Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend (August 29, 2025) Album • Page 20

no, you're right

 

i don't know much about her music but i thought she was amazing in the muppet show revival special

 

The song stinks, sorry.

 

The song is one of the best 80s inspired bops released in the last 5 years, not sorry.

 

I like this song but we're going on now like....two decades plus of 80s nostalgia. Why is everyone so obsessed with this decade in particular?

 

Becuase it was when we peaked as a society

 

I wouldn’t consider any time when Reagan was in power as peak.

 

I assume the underlying answer is both that it was the last decade where everything was done without irony/satire. Additionally, it also was the last decade before there was a significant black influence on pop music which is likely white young white urbanites still flock to 80s nights at their local bars/clubs to this day.

 

I was like zero-seven in the 80s, but I feel like that decade was the decade of like Michael Jackson and Prince. Is there anyone more influential from the 80s? George Michael? Madonna? Bruce? Whitney Houston?

The style, besides just being good, was also one easier to reproduce on a computer right around the time where the people born during it were using computers to make and produce music, and now old enough now be the taste makers.

 

Also, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa ... very very very into the whole satire/irony thing.

 

True but on a limited scale. I'd argue irreverence/irony was really more omnipresent in the 90s first. I'm not knocking the genre of the 80s but I just find it interesting that people who were born well after the decade are leaning into it so hard but that's also a result of streaming thus the entire history of music being available at the click of a button.

 

Limited scale? I disagree pretty heavily. I’d argue it was even well integrated into other genres from Motley Crue/Poison to the extreme popularity of Weird Al in the 80s. “Eat it” won a Grammy in 1984.

 

I would make the case that it's not just the 80s that artists are going back to. As long as there's been an 80s resurgence, there's also been a disco resurgence. There's plenty of artists dipping their toes into 90s alt rock, you could argue that there's a bit of a 60s resurgence in a sense with how singer-songwriter-ish everything has gotten.

 

I don't know...they didn't have the same sort of semi-ironic detachment that I hear in a lot of music from the 00s onwards. Motely Crue/Poison were ridiculous but that ridiculousness was not done with any sort of nod or wink. Either way, I think the reason the 80s is still mined to this day in current music is that it was also the last to really have a holistic defined aesthetic. In the 90s, things started to splinter more into sub categories which makes it harder to define.

 

This I fully agree with, I think there's a ton of nostalgia all over music and it's not just focused on the 80s

 

I disagree with with this too. My entire side of the country has been defined by it since.

 

100%. Part of what I love about music is seeing those influences keep making new artists. Already excited to see what Olivia Rodrigo does with her new one for this very reason.

 

Also, it’s not like this is Sabrina’s whole thing. It’s more that it’s produced by Jack Antonoff, who has a knack for this kind of sound.

I also feel like this is almost more rooted in early 90s pop and R&B like New Jack Swing.

 

Come hang out in NYC where we're post-post-post-everything these days...

 

Also, what's a "house"

 

Good song and video

 

Black music has had an influence on pop music before Elvis was on our TVs