Do you feel the 80s ended on a good note culturally or is it best to tack on the early 90s to the 1980s? How do you feel about the way the 1980s ended?

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Well a decade has to cut off at some point. It's best to let these things take their natural course. I'm kinda fine with the start and end of the 80s. You still have the late 70s spillover and then things were getting more 90s towards the end, but still retained an 80sness.

I personally wouldn't want to add the early 90s stuff to the 80s, as that would spoil the whole mid 80s peak, and the run up to it. Plus for me, the early 90s (whilst not fully grungy) was still quite a bit different from the late 80s for me. I mean Vogue, Vanilla Ice, Fresh Prince, 90210 (which all started in 1990) are not 80s for me.

I feel the early 90s should be tacked on. We had hair bands, melodic light feeling music, new jack swing. Bright colors, acid wash, mullets. A lot of the feel good tv shows still carried over. Many classic car designs that lasted most of the 80s continued until total redesigns in the early 90s.

Well a decade has to cut off at some point. It's best to let these things take their natural course. I'm kinda fine with the start and end of the 80s. You still have the late 70s spillover and then things were getting more 90s towards the end, but still retained an 80sness.

I personally wouldn't want to add the early 90s stuff to the 80s, as that would spoil the whole mid 80s peak, and the run up to it. Plus for me, the early 90s (whilst not fully grungy) was still quite a bit different from the late 80s for me. I mean Vogue, Vanilla Ice, Fresh Prince, 90210 (which all started in 1990) are not 80s for me.


The 80s made us children of that time who we were in the 1990s. So, it only makes sense to see the early 90s as a part of the 90s.