Staring at 80s music videos on youtube made me sit up one late night.

I saw some of it when i was small. I still am captured by their imagination.

They were simple and captivating, and I was always thinking of the thought engine that led to their creation.

I didn’t realise it then, the 80s must have been rather seedy and turbulent. It really was quite dark, even though a lot of the music was bubblegum and elevator.

While I used to think the lyrics were probably just functional, some of them hit me now like a ton of bricks.

I stayed on this line for awhile when i was a teenager – ten people may read the same book, or watch the same film, but they can have very different experiences and convictions about it.

Thats the thing, it does not mean as much to someone else as it means to you.

And twenty years do not seem that long ago, especially when you play back that song and it still sounds the same, even though you were kicking back from school that afternoon and first heard it when you slotted in the cassette.

The other thing that i wondered, were I to meet someone from back then. Would the feeling still be the same?

80s · just an illusion · lifemap