Black Mirror is a regular love letter to the video games, technology and fonts of co-creator Charlie Brooker’s youth.
Netflix shows Glow, Wet Hot American Summer, Narcos, Fuller House and The Americans all mine the decade for eye-catching design and block colour throwback detail Glow’s big-haired, bright-spandex lady wrestlers executing their sleeper holds to the glossy soundtrack of Roxette, Rose Royce and Sylvester. Their single ‘Bad Decisions’ so closely resembles the 1981 hit ‘Dancing With Myself’ by Billy Idol’s new wave band Generation X, that Idol and co-writer Tony James get co-writing credits.įor film and TV commissioners the Eighties are the gift that keeps on giving.
Then there’s The Strokes themselves, whose comeback album after seven years variously nods to Joe Jackson, the Human League and (once again) New Order. (It’s taken from an album called After Hours, the title a tribute to Martin Scorsese’s 1985 film of the same name.) And ‘Fire In Bone’, the new one from The Killers, that sounds like Peter Gabriel.Įlsewhere, the TikTok lockdown dance hit ‘Blinding Lights’ by The Weeknd is a synth-happy patchwork of Michael Sembello’s ‘Maniac’ from Flashdance and A-Ha’s ‘Take On Me’ the arms-aloft, skipping-steps dance routine it inspired something Molly Ringwald might have broken out during The Breakfast Club. Also ‘Aries’ by Gorillaz, a New Order-inspired art pop number featuring signature bass from Peter Hook, alongside vocals from current house darling Georgia. This week’s NME’s Best New Tracks rundown on Spotify includes The 1975’s ‘If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)’, a paint-by-numbers Tears For Fears homage, complete with outrageously cheesy sax solo. “Where did they go?” Judging from current playlists, they haven't gone far. “The Eighties bands,” sing The Strokes on their new album.
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