Friend of mine changed the chorus of Electric Avenue to "We gonna walk down to K-Mart to buy some shoes. They only cost a dollar." and now that's how I sing along with it. lol
I don’t know all the words to Beat It, so one part always sounds like Show ‘em Hot Pockets Show ‘em tonight It doesn’t matter Who’s wrong or right Just beat it. . .
I was playing “Let’s Get Physical” on my little 45 record player when I was in about first grade. My mom came in my room, listened to about 30 seconds and took my favorite record!! I had to go back to Tinkerbell telling me when to turn the page. 😂.
My sister (who was probably 10 at the time) had this one. My folks didn't say a thing about it, but God forbid I should listen to Black Sabbath back then.
@Amber J it's a square piece of paper folded into a little 4 cornered contraption with different numbers, colors, questions, and answers on it: www.dltk-kids.com/World/japan/mfortune-teller.htm
I remember an interview with Sting about Every Breath You Take. He said people would come up to him and say, "Oh, that's a great song, we fell in love to this song!" and he'd think, "That's just sick." 😂
Haha well he shouldn't have made it such a good song, then! It's weird how artists will create these songs with a happy or romantic sounding melody, but then add subtly disturbing lyrics and expect the listener to associate more strongly with those lyrics than the actual music. People usually go off the vibe of the music to interpret what the song is about, especially when it's pop music. It's like these singers/bands are trying to set people up to misinterpret the meaning of their songs haha
I think we can all cut ourselves a little break since singing along to a song is probably more often about enjoying the rhythm rather than agreeing with the message.
Friday night videos is where you saw some of the hair bands on MTV. I also loved watching "heavy metal bands videos at 11:00 to midnight on Mtv back in the day. I was a "hair band girl" too! I still and will always love 80's music!!
The racy parts of these songs flew right over most of us from the 80s, which made them cleaner to the listener where current-day lyrics spell it out directly. Love the 80s! Money for nothin!
There was still censorship on music. What I heard was that artists used code language and innuendo to get around it, so adults would know what the song was about, but kids didn't.
@Amber J - I watched Dee Snider's testimony on what you're talking about, a few years ago, and I know what you mean. What he revealed was going on was kinda weird, because part of what was really happening was the people who wanted to censor more heard the lyrics in certain songs, they were interpreting the innuendos in sexually lascivious ways, and the artists were saying, "Hold on. That's not what we were saying." It was *because* the music of the day was typically not explicit that the censors were reading things into the music that really required them to get into the artists' heads. Snider testified because one of the targeted songs was his, and he said he wasn't thinking of anything sexual when he wrote it. He was thinking about some surgery he had. What they missed was that because the lyrics were suggestive or vague, people could interpret them in more than one way. That's why children could keep their innocence around these songs, because they interpreted them from their perspective, enjoyed the tune, and that was it. If there was anything sexual in the songs, they were none the wiser. I mean, to give people an idea, a few years ago, I was asked to give a list of dirty songs from the '80s, and I came up with several. Some of them were on regular radio, and some were from the Dr. Demento Show. Some I can remember that were on pop radio were "She Bop," "Sugar Walls," "Me So Horny," and "Humpty Dance." The first two were so muted in their overtones that I had no idea they were about anything sexual until I was in my 30s, and I heard others point this out. The last two I figured out real quick, though "Me So Horny" was the only one of the four that was that explicit. When we heard it on the radio, we got the censored version, but there was no mistaking what it was about. What the censors complained about was what kids were able to buy in the music stores, since they could get the uncensored versions there, with no warning label. Whether warning labels are "effective," I don't know. Some could reasonably argue that they just make teens want the marked music more, because it's forbidden fruit. "Oooh! This is going to make my parents upset? Alright! That's what I want!..." Just going through the songs of the '80s, it seems like songs in the later part of the decade were becoming more explicit, and censorship was becoming more lax. That could've been part of why the censors started screaming more. They were losing control of what kids were being exposed to.
Winger literally had a song called 'Seventeen' and the lyrics were 'she's old enough for me.' If anything, they were just as explicit. Especially once you hit the 90s.
As a teacher, I can confirm we get immense joy from kids just not getting what things really mean. Makes up for all the screaming and 'will you hold this used kleenex' we have to live through.
Yup, even the 40s was pretty provocative. Christmas songs themselves were written, of course the one we all know as controversial, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in 1949
After six years, my husband has gone through enough of all the music made to convince me all the songs ever, except the bunch that are about drugs or the few about killing someone, are 100% about sex
@@-astrangerontheinternet6687 "After six years, my husband has gone through enough of all the music made to convince me all the songs ever, except the bunch that are about drugs or the few about killing someone, are 100% about sex" All the music? So you're saying that church songs are about sex rather than praising God and worshiping Him. Your perspective is skewed and warped. I get it, if all you hear is music made for the radio; a good deal of it is about sex but not 100% of it. Amy Grant's Baby Baby is said to be about sex but Amy Grant said she wrote it thinking about her new born laying in the crib. If I remember correctly; the video for the song is directed as all songs about sex. The Moral of that story; make sure you have your lawyer read the fine print and get rid of the right that allows those buying the copyright; to interpret it contrary to the author's intent.
@@scotttovey Why’d you have to go there? You knew what the poster’s intent was. You knew she wasn’t referring to all genres of music. That’s just being a troll. As far as Amy Grant and “Baby, Baby”, she surely didn’t market that song like a lullaby for her daughter. She was the star in the video. And it doesn’t even come across as having anything to do with sex in the lyrics or video. It comes across as a love song. That was a terrible example.
I remember thinking the song "Maneater" by Daryl Hall and John Oates was about a tyrannosaurus rex. ;) Love the innocence of youth. Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" was about dancing, of course. ;)
I had a cousin get freaked out by the Man Eater video! She lived in a house that only allowed Christian programming. Me? I watched MTv from the day it premiered!
I still listen to a lot of '80s music, but generally not the stuff that was all over Top 40 radio at the time. It was during that decade that I developed a taste for metal and progressive rock.
So, literally had this conversation last night with hubby about the song “cherry pie” by Warrant!! I had a stop in my tracks moment went I started to realize what they were ACTUALLY singing about😂🤣😂
Yes, I was also shocked as an adult finally realizing what The Steve Miller Band was referring to in their song "Abracadabra" when he sang "of a velvet glove", lol.
@@kyliepechler how do you sensor texts. That always graphic. There was a snake in the song in our defense. I just read and saw what you were saying. Missed that for a long time.
I had to show my cousin's wife - who was well into her 30s the picture of Bobbie Jo Brown on the inside album cover of Cherry Pie before she understood what the song was about. 🤣 Swinging in the living room, Swinging in the kitchen Most folks don't because they're too busy bitching Swingin' in there 'cause she wanted me to feed her I mixed up the batter And she licked the beater 🥧 🍰
The first minute MTV went on air my mom and I watched it together. She watched with me for about 2hrs. Thank you for reminding me of that happy memory.
My mom was playing "every move you make, very breath you take" on the radio and I was like, " a this is about a stalker...... " And she's like " no it's not!" And I'm like, " yes it is." Can't believe that I saw that and she didn't 😂😂
Those "likes" in your comment were like totally 80s. Not sure if that was deliberate or not. ;) (Talking about replacing "she said" with "she was like." Not the actual thumbs-up likes on RUclips.) haha
My brother and I were obsessed with the “Boom boom song” by peter lekakis and would ask for it on repeat in the car. It wasn’t subtle at all but kid innocence. I loved “I think we’re alone” by Tiffany and sang it constantly. And one last word:Madonna
"I think we're alone now" isn't an 80s song and not by Tiffany though. It's a cover of a song from 1967. A lot of big hits sung by female artists in the 80s was actually covers, and originally sung by men; "I think we're alone now", "I love Rock'n'Roll", "Girls just wanna have fun", "Mickey", "Gloria", "I found someone", and "You keep me hanging on" to name a few.
I'm all about my 80s music. No matter if it was metal or dance..I loved it. When I'm cleaning house..I turn on Spotify..crank up the speakers..and blast away at my 80s Playlist.
Roxanne. Really. It says, “You don’t have to go out and sell your body in the night.” Yeah, I have never seen that video but I knew it was about a..... shall we say “lady of the night” or “street walker”, “someone participating in the oldest profession”.
@@barkboingfloom The police weren’t big when they wrote the song. They were actually staying in one of those cheap sleazy hotels that the street walkers used to take their customers for their “business meetings”. The band had only formed in 1977 and was running around doing whatever gigs it could get. One of those was in Paris and the guys in the band couldn’t even afford the company of any of the ladies but then Sting kind of had the idea of wondering what might be like if you actually were dating one of these girls and got her off the street and that’s the whole premise of the song. Of course you may already know that.
Me: “Mom, what are they saying? ‘The chicks’ll cream?’ What does that mean?” Mom: *totally innocent look* “I’m not sure?” Me: *shrugs and goes back to doing the dance with the arm movements* I still don’t really know if she knew what it meant, lol.
Thank you for again ruining my childhood (born in 77). This and your 90’s songs are hysterical and very eye opening. My wife and I both were like “OMG! THAT’S what is was about?”
I was born in late 77 😂 and I started actually listening to the lyrics of my parents songs when I was a late teenager....to THIS DAY... I still tell my parents “ EWWWA GROSS!” “ How could you have played this in the car with young children?” “ OMG MOM ( or dad ) Do you guy’s even KNOW what this is about?!?” which of course they do 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 thought they could get away with it 😂🤣😂😂
Also born in ‘77. Never realized what i was listening to or singing at the top of my lungs. But also remember listening to my parents records and cassettes and 8 tracks. Every generation seems to have dirty minds and pushed the envelope.
Great job! 😁 AND.....80's music is STILL THE GREATEST music EVER!!!! The lyrics were good, they didn't just try to copy old songs and try to remake them like they do today, and they actually MEANT something! Some of the BEST bands (and songs that you still hear on the radio today) came out of the 80's.
In a teaching program the prof said never use current music cuz it was too inappropriate, use music from her gens music 60s and 70s. You know because there's no sex or drugs in those songs ;) I REALLY wanted to tell her.
Every era has them.....The Wanderer and Run Around Sue by Dion, Return to Sender by Elvis, My Ding a Ling by Chuck Berry....too many songs about 16 yo to list!
G’day mate. I’m 56 years old. I’m an Aussie born and bred. I managed to survive the tail end of the psychedelic 60s and the entire groovy 70s. But what I found tough to survive was the freakin weird 80s! Big hair, shoulder pads for the women, power suits for the ladies too, usually with their sleeves scrunched up to their elbows. Pastels, white cotton pants. Neon colours were hot. Miami Vice was hot and the Who Shot JR? Episode of Dallas was also very hot.A lot of music here in OZ was cheesy ballads and pop songs. But the AIDS virus was in its very early days too. Dynasty was real popular, especially Joan Collins. ABBA finally called it quits too.Man, what times they were.👍🇦🇺😁🤪☮️✌️
So, I'm late to this party. I graduated in '86. I'm sure there are several songs missed because I go back now & go oh... nope- can't play this in front of my (yes, I really have a) 9yr old! But 1 that jumped into my head was Too Shy by Kajagoogoo.
My 21 yr old enlightened me about She Bop. In disbelief, I listened to it again and was just stunned! But, I figure I never heard or sang anything but the chorus and that one phrase “danger zone” because at that time it just sounded like mumbling to me. :)
We didn't have cable but, I was lucky enough to be staying up late at my grandparents house the night MTV came on air. I was 9 and thought it was sooo cool just to stay up past midnight.
Love me some darling nikki! However, I had no idea what Little Red Corvette was all about. Then my older sister explained to me what a "smooth ride" is...😲😂
I remember singing with my best friend on the playground "Playing with the Queen of Hearts, you know it isn't really smart, joker is the only fool who do anything for you" and the teachers giggled.🤣🤣
Haha yeah I was too young to know but there's some interesting ones out there if you actually listen to the lyrics now. More examples: Of course there's the classic- Like a virgin (pretty obvious) Take on me (Who knew it was about one night stands) Walk this way (oh wow... so much wrong with this one) Centerfold (Men's magazines) Don't stand so close to me (inapropriate teacher-student relationships) You shook me all night long (no explanation needed right?) Blister in the sun (you're going to need to read the lyrics if you don't know.) She bop (eek) Little red corvette (Prince isn't singing about a car.) My Sharona (Come on who didn't sing this as a kid? Can't believe parents let us lol.)
When I was a little kid (maybe 7) I was in a musical with a bunch of other little kids and some teenagers. We all sang this song at the cast party with girls on one side and boys on the other.
I am older than my husband and I was 16 when that song came out. It was playing one night on the radio and I was teasing him - did he have paradise by the dashboard light - wink wink? He said "I was 11. I didn't get it". Made me feel ancient!
I danced to pop lock and drop it in 4th grade in a talent show at this camp with another girl, and we made it to finals and performed it in front of the entire camp. Like 300+ people watched us literally pop lock and drop it.... I need to know what the adults were thinking letting us perform that dance. Man, I wish I had a recording of it so I could go back and watch it 😂
She Bop cyndi Lauper, Talk Dirty To Me Warrant, Funky Cold Medina Tone-Loc, Hungry Like The Wolf Duran Duran, Urgent Foreigner Sooo many!! 🤣🤣 thanks for the laughs as always!!
I was a little kid in the 80s, so its a pretty big eye opener when I hear the songs now a days. As a teenager in the 90s I knew what most of the songs were talking about on some level at least. My parents never censored what we listened to though, that certainly didn't make me any less clueless.
@sam zuriel yeah that was definitely messed up... but don’t get me wrong, it’s a good song but the meaning and of you listen carefully to the lyrics then tell someone the meaning the song and read the lyrics and understand them, then the song is probably ruined for the person.........
People on here have horrible memory timing. What Is Love was released in 1993. How could we forget that it was made super famous from Night at the Roxbury in 98.
@@kevins.6971 haha What is Love from Howard Jones's Human's Lib album was released 1983. Night at the Roxbury was Haddaway's What is Love. Both great songs!
@@shaynaformity1384 crazy....I thought Haddaway wasn’t the 80s until I looked it up, then I thought the Roxbury movie was around 93-94....looked it up and was shocked it was released in 98! God I hate getting old!
I'm remembering a high school trip to Montreal where the teachers and chaperones had very mixed emotions at a dance that was set up for Anglophone kids and Francophone kids to mingle and meet. It was a complete flop, with kids from different schools staying on completely separate sides of this fancy party room overlooking the St. Lawrence Seaway (side note? Seeing ice bergs for the first time was very cool). And then a song came on that every kid knew, every kid shouted along to and got up and jumped around to on the dance floor, and the adults wanted to congratulate themselves on this cultural triumph _except_ the song was Mony Mony by Billy Idol, and the kids were chanting "Go mother_____! Get laid, get f_____!" during the chorus. I think most kids just felt naughty, not rebellious or sexual, but I still don't recall ever hearing that song played at school dances after that night ...
You left out Sheena Easton. After she took that Morning Train, Sheena grew up...to invite you into her "Sugar Walls" and "Strut" I was 19 years old and a radio disc jockey at a pop station. Imagine my shock to find out what "Relax" was all about!
Laura Branigan: Self Control. I remember thinking the creatures of the night are ghosts and such. Saw the music video for the first time now in my 40's and nothing will ever be the same. It's a great song though, and she was a great artist.
It's a cover though. Most of Laura Branigans songs are covers of Eurodisco hits. A lot of big hits sung by female artists in the 80s was actually covers, and originally sung by men; "I think we're alone now", "I love Rock'n'Roll", "Girls just wanna have fun", "Mickey", "Self Control", "I found someone", and "You keep me hanging on" to name a few.
Or, sounds systems were just bad in the 80's, and we weren't able to understand the words. 🤣 Now that we have Google, I've actually learned what the real lyrics are, and some of them are shocking!
Old man Johnson’s farm? OMG. I was in college and knew this was about sex but I NEVER got the double entendre of old man Johnson’s farm. She Bop by Cyndi Lauper, You Shook Me All Night Long & Big Balls by AC/DC
I love your look backs at 80s and 90s music. As a Gen Xer I too was too young to understand the lyrics - thanks for ruining that nostalgia buzz! 😂 The thing about 80s and 90s music is we probably weren't listening to the lyrics so much, as the tunes were so catchy and awesome, just bopping along to the melody. My greatest 80s tunes when I was knee high were Down Under by Men at Work and Human Leagues Don't You Want Me Baby. My brother and I would leap out of our seats and start dancing in circles round the lounge if they came on to the radio. Good times. Dizzy, but good times. 🙂 PS Had me in stiches just watching you wind up the tape with a pencil! Absolute classic.
So I was in high-school in the 80's, seriously the best time to be a teenager...but my story goes back earlier when I was 5 and my parents would always play Simon and Garfunkel...my absolute favorite song of theirs was Cecilia and I had NO clue what I was belting out..my mom would say that's probably not the best song for you to be singing..I had NO clue until I was older hahaha innocence is so sweet isn't it? Still break out into dancing when that song comes on!!🤣😂🥰
I am 77, and I was still young enough to enjoy this music as I still. My High School class President in 1963 was Jim Branigan, who was Laura Branigan's older brother, before she was famous, though I never met her, may Jim and Laura, RIP.
I was just on another channel talking about the 80s. I was too young to appreciate it 😔 Music today...don't get me started...I mean, who hasn't won a Grammy? 😄 Other of my favorite 80s songs: Karma Chameleon, Safty Dance, and Borderline. Hmm now you got me started...Kyrie, Walking on Sunshine, Take on Me, Everybody Wants to Rule the World...I could almost go on forever 😀
Back then, the Take On Me video was so different from all the others. I told people they wouldn't last and were ahead of their time. When my kids were teens I got to tell them the same thing when looking at a lot of the things they were watching. I love that song!
Still remember years later reading what Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" song was about and wondered how on earth I could not even notice that, when I would frequently be singing it when it was popular.
If it makes you feel any better, I remember Tipper Gore (who I like) testifying about the lyrics and saying that they should be clean like Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" from the 1970's- let me just say even then I knew that they weren't singing about enjoying a trip to the bakery.
You nailed it with Stalker Song and Relax! Little Red Corvette - Prince Darling Nikki - Prince Do You Wanna Touch Me - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Flesh for Fantasy - Billy Idol Walk This Way - Aerosmith (Actually 1970s, but played a lot in the 80s.) I Want Your Sex - George Michael Centerfold - J Geils Band Hot for Teacher - Van Halen Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith I Touch Myself - Divinyls Dancing in the Sheets - Shalamar Legs - ZZ Top Urgent - Foriegner I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen Push It - Salt N Pepa Like a Virgin - Madonna Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol Captain Jack - Jilly Joel (Was this from the 1970s???) You Shook Me All Night Ling - ACDC Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow Everybody's Girl - Rick Springfield The list goes on and on... Best decade for music EVER!!!!! I graduated from High School in 1984, knew what all the lyrics meant, and still loved the songs!
Brought physical album to 5th grade music class. Passed around the album cover... snatched up by teacher and music abruptly stops. In third grade Brought 1950s and 60s Ronco album to show and tell, listened to My Dingaling. Yea, I just liked the melody I told my horrified teacher.
I was 14 to 23 during the 80's, so I figured out the innuendos. I really didn't watch the videos, I was watching movies at the theater. (No streaming from 1980 to 1989.) I still like to listen to 80's music - it makes me realize how old I am. I always think of the lyric in "Wild, Wild West" by Escape Club (1988): 'Heading for the 90's, Living in the Wild, Wild West.' The last year of the 90's (1999) was 22 years ago, the song was 33 years ago. When that song was on the radio, I probably thought 33 was old. Laugh out loud video, typical Holderness quality.
Lionel Richie’s “Hello” video. I remember seeing it when I was a kid, it was sweet and lovely. I watched it with my 10 year old a couple of months ago and oh…MY… god! A grown a** dude in a high school creeping around a blind female student and eventually he’s in her home, standing super still while she goes about her daily routine,oblivious. 🤮
@@leslie6938 of course we aren't OK. 😨😲 but then again, I have this old book on my shelf titled "I'm OK, You're OK" written by a PhD doctor that's a big deal shrink. So now I don't know again if we are not Ok. 🙇
Ha.. This one really hit home for me. So many I still know the lyrics to. Loved the music, took my walkman everywhere and pushed those little foam speakers to their max capacity. All the while singing songs that I had no idea what they were really about. Now once in a while I will be out somewhere and an 80's song will start playing and you gen Xer's know we got to sing em when we hear em... Then I will realize what I'm saying and I think oh gosh that's probably not appropriate for my nearly 50 year old self... Then I think we'll, it probably wasn't all that appropriate for my nearly 10y/o self either so what the he🏒🏒... It's my life (Bon Jovi) and I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby (Joan Jett) 🤘
I'm not exactly sure why this is so questionable. It is about cold war fear. The only line that is the least bit risque is "I don't care as long as she comes tonight" and while it probably means exactly what we think it does it isn't blatant. He could just hope she comes to visit tonight. But yeah, it really wasn't a sex song. It was political and more along the lines of the song Russians.
The Best was the Milli Vanille Scandal. Fall 1989. “Blame it on the Rain”. Freshman In College and that was all that was playing on the radio everywhere.
The 80’s took me from age 16 through 26. Gotta admit I had no idea what most of the songs were referring to. But, then, I had a lot of the words wrong, too.
The radio of my previous car got stuck on the "everything before 1990" channel for about 2 years. I alternated between rocking out & shutting off the music because OH MY GOSH THE LYRICS 😳
Vividly remember whipping around the roller rink as a pre-teen singing “That’s the way, uh huh, huh, I LIKE it, uh huh uh huh”
KC and the Sunshine Band!!
Yeah I was a teenager, an actual teenager,
when that one came out! Ohhh yea!✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
That was mid 70's !!
Another one bites the dust.
Basically anything from KC and the Sunshine band. Keep it coming !!
Friend of mine changed the chorus of Electric Avenue to "We gonna walk down to K-Mart to buy some shoes. They only cost a dollar." and now that's how I sing along with it. lol
My friend’s dad changed the lyrics of Paul Young’s song to “Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.” Still hear it that way, haha.
That's hysterical!!!
HILARIOUS!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE this! My husband and his best friend changed lyrics all the time and it was my favorite thing!
I don’t know all the words to Beat It, so one part always sounds like
Show ‘em Hot Pockets
Show ‘em tonight
It doesn’t matter
Who’s wrong or right
Just beat it. . .
I was playing “Let’s Get Physical” on my little 45 record player when I was in about first grade. My mom came in my room, listened to about 30 seconds and took my favorite record!! I had to go back to Tinkerbell telling me when to turn the page. 😂.
I used to have those books where Tinkerbell told me when to turn the page!
My sister (who was probably 10 at the time) had this one. My folks didn't say a thing about it, but God forbid I should listen to Black Sabbath back then.
You missed an opportunity to Rick Roll us all 😂
Loll
Must be truly innocent.
Back in the '80's I thought the words were worse than they actually are. I thought "Never gonna" was "And I'm gonna"
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“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down & hurt you…” The music video of multiple Rick Astlys was hilarious
The little fortune paper is priceless, very 80s.
I did that in the 90’s and 2000’s as a kid
We definitely did that in the 90's and early 00's too ❤️
@Amber J it's a square piece of paper folded into a little 4 cornered contraption with different numbers, colors, questions, and answers on it:
www.dltk-kids.com/World/japan/mfortune-teller.htm
Ikr, I used to play that as a kid, getting nostalgic now
We called it a "cootie catcher".
I remember an interview with Sting about Every Breath You Take. He said people would come up to him and say, "Oh, that's a great song, we fell in love to this song!" and he'd think, "That's just sick." 😂
Haha well he shouldn't have made it such a good song, then! It's weird how artists will create these songs with a happy or romantic sounding melody, but then add subtly disturbing lyrics and expect the listener to associate more strongly with those lyrics than the actual music. People usually go off the vibe of the music to interpret what the song is about, especially when it's pop music. It's like these singers/bands are trying to set people up to misinterpret the meaning of their songs haha
Honestly, it makes me think of my dogs. When I’m in the kitchen. Especially if I’m cooking.
Yes, I have four resident stalkers. 🐶 🐩 🐕 🐶
@@acmcbride-olson9320 For our dogs, I prefer the term "Velcro-dog"
@@orchdork775 He didn't make it a good song. Copeland did that.
@@acmcbride-olson9320 Dogs: Ever bite you take, every meal you make, I'll be watching you.
80s music still the best music ever. Not apologizing for that.
well said pal
80s and 90s 💗💗💗
I will die on this hill with you. Adding in the early to mid 90’s too.
Amen to that
Yep
I think we can all cut ourselves a little break since singing along to a song is probably more often about enjoying the rhythm rather than agreeing with the message.
The 80s were the BEST! Miss those years!! Haha. Can't get enough of 80s nostalgia!🥰🥰 Kim winding the cassette tape.. so accurate 😂😂
But she was winding it backwards and making it loose
Friday night videos is where you saw some of the hair bands on MTV. I also loved watching "heavy metal bands videos at 11:00 to midnight on Mtv back in the day. I was a "hair band girl" too! I still and will always love 80's music!!
And the. Boom Box. (I had a pink one)
still have my boom box. beat up some but still works.
Winding it th wrong way. Should have had tape pouring out the bottom! Lol
The racy parts of these songs flew right over most of us from the 80s, which made them cleaner to the listener where current-day lyrics spell it out directly. Love the 80s! Money for nothin!
There was still censorship on music. What I heard was that artists used code language and innuendo to get around it, so adults would know what the song was about, but kids didn't.
@Amber J - I watched Dee Snider's testimony on what you're talking about, a few years ago, and I know what you mean. What he revealed was going on was kinda weird, because part of what was really happening was the people who wanted to censor more heard the lyrics in certain songs, they were interpreting the innuendos in sexually lascivious ways, and the artists were saying, "Hold on. That's not what we were saying." It was *because* the music of the day was typically not explicit that the censors were reading things into the music that really required them to get into the artists' heads.
Snider testified because one of the targeted songs was his, and he said he wasn't thinking of anything sexual when he wrote it. He was thinking about some surgery he had.
What they missed was that because the lyrics were suggestive or vague, people could interpret them in more than one way. That's why children could keep their innocence around these songs, because they interpreted them from their perspective, enjoyed the tune, and that was it. If there was anything sexual in the songs, they were none the wiser.
I mean, to give people an idea, a few years ago, I was asked to give a list of dirty songs from the '80s, and I came up with several. Some of them were on regular radio, and some were from the Dr. Demento Show. Some I can remember that were on pop radio were "She Bop," "Sugar Walls," "Me So Horny," and "Humpty Dance." The first two were so muted in their overtones that I had no idea they were about anything sexual until I was in my 30s, and I heard others point this out. The last two I figured out real quick, though "Me So Horny" was the only one of the four that was that explicit. When we heard it on the radio, we got the censored version, but there was no mistaking what it was about. What the censors complained about was what kids were able to buy in the music stores, since they could get the uncensored versions there, with no warning label. Whether warning labels are "effective," I don't know. Some could reasonably argue that they just make teens want the marked music more, because it's forbidden fruit. "Oooh! This is going to make my parents upset? Alright! That's what I want!..."
Just going through the songs of the '80s, it seems like songs in the later part of the decade were becoming more explicit, and censorship was becoming more lax. That could've been part of why the censors started screaming more. They were losing control of what kids were being exposed to.
I think I was 40 when I realized Sledge Hammer was about pounding it
And your chicks for FREE!
Winger literally had a song called 'Seventeen' and the lyrics were 'she's old enough for me.' If anything, they were just as explicit. Especially once you hit the 90s.
Madonna, "Like a Virgin". I would sing that so loud, I had no idea. 🤣
😂🤣😂🤣
That song is actually being jaded in a relationship and then getting into a better relationship where every thing is “shiny and new.”
Me too. I didn’t know what a virgin was.
Everything Madonna
It was also written by a man not necessarily for a woman to sing.
As a teacher, I can confirm we get immense joy from kids just not getting what things really mean. Makes up for all the screaming and 'will you hold this used kleenex' we have to live through.
You could do this for every decade of music.
Yup, even the 40s was pretty provocative. Christmas songs themselves were written, of course the one we all know as controversial, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in 1949
After six years, my husband has gone through enough of all the music made to convince me all the songs ever, except the bunch that are about drugs or the few about killing someone, are 100% about sex
@@-astrangerontheinternet6687
"After six years, my husband has gone through enough of all the music made to convince me all the songs ever, except the bunch that are about drugs or the few about killing someone, are 100% about sex"
All the music?
So you're saying that church songs are about sex rather than praising God and worshiping Him.
Your perspective is skewed and warped.
I get it, if all you hear is music made for the radio; a good deal of it is about sex but not 100% of it.
Amy Grant's Baby Baby is said to be about sex but Amy Grant said she wrote it thinking about her new born laying in the crib. If I remember correctly; the video for the song is directed as all songs about sex.
The Moral of that story; make sure you have your lawyer read the fine print and get rid of the right that allows those buying the copyright; to interpret it contrary to the author's intent.
@@-astrangerontheinternet6687 Y'all nailed it. like one. one percent are about politics.
@@scotttovey Why’d you have to go there? You knew what the poster’s intent was. You knew she wasn’t referring to all genres of music. That’s just being a troll. As far as Amy Grant and “Baby, Baby”, she surely didn’t market that song like a lullaby for her daughter. She was the star in the video. And it doesn’t even come across as having anything to do with sex in the lyrics or video. It comes across as a love song. That was a terrible example.
I remember thinking the song "Maneater" by Daryl Hall and John Oates was about a tyrannosaurus rex. ;) Love the innocence of youth. Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" was about dancing, of course. ;)
oh really?🤣😃😁😘🤑
I remember that day on the school bus when my best friend told me what She Bop was about.
I kept waiting for She-Bop in this video!
I had a cousin get freaked out by the Man Eater video! She lived in a house that only allowed Christian programming. Me? I watched MTv from the day it premiered!
The 80's music was so amazing. It was so happy and fun. The best decade in music and TV and movies. The 80's will rule always!!!
I want the 80s back!!!!!
I still listen to a lot of '80s music, but generally not the stuff that was all over Top 40 radio at the time. It was during that decade that I developed a taste for metal and progressive rock.
Lol. I'm
That mom who still loves her 80s/90s music and makes an effort to expose my kids to it. It truly was the best time to grow up.
No. The music had to be great to make up for the appalling fashion
it's still the best music ever made, i'll go to my grave obsessed with both decades lol
@@susie9893 every decade has fashion issues and often, some come back.
I listened to “Afternoon Delight”, singing “Sky rockets in flight”, not knowing what it really meant. It’s all about a nooner. 😂
To be fair, I think that was 70's, but yeah, that was one of my favorite songs, and I was about 9.
@@stephm.3407 Fair enough. It’s one of the songs I belted out loud in the 80s and reminds me of my 80s.
That made me think of "Arrested Development" when Michael and Maeby are singing it together.
Yes thst's the 70s.
No matter what, the 80’s was a GREAT decade of all kinds of music!!!!!! Good times!!👍👍
I didn't realize what these songs were about until JUST NOW. 😳😳😳😂😂😂
That's too funny!!!!!! See how wholesome your mind is? 👍
When I was young and heard "Every Breath" I told my mom, "Thats kinda creepy."
I think that was the first genuine hug I got from her.
@@billstephens396 probably hugged you like that cuz she was thrilled her son would never grow up to be like that.
@@bobbiema6671 Pffft... I'm "creepy" in other ways...
lol
My mom loved when "Turning Japanese" came (ahem) on the radio. She'd sing along with those nice boys that loved Japan. MA!
🙀
I recently found out what this song meant, A smile from ....... I just liked the music and thought that he really wanted to be Japanese.
80s music still the greatest. Also, missed Billy Idols remake of Mony Mony (with the extra words the listener would add of course.)
Omg, and for some reason they always played it at school dances!!!
Oh yeah remembering the Roller Rink days.
So, literally had this conversation last night with hubby about the song “cherry pie” by Warrant!! I had a stop in my tracks moment went I started to realize what they were ACTUALLY singing about😂🤣😂
The movie American Pie.
Yes, I was also shocked as an adult finally realizing what The Steve Miller Band was referring to in their song "Abracadabra" when he sang "of a velvet glove", lol.
@@kyliepechler how do you sensor texts. That always graphic. There was a snake in the song in our defense. I just read and saw what you were saying. Missed that for a long time.
That's the ringtone on my phone for my wife!
I had to show my cousin's wife - who was well into her 30s the picture of Bobbie Jo Brown on the inside album cover of Cherry Pie before she understood what the song was about. 🤣
Swinging in the living room, Swinging in the kitchen
Most folks don't because they're too busy bitching
Swingin' in there 'cause she wanted me to feed her
I mixed up the batter
And she licked the beater
🥧 🍰
The first minute MTV went on air my mom and I watched it together. She watched with me for about 2hrs. Thank you for reminding me of that happy memory.
My mom was playing "every move you make, very breath you take" on the radio and I was like, " a this is about a stalker...... " And she's like " no it's not!" And I'm like, " yes it is." Can't believe that I saw that and she didn't 😂😂
My mother was glad I saw it right away...
It's honestly surprising how many people don't realize that. It was intentionally written to be creepy, and people use it as their wedding song.
@@Llamanescent ok that's just wrong, at their weddings?!?! I can't imagine
Those "likes" in your comment were like totally 80s. Not sure if that was deliberate or not. ;)
(Talking about replacing "she said" with "she was like." Not the actual thumbs-up likes on RUclips.) haha
@@thehorsequeen1967 oh.... even the guys who wrote and sang it were shocked to learn it was a super Super SUPER popular wedding song.
Innocence was our gift that made the 80s pure. Just like this decade is just as pure to out young ones as much as we might or not have a hard time
My brother and I were obsessed with the “Boom boom song” by peter lekakis and would ask for it on repeat in the car. It wasn’t subtle at all but kid innocence. I loved “I think we’re alone” by Tiffany and sang it constantly. And one last word:Madonna
madonna daddy daddy if you could only see.
I hope daddy never sees. 😆😘🤣
"I think we're alone now" isn't an 80s song and not by Tiffany though. It's a cover of a song from 1967.
A lot of big hits sung by female artists in the 80s was actually covers, and originally sung by men; "I think we're alone now", "I love Rock'n'Roll", "Girls just wanna have fun", "Mickey", "Gloria", "I found someone", and "You keep me hanging on" to name a few.
I think it's Paul Lekakis
Oh Yes, 80s Madonna, lol. Dress You Up is NOT about menswear or style, lol 🙂
I'm all about my 80s music. No matter if it was metal or dance..I loved it. When I'm cleaning house..I turn on Spotify..crank up the speakers..and blast away at my 80s Playlist.
Ummm “papa don’t preach” and “Roxanne”. But my parents kept us pretty sheltered I didn’t have cable until 1990 then I saw all the 80’s videos
Roxanne. Really. It says, “You don’t have to go out and sell your body in the night.” Yeah, I have never seen that video but I knew it was about a..... shall we say “lady of the night” or “street walker”, “someone participating in the oldest profession”.
Well technically Roxanne came out in 1978. So its NOT REALLY an 80's song. ;) But I understand. The Police didn't get big in the U.S. until the 80's.
@@barkboingfloom The police weren’t big when they wrote the song. They were actually staying in one of those cheap sleazy hotels that the street walkers used to take their customers for their “business meetings”. The band had only formed in 1977 and was running around doing whatever gigs it could get. One of those was in Paris and the guys in the band couldn’t even afford the company of any of the ladies but then Sting kind of had the idea of wondering what might be like if you actually were dating one of these girls and got her off the street and that’s the whole premise of the song. Of course you may already know that.
Actually, the song Roxanne is from 1979.
@@barkboingfloom Actually, it’s 1979
I love how her 80's self is very blunt and honest like a little girl.
This is the era that I started listening to Petra, Amy Grant and others. Yeah
I’d forgotten Petra!
I still love Petra 😂 but I prefer their early-90's stuff
So many good bands in the 80s 😻
Me too!! But I still listened to all the 80s rock and pop and dance, too.
Rez Band, Petra, Keith Green, Larry Norman, and Steve Camp!
(But I still love classic rock, too)
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. “Open up your fruitcage, I could be your honey bee” - pure filth! 🤣
I had a total wake-up call when I watched Grease and was singing along 🙊😲 esp. Grease lighting. What was wrong with our parents.
Me: “Mom, what are they saying? ‘The chicks’ll cream?’ What does that mean?”
Mom: *totally innocent look* “I’m not sure?”
Me: *shrugs and goes back to doing the dance with the arm movements*
I still don’t really know if she knew what it meant, lol.
I was in my late 20’s before I figured that out about Grease 🤦♀️
The sequel had at least 2 songs about sex.
@@lainey7985 i legit misheard it as "the chick's will scream" which is much less gross.
@@LC-sc3en I think I might have convinced myself that’s what it said, too.
THE CASSETTE TAPE!!!!! ☠️☠️☠️
Thank you for again ruining my childhood (born in 77). This and your 90’s songs are hysterical and very eye opening. My wife and I both were like “OMG! THAT’S what is was about?”
I was born in late 77 😂 and I started actually listening to the lyrics of my parents songs when I was a late teenager....to THIS DAY... I still tell my parents “ EWWWA GROSS!” “ How could you have played this in the car with young children?” “ OMG MOM ( or dad ) Do you guy’s even KNOW what this is about?!?” which of course they do 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 thought they could get away with it 😂🤣😂😂
Same. Born in '82 though. Lol.
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Also born in ‘77. Never realized what i was listening to or singing at the top of my lungs. But also remember listening to my parents records and cassettes and 8 tracks. Every generation seems to have dirty minds and pushed the envelope.
@@pumpupthejam28 yep ... not just music, though ... Animaniacs ! OMG !
Great job! 😁
AND.....80's music is STILL THE GREATEST music EVER!!!! The lyrics were good, they didn't just try to copy old songs and try to remake them like they do today, and they actually MEANT something! Some of the BEST bands (and songs that you still hear on the radio today) came out of the 80's.
Some of the great songs were covers... I Love Rock N Roll, I Want Candy, Mony Mony, China Girl, Got My Mind Set on You,
Banana Rama, "Venus"
George Michael’s “Father Figure”! Holy crap, how did I not put the pieces together on that as a teenager?
Love this song- lyrics are horrible 😆
"I'll be your DADDY!" dead give away! 😂🤔😭
that's my favorite music video ever!
so classy 😉
Seriously gross song! I remembered when I figured that one out. 🤢
😱😱😱😱😱😱
Well there was Little Red Corvette, but then anything that Prince did could go either way😎
"Pink Cadillac" was gynecological. And don't even get me started on AC/DC's "The Jack."
80s was my favorite decade. Thank you so much. I look forward to your videos every day!
In a teaching program the prof said never use current music cuz it was too inappropriate, use music from her gens music 60s and 70s. You know because there's no sex or drugs in those songs ;) I REALLY wanted to tell her.
Every era has them.....The Wanderer and Run Around Sue by Dion, Return to Sender by Elvis, My Ding a Ling by Chuck Berry....too many songs about 16 yo to list!
@@Braedenfish oh agreed. But she was adamant that 60s and 70s were super clean lyrics.
I had a music teacher once who thought Mr. Tambourine Man was about getting through hard times in life through the power of music.
🎶 Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli-lolli-lollipop!🎶
Evil but awesomely dressed time travelling Kim ... plz stop ruining my memories of my beloved 80s music 🤣🤣🤣
G’day mate. I’m 56 years old. I’m an Aussie born and bred. I managed to survive the tail end of the psychedelic 60s and the entire groovy 70s. But what I found tough to survive was the freakin weird 80s! Big hair, shoulder pads for the women, power suits for the ladies too, usually with their sleeves scrunched up to their elbows. Pastels, white cotton pants. Neon colours were hot. Miami Vice was hot and the Who Shot JR? Episode of Dallas was also very hot.A lot of music here in OZ was cheesy ballads and pop songs. But the AIDS virus was in its very early days too. Dynasty was real popular, especially Joan Collins. ABBA finally called it quits too.Man, what times they were.👍🇦🇺😁🤪☮️✌️
Don't Stand So Close to Me is truly a horrific story and I had no idea when I was a kid what it was talking about. And nice tape rewinding skills!
So, I'm late to this party. I graduated in '86. I'm sure there are several songs missed because I go back now & go oh... nope- can't play this in front of my (yes, I really have a) 9yr old! But 1 that jumped into my head was Too Shy by Kajagoogoo.
I loved the 80's. You forgot Samantha Fox "I wanna have some fun" and Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop"
My 21 yr old enlightened me about She Bop. In disbelief, I listened to it again and was just stunned! But, I figure I never heard or sang anything but the chorus and that one phrase “danger zone” because at that time it just sounded like mumbling to me. :)
@@Halledaze Ditto! I was a disc jockey at a radio station and did not know until a few years ago!
Oh no... now I’m going to go have to listen to “ She Bop” 😳😂
@@alysac5926 Watch the music video. Once you know what the song is really about its hilarious to see all the references.
I was looking for the She Bop comment, didn't take too long to find it . "I Touch Myself" by The Divinyls goes one step further.
Kim, we didnt have cable either. Instead I'd stay up for Friday Night Music Videos on the local independent station.
I totally forgot about that until reading your post here!! .... OMG.
We didn't have cable but, I was lucky enough to be staying up late at my grandparents house the night MTV came on air. I was 9 and thought it was sooo cool just to stay up past midnight.
Darling Nikki - There is no way you didn't understand what THAT was about.
A classic on the B-side
Love me some darling nikki! However, I had no idea what Little Red Corvette was all about. Then my older sister explained to me what a "smooth ride" is...😲😂
Or Erotic City, thought didnt get much radio play
@@keithfranklin214 or AC/DC's giving the dog a bone.🤘
Yeah, Prince got nasty on that one. I knew it and I liked it! 🤣
Dying! I was such an 80’s MTV kid. “Push it, Salt & Peppa
You'll notice that they completely left out Toto's Africa and Never Gonna Give You Up. That's because those ones are untouchably good and memey.
Or even the theme songs for a lot of movies like Karate Kid and Rocky...
Yes, and a cool political song like Give me Hope, Jo’anna by Eddie Grant
@@lerij9570 We are the World.....something something something.
Also anything by Debbie Gibson
@@skeptic-psychic I remember jamming to Electric Youth on my Walkman. 😁
When MTV was music videos. I still remember those original videos and commercials
The 1980’s got. nothing on the 1970’s. I loved anything by Cher. I sang “gypsies, tramps, and thieves” at the top of my lungs as a five-year-old. 😆
Me, too!
You both are adorable!! 😆😆
I remember singing with my best friend on the playground "Playing with the Queen of Hearts, you know it isn't really smart, joker is the only fool who do anything for you" and the teachers giggled.🤣🤣
Rollercade in Youngstown, Ohio, in the '70s. Thank you! And thank you for using the Oxford comma...😀
Haha yeah I was too young to know but there's some interesting ones out there if you actually listen to the lyrics now. More examples:
Of course there's the classic- Like a virgin (pretty obvious)
Take on me (Who knew it was about one night stands)
Walk this way (oh wow... so much wrong with this one)
Centerfold (Men's magazines)
Don't stand so close to me (inapropriate teacher-student relationships)
You shook me all night long (no explanation needed right?)
Blister in the sun (you're going to need to read the lyrics if you don't know.)
She bop (eek)
Little red corvette (Prince isn't singing about a car.)
My Sharona (Come on who didn't sing this as a kid? Can't believe parents let us lol.)
Don't forget "Pearl Necklace" by ZZ Top.
Tube Snake Boogie
Oh yes! There are still people that don't get that one. haha
My wife knew all the words to "Paradise by the dashboard light" when she was like 6 and didn't think about the lyrics until we were dating! LOL
When I was a little kid (maybe 7) I was in a musical with a bunch of other little kids and some teenagers. We all sang this song at the cast party with girls on one side and boys on the other.
That one came to my mind too. 🤣
Stop right there... I gotta know right now... I never heard this song until I was 13 or 14 - Plenty old enough to know what was going on 🤣🤣🤣
I am older than my husband and I was 16 when that song came out. It was playing one night on the radio and I was teasing him - did he have paradise by the dashboard light - wink wink? He said "I was 11. I didn't get it". Made me feel ancient!
A lot of people even today don't even understand the lyrics.
the music video for love is a battlefield was pretty wild haha
I danced to pop lock and drop it in 4th grade in a talent show at this camp with another girl, and we made it to finals and performed it in front of the entire camp. Like 300+ people watched us literally pop lock and drop it.... I need to know what the adults were thinking letting us perform that dance. Man, I wish I had a recording of it so I could go back and watch it 😂
I was a teenager in the 80s. They did have the best music! I am so glad you found nothing "negative" with Rick Springfield music.
@@genxkay358 I knew my husband was a keeper when I checked out his CD collection and he had Rick Springfield CDs. Lol
Omg! Loved that man. I had a 6’ silk wall hanging of him in my room. So 80s. 🥰😂
Used to love his music....then I “listened”🤯🤭. Now we mostly ignore that it was a thing!
@@amytarvin2776 wait...now I have to "listen" to him too?!?! Lol
@@sandip2287 Don’t do it!😅
Hairband girl too myself growing up in the 80s, love the cute 80s outfit!
She Bop cyndi Lauper, Talk Dirty To Me Warrant, Funky Cold Medina Tone-Loc, Hungry Like The Wolf Duran Duran, Urgent Foreigner
Sooo many!! 🤣🤣 thanks for the laughs as always!!
Talk Dirty to Me was Poison
When you list Talk Dirty to Me as Warrant.......you lose ALL 80s music credibility. ALL
I was a little kid in the 80s, so its a pretty big eye opener when I hear the songs now a days. As a teenager in the 90s I knew what most of the songs were talking about on some level at least. My parents never censored what we listened to though, that certainly didn't make me any less clueless.
Total Eclipse of the Heart!
Rewatch the video NOW.
Then follow that viewing by watching the "literal" spoof of it
Slo-mo dove 🕊
That Literal version is sooooo epic 🤣🤣🤣
I still love 80's songs, and I wasn't even alive in the 80's... but my parents were, and they got me HOOKED
omg i’m not even from the 80s and i love the musicccccc
Me too and now all these songs are sorta ruined. I know all of these songs that she played. But the hair tho...
@sam zuriel yeah that was definitely messed up... but don’t get me wrong, it’s a good song but the meaning and of you listen carefully to the lyrics then tell someone the meaning the song and read the lyrics and understand them, then the song is probably ruined for the person.........
Kind of the same since I was born in ‘83. Music from the 80s rocks 🤘
You CANNOT ruin 80s music!!!
My favorite 80's songs were "What is love?",and "Sweet dreams are made of these",
Marilyn Manson did a nice remake of "Sweet Dreams"...
People on here have horrible memory timing. What Is Love was released in 1993. How could we forget that it was made super famous from Night at the Roxbury in 98.
@@kevins.6971 haha What is Love from Howard Jones's Human's Lib album was released 1983. Night at the Roxbury was Haddaway's What is Love. Both great songs!
@@shaynaformity1384 crazy....I thought Haddaway wasn’t the 80s until I looked it up, then I thought the Roxbury movie was around 93-94....looked it up and was shocked it was released in 98! God I hate getting old!
I listen to I❤️80's every day! The 80s ROCK 🤟
I'm turning 49 this year and yes there's a lot of music they would not let us play for dances lol
My middle school dances always featured Eric Clapton's "Cocaine."
I'm remembering a high school trip to Montreal where the teachers and chaperones had very mixed emotions at a dance that was set up for Anglophone kids and Francophone kids to mingle and meet. It was a complete flop, with kids from different schools staying on completely separate sides of this fancy party room overlooking the St. Lawrence Seaway (side note? Seeing ice bergs for the first time was very cool). And then a song came on that every kid knew, every kid shouted along to and got up and jumped around to on the dance floor, and the adults wanted to congratulate themselves on this cultural triumph _except_ the song was Mony Mony by Billy Idol, and the kids were chanting "Go mother_____! Get laid, get f_____!" during the chorus. I think most kids just felt naughty, not rebellious or sexual, but I still don't recall ever hearing that song played at school dances after that night ...
I tricked a DJ into playing Prince's "Darling Nikki" at a dance. He was *not* happy with me about 30 seconds in.
@@robertbowman448 Wait, how was your school even allowed to play that song?
The best decade for music!! Hands down!
You left out Sheena Easton. After she took that Morning Train, Sheena grew up...to invite you into her "Sugar Walls" and "Strut"
I was 19 years old and a radio disc jockey at a pop station. Imagine my shock to find out what "Relax" was all about!
Laura Branigan: Self Control. I remember thinking the creatures of the night are ghosts and such. Saw the music video for the first time now in my 40's and nothing will ever be the same. It's a great song though, and she was a great artist.
Lol!!! Same! That was one of my favorite songs in Kindergarten and 1st Grade 🤣
It's a cover though. Most of Laura Branigans songs are covers of Eurodisco hits.
A lot of big hits sung by female artists in the 80s was actually covers, and originally sung by men; "I think we're alone now", "I love Rock'n'Roll", "Girls just wanna have fun", "Mickey", "Self Control", "I found someone", and "You keep me hanging on" to name a few.
Kim probably needed blue mascara and frosted pink lipstick to truly pull off the 80s look!
Gotta follow this with the video about seeing 80's movies on cable - TBS or WGN and then revisiting them 30 years later in their full, uncut selves!
I guess when we say 80s music was so good is that the beats and sounds were just so much better!!
Or, sounds systems were just bad in the 80's, and we weren't able to understand the words. 🤣 Now that we have Google, I've actually learned what the real lyrics are, and some of them are shocking!
Yes, they had a melody! I think this is why the contemporary music scene has lost most of the current generation to country music
@@aspirecan4829 I LOVED the sound systems of the 80's!! that's the main reason it was soooo good! ;)
I was born in 89 and I love everyone of those songs the 80s look really cool wish I could have lived during that time period❤
Old man Johnson’s farm? OMG. I was in college and knew this was about sex but I NEVER got the double entendre of old man Johnson’s farm. She Bop by Cyndi Lauper, You Shook Me All Night Long & Big Balls by AC/DC
I love your look backs at 80s and 90s music. As a Gen Xer I too was too young to understand the lyrics - thanks for ruining that nostalgia buzz! 😂
The thing about 80s and 90s music is we probably weren't listening to the lyrics so much, as the tunes were so catchy and awesome, just bopping along to the melody.
My greatest 80s tunes when I was knee high were Down Under by Men at Work and Human Leagues Don't You Want Me Baby. My brother and I would leap out of our seats and start dancing in circles round the lounge if they came on to the radio. Good times. Dizzy, but good times. 🙂
PS Had me in stiches just watching you wind up the tape with a pencil! Absolute classic.
HERE'S SOME 80s SONGS YOU CAN'T GO WRONG: Jack and Diane, Living on a prayer, We got the beat, anything by Bob Segar.
Um, I’m no prude, but I wouldn’t exactly say that “Diane’s sitting on Jackie’s lap, he’s got his hands between her knees” is wholesome.
Also, have you not listened to the lyrics of Bob Seger’s Night Moves?? It’s all about losing one’s virginity.
She ain't sitting on his face...😂😂
I actually thought the line after that might get ya...but...
Diane’s debutant backseat of Jackie’s car” and whoever mentioned Nightmoves is correct.
So I was in high-school in the 80's, seriously the best time to be a teenager...but my story goes back earlier when I was 5 and my parents would always play Simon and Garfunkel...my absolute favorite song of theirs was Cecilia and I had NO clue what I was belting out..my mom would say that's probably not the best song for you to be singing..I had NO clue until I was older hahaha innocence is so sweet isn't it? Still break out into dancing when that song comes on!!🤣😂🥰
I'm Only Human by Human League and Voices Carry by 'Til Tuesday
I am 77, and I was still young enough to
enjoy this music as I still. My High School
class President in 1963 was Jim Branigan,
who was Laura Branigan's older brother,
before she was famous, though I never
met her, may Jim and Laura, RIP.
I was just on another channel talking about the 80s. I was too young to appreciate it 😔
Music today...don't get me started...I mean, who hasn't won a Grammy? 😄
Other of my favorite 80s songs: Karma Chameleon, Safty Dance, and Borderline. Hmm now you got me started...Kyrie, Walking on Sunshine, Take on Me, Everybody Wants to Rule the World...I could almost go on forever 😀
Back then, the Take On Me video was so different from all the others. I told people they wouldn't last and were ahead of their time. When my kids were teens I got to tell them the same thing when looking at a lot of the things they were watching. I love that song!
Oh yes, I remember that video. 😀
Still remember years later reading what Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" song was about and wondered how on earth I could not even notice that, when I would frequently be singing it when it was popular.
If it makes you feel any better, I remember Tipper Gore (who I like) testifying about the lyrics and saying that they should be clean like Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" from the 1970's- let me just say even then I knew that they weren't singing about enjoying a trip to the bakery.
You nailed it with Stalker Song and Relax!
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Darling Nikki - Prince
Do You Wanna Touch Me - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Flesh for Fantasy - Billy Idol
Walk This Way - Aerosmith (Actually 1970s, but played a lot in the 80s.)
I Want Your Sex - George Michael
Centerfold - J Geils Band
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
Dancing in the Sheets - Shalamar
Legs - ZZ Top
Urgent - Foriegner
I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Push It - Salt N Pepa
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
Captain Jack - Jilly Joel (Was this from the 1970s???)
You Shook Me All Night Ling - ACDC
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Everybody's Girl - Rick Springfield
The list goes on and on... Best decade for music EVER!!!!! I graduated from High School in 1984, knew what all the lyrics meant, and still loved the songs!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣I still had no clue and am in my 50’s. I just enjoyed the music.
Brought physical album to 5th grade music class. Passed around the album cover... snatched up by teacher and music abruptly stops. In third grade Brought 1950s and 60s Ronco album to show and tell, listened to My Dingaling. Yea, I just liked the melody I told my horrified teacher.
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80s music is my favorite!!!
I was 14 to 23 during the 80's, so I figured out the innuendos. I really didn't watch the videos, I was watching movies at the theater. (No streaming from 1980 to 1989.) I still like to listen to 80's music - it makes me realize how old I am. I always think of the lyric in "Wild, Wild West" by Escape Club (1988): 'Heading for the 90's, Living in the Wild, Wild West.' The last year of the 90's (1999) was 22 years ago, the song was 33 years ago. When that song was on the radio, I probably thought 33 was old. Laugh out loud video, typical Holderness quality.
Lionel Richie’s “Hello” video. I remember seeing it when I was a kid, it was sweet and lovely.
I watched it with my 10 year old a couple of months ago and oh…MY… god! A grown a** dude in a high school creeping around a blind female student and eventually he’s in her home, standing super still while she goes about her daily routine,oblivious. 🤮
Oh. My. God. I never thought of that until right now. Yecccch. Ughhh. Ewwwww.
How did we turn out OK? ARE we ok,? 😂😂😲😂
What!? I did not know that!
@@bobbiema6671 I love your questions, they are hilarious!
Of course we are NOT ok! 😂🤣🤪😂
@@leslie6938 of course we aren't OK. 😨😲 but then again, I have this old book on my shelf titled "I'm OK, You're OK" written by a PhD doctor that's a big deal shrink. So now I don't know again if we are not Ok. 🙇
Yup. Just let me say it. Twilight.
Ha.. This one really hit home for me. So many I still know the lyrics to. Loved the music, took my walkman everywhere and pushed those little foam speakers to their max capacity. All the while singing songs that I had no idea what they were really about. Now once in a while I will be out somewhere and an 80's song will start playing and you gen Xer's know we got to sing em when we hear em... Then I will realize what I'm saying and I think oh gosh that's probably not appropriate for my nearly 50 year old self... Then I think we'll, it probably wasn't all that appropriate for my nearly 10y/o self either so what the he🏒🏒... It's my life (Bon Jovi) and I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby (Joan Jett) 🤘
This... could be an entire series, I think.
I loved the way 80s her with the player on her shoulder! So 80s!!!
Why did no one mention “Wild Wild West?” That one might be my absolute favourite.
Oh, such a great song. I just can’t sing the chorus around my kids
I'm not exactly sure why this is so questionable. It is about cold war fear. The only line that is the least bit risque is "I don't care as long as she comes tonight" and while it probably means exactly what we think it does it isn't blatant. He could just hope she comes to visit tonight. But yeah, it really wasn't a sex song. It was political and more along the lines of the song Russians.
Because it's a 90's song.
When I finally realized what the lyrics were for "Grease Lightening," my jaw hit the floor! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Yeah, "just say no, D.A.R.E"
20 years later everything's legal.
So true!
20 years?
@@jaypob yes, I'm old
The Best was the Milli Vanille Scandal. Fall 1989. “Blame it on the Rain”. Freshman In College and that was all that was playing on the radio everywhere.
Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
I’m so excited, I’m so excited... I’m so scared...
The 80’s took me from age 16 through 26. Gotta admit I had no idea what most of the songs were referring to. But, then, I had a lot of the words wrong, too.
They should do more of these with the other songs from the 70s - 90s
The radio of my previous car got stuck on the "everything before 1990" channel for about 2 years. I alternated between rocking out & shutting off the music because OH MY GOSH THE LYRICS 😳