>>20555736For me it's the music.
Nothing today quite sounds like it. Synthwave gets it wrong too.
The melodies, the chord choices, composition, the mix of analogue and digital / FM synthesiser, shredding with certain guitar amplifiers and sounds, the lack of compression, it's completely unlike anything that followed.
Part of it is the Synclavier and how digital synthesis didn't really emulate real instruments that well. By the 90s they started to do that, which made them sound less interesting. Using the same old presets all the time wasn't new in the 90s but at least they spiced it up by 1987.
Movies were the same. Cameras that capture the scene in a certain light, the colour grading was a certain way, a basic bitch way of delivering corny lines that somehow hit anyway due to the backdrop and the story.
The 1980s were when white people were still creating culture by themselves, for the world.
Jews were involved, God knows they were, but total creative control was out of the question.
That changed with Britney Spears, the boy bands, the Nickelodeon and Disney kids.
