany, nonstop.

The 80s-Nostalgia-Trip itself is running for 20 years now and normal nostalgia cycles can't explain this phenomenon.

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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by ghaff on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:46AM (#31053235)

The problem with talking about N-year cycles is that every decade or other period is an amalgam of various styles/culture/films/tech/etc. that are more or less relevant to different age groups and subcultures. I'm guessing you can pick and choose to support just about any theory although is probably is generational to a certain degree.

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Re:The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop cu... by tenebrisalietum on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:45AM (#31053227)

9/11 disrupted the normal flow of trends IMHO.

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