80s Music Was Pretty Wild ⚡ 

KC and the Sunshine Band!!

Yeah I was a teenager, an actual teenager, when that one came out! Ohhh yea!✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

That was mid 70's !!

Another one bites the dust.

Basically anything from KC and the Sunshine band. Keep it coming !!

Loll

Must be truly innocent.

Back in the '80's I thought the words were worse than they actually are. I thought "Never gonna" was "And I'm gonna"

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“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down & hurt you…” The music video of multiple Rick Astlys was hilarious

Haha well he shouldn't have made it such a good song, then! It's weird how artists will create these songs with a happy or romantic sounding melody, but then add subtly disturbing lyrics and expect the listener to associate more strongly with those lyrics than the actual music. People usually go off the vibe of the music to interpret what the song is about, especially when it's pop music. It's like these singers/bands are trying to set people up to misinterpret the meaning of their songs haha

Honestly, it makes me think of my dogs. When I’m in the kitchen. Especially if I’m cooking. Yes, I have four resident stalkers. 🐶 🐩 🐕 🐶

@@acmcbride-olson9320 For our dogs, I prefer the term "Velcro-dog"

@@orchdork775 He didn't make it a good song. Copeland did that.

My friend’s dad changed the lyrics of Paul Young’s song to “Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.” Still hear it that way, haha.

That's hysterical!!!

HILARIOUS!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE this! My husband and his best friend changed lyrics all the time and it was my favorite thing!

I don’t know all the words to Beat It, so one part always sounds like Show ‘em Hot Pockets Show ‘em tonight It doesn’t matter Who’s wrong or right Just beat it. . .

well said pal

80s and 90s 💗💗💗

I will die on this hill with you. Adding in the early to mid 90’s too.

Amen to that

Yep

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That song is actually being jaded in a relationship and then getting into a better relationship where every thing is “shiny and new.”

Me too. I didn’t know what a virgin was.

Everything Madonna

It was also written by a man not necessarily for a woman to sing.

I used to have those books where Tinkerbell told me when to turn the page!

My sister (who was probably 10 at the time) had this one. My folks didn't say a thing about it, but God forbid I should listen to Black Sabbath back then.

I did that in the 90’s and 2000’s as a kid

We definitely did that in the 90's and early 00's too ❤️

@Amber J it's a square piece of paper folded into a little 4 cornered contraption with different numbers, colors, questions, and answers on it: www.dltk-kids.com/World/japan/mfortune-teller.htm

Ikr, I used to play that as a kid, getting nostalgic now

We called it a "cootie catcher".

There was still censorship on music. What I heard was that artists used code language and innuendo to get around it, so adults would know what the song was about, but kids didn't.

@Amber J - I watched Dee Snider's testimony on what you're talking about, a few years ago, and I know what you mean. What he revealed was going on was kinda weird, because part of what was really happening was the people who wanted to censor more heard the lyrics in certain songs, they were interpreting the innuendos in sexually lascivious ways, and the artists were saying, "Hold on. That's not what we were saying." It was *because* the music of the day was typically not explicit that the censors were reading things into the music that really required them to get into the artists' heads. Snider testified because one of the targeted songs was his, and he said he wasn't thinking of anything sexual when he wrote it. He was thinking about some surgery he had. What they missed was that because the lyrics were suggestive or vague, people could interpret them in more than one way. That's why children could keep their innocence around these songs, because they interpreted them from their perspective, enjoyed the tune, and that was it. If there was anything sexual in the songs, they were none the wiser. I mean, to give people an idea, a few years ago, I was asked to give a list of dirty songs from the '80s, and I came up with several. Some of them were on regular radio, and some were from the Dr. Demento Show. Some I can remember that were on pop radio were "She Bop," "Sugar Walls," "Me So Horny," and "Humpty Dance." The first two were so muted in their overtones that I had no idea they were about anything sexual until I was in my 30s, and I heard others point this out. The last two I figured out real quick, though "Me So Horny" was the only one of the four that was that explicit. When we heard it on the radio, we got the censored version, but there was no mistaking what it was about. What the censors complained about was what kids were able to buy in the music stores, since they could get the uncensored versions there, with no warning label. Whether warning labels are "effective," I don't know. Some could reasonably argue that they just make teens want the marked music more, because it's forbidden fruit. "Oooh! This is going to make my parents upset? Alright! That's what I want!..." Just going through the songs of the '80s, it seems like songs in the later part of the decade were becoming more explicit, and censorship was becoming more lax. That could've been part of why the censors started screaming more. They were losing control of what kids were being exposed to.

I think I was 40 when I realized Sledge Hammer was about pounding it

And your chicks for FREE!

Winger literally had a song called 'Seventeen' and the lyrics were 'she's old enough for me.' If anything, they were just as explicit. Especially once you hit the 90s.

oh really?🤣😃😁😘🤑

I remember that day on the school bus when my best friend told me what She Bop was about.

I kept waiting for She-Bop in this video!

I had a cousin get freaked out by the Man Eater video! She lived in a house that only allowed Christian programming. Me? I watched MTv from the day it premiered!

But she was winding it backwards and making it loose

Friday night videos is where you saw some of the hair bands on MTV. I also loved watching "heavy metal bands videos at 11:00 to midnight on Mtv back in the day. I was a "hair band girl" too! I still and will always love 80's music!!

And the. Boom Box. (I had a pink one)

still have my boom box. beat up some but still works.

Winding it th wrong way. Should have had tape pouring out the bottom! Lol

Yup, even the 40s was pretty provocative. Christmas songs themselves were written, of course the one we all know as controversial, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in 1949

After six years, my husband has gone through enough of all the music made to convince me all the songs ever, except the bunch that are about drugs or the few about killing someone, are 100% about sex

@@-astrangerontheinternet6687 "After six years, my husband has gone through enough of all the music made to convince me all the songs ever, except the bunch that are about drugs or the few about killing someone, are 100% about sex" All the music? So you're saying that church songs are about sex rather than praising God and worshiping Him. Your perspective is skewed and warped. I get it, if all you hear is music made for the radio; a good deal of it is about sex but not 100% of it. Amy Grant's Baby Baby is said to be about sex but Amy Grant said she wrote it thinking about her new born laying in the crib. If I remember correctly; the video for the song is directed as all songs about sex. The Moral of that story; make sure you have your lawyer read the fine print and get rid of the right that allows those buying the copyright; to interpret it contrary to the author's intent.

@@-astrangerontheinternet6687 Y'all nailed it. like one. one percent are about politics.

@@scotttovey Why’d you have to go there? You knew what the poster’s intent was. You knew she wasn’t referring to all genres of music. That’s just being a troll. As far as Amy Grant and “Baby, Baby”, she surely didn’t market that song like a lullaby for her daughter. She was the star in the video. And it doesn’t even come across as having anything to do with sex in the lyrics or video. It comes across as a love song. That was a terrible example.

I want the 80s back!!!!!

I still listen to a lot of '80s music, but generally not the stuff that was all over Top 40 radio at the time. It was during that decade that I developed a taste for metal and progressive rock.

That's too funny!!!!!! See how wholesome your mind is? 👍

When I was young and heard "Every Breath" I told my mom, "Thats kinda creepy." I think that was the first genuine hug I got from her.

@@billstephens396 probably hugged you like that cuz she was thrilled her son would never grow up to be like that.

@@bobbiema6671 Pffft... I'm "creepy" in other ways...

lol

To be fair, I think that was 70's, but yeah, that was one of my favorite songs, and I was about 9.

@@stephm.3407 Fair enough. It’s one of the songs I belted out loud in the 80s and reminds me of my 80s.

That made me think of "Arrested Development" when Michael and Maeby are singing it together.

Yes thst's the 70s.

No. The music had to be great to make up for the appalling fashion

it's still the best music ever made, i'll go to my grave obsessed with both decades lol

​@@susie9893 every decade has fashion issues and often, some come back.

My mother was glad I saw it right away...

It's honestly surprising how many people don't realize that. It was intentionally written to be creepy, and people use it as their wedding song.

@@Llamanescent ok that's just wrong, at their weddings?!?! I can't imagine

Those "likes" in your comment were like totally 80s. Not sure if that was deliberate or not. ;) (Talking about replacing "she said" with "she was like." Not the actual thumbs-up likes on RU-vid.) haha

@@thehorsequeen1967 oh.... even the guys who wrote and sang it were shocked to learn it was a super Super SUPER popular wedding song.

Or even the theme songs for a lot of movies like Karate Kid and Rocky...

Yes, and a cool political song like Give me Hope, Jo’anna by Eddie Grant

@@lerij9570 We are the World.....something something something.

Also anything by Debbie Gibson

@@skeptic-psychic I remember jamming to Electric Youth on my Walkman. 😁

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I recently found out what this song meant, A smile from ....... I just liked the music and thought that he really wanted to be Japanese.

The movie American Pie.

Yes, I was also shocked as an adult finally realizing what The Steve Miller Band was referring to in their song "Abracadabra" when he sang "of a velvet glove", lol.

@@kyliepechler how do you sensor texts. That always graphic. There was a snake in the song in our defense. I just read and saw what you were saying. Missed that for a long time.

That's the ringtone on my phone for my wife!

I had to show my cousin's wife - who was well into her 30s the picture of Bobbie Jo Brown on the inside album cover of Cherry Pie before she understood what the song was about. 🤣 Swinging in the living room, Swinging in the kitchen Most folks don't because they're too busy bitching Swingin' in there 'cause she wanted me to feed her I mixed up the batter And she licked the beater 🥧 🍰

Omg, and for some reason they always played it at school dances!!!

"Pink Cadillac" was gynecological. And don't even get me started on AC/DC's "The Jack."

A classic on the B-side

Love me some darling nikki! However, I had no idea what Little Red Corvette was all about. Then my older sister explained to me what a "smooth ride" is...😲😂

Or Erotic City, thought didnt get much radio play

@@keithfranklin214 or AC/DC's giving the dog a bone.🤘

Yeah, Prince got nasty on that one. I knew it and I liked it! 🤣

Love this song- lyrics are horrible 😆

"I'll be your DADDY!" dead give away! 😂🤔😭

that's my favorite music video ever! so classy 😉

Seriously gross song! I remembered when I figured that one out. 🤢

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I totally forgot about that until reading your post here!! .... OMG.

We didn't have cable but, I was lucky enough to be staying up late at my grandparents house the night MTV came on air. I was 9 and thought it was sooo cool just to stay up past midnight.

Me: “Mom, what are they saying? ‘The chicks’ll cream?’ What does that mean?” Mom: *totally innocent look* “I’m not sure?” Me: *shrugs and goes back to doing the dance with the arm movements* I still don’t really know if she knew what it meant, lol.

I was in my late 20’s before I figured that out about Grease 🤦‍♀️

The sequel had at least 2 songs about sex.

@@lainey7985 i legit misheard it as "the chick's will scream" which is much less gross.

@@LC-sc3en I think I might have convinced myself that’s what it said, too.

Roxanne. Really. It says, “You don’t have to go out and sell your body in the night.” Yeah, I have never seen that video but I knew it was about a..... shall we say “lady of the night” or “street walker”, “someone participating in the oldest profession”.

Well technically Roxanne came out in 1978. So its NOT REALLY an 80's song. ;) But I understand. The Police didn't get big in the U.S. until the 80's.

@@barkboingfloom The police weren’t big when they wrote the song. They were actually staying in one of those cheap sleazy hotels that the street walkers used to take their customers for their “business meetings”. The band had only formed in 1977 and was running around doing whatever gigs it could get. One of those was in Paris and the guys in the band couldn’t even afford the company of any of the ladies but then Sting kind of had the idea of wondering what might be like if you actually were dating one of these girls and got her off the street and that’s the whole premise of the song. Of course you may already know that.

Actually, the song Roxanne is from 1979.

@@barkboingfloom Actually, it’s 1979

When I was a little kid (maybe 7) I was in a musical with a bunch of other little kids and some teenagers. We all sang this song at the cast party with girls on one side and boys on the other.

That one came to my mind too. 🤣

Stop right there... I gotta know right now... I never heard this song until I was 13 or 14 - Plenty old enough to know what was going on 🤣🤣🤣

I am older than my husband and I was 16 when that song came out. It was playing one night on the radio and I was teasing him - did he have paradise by the dashboard light - wink wink? He said "I was 11. I didn't get it". Made me feel ancient!

A lot of people even today don't even understand the lyrics.

I’d forgotten Petra!

I still love Petra 😂 but I prefer their early-90's stuff

So many good bands in the 80s 😻

Me too!! But I still listened to all the 80s rock and pop and dance, too.

Rez Band, Petra, Keith Green, Larry Norman, and Steve Camp! (But I still love classic rock, too)

Every era has them.....The Wanderer and Run Around Sue by Dion, Return to Sender by Elvis, My Ding a Ling by Chuck Berry....too many songs about 16 yo to list!

@@Braedenfish oh agreed. But she was adamant that 60s and 70s were super clean lyrics.

I had a music teacher once who thought Mr. Tambourine Man was about getting through hard times in life through the power of music.

🎶 Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli-lolli-lollipop!🎶

madonna daddy daddy if you could only see. I hope daddy never sees. 😆😘🤣

"I think we're alone now" isn't an 80s song and not by Tiffany though. It's a cover of a song from 1967. A lot of big hits sung by female artists in the 80s was actually covers, and originally sung by men; "I think we're alone now", "I love Rock'n'Roll", "Girls just wanna have fun", "Mickey", "Gloria", "I found someone", and "You keep me hanging on" to name a few.

I think it's Paul Lekakis

Oh Yes, 80s Madonna, lol. Dress You Up is NOT about menswear or style, lol 🙂

I was born in late 77 😂 and I started actually listening to the lyrics of my parents songs when I was a late teenager....to THIS DAY... I still tell my parents “ EWWWA GROSS!” “ How could you have played this in the car with young children?” “ OMG MOM ( or dad ) Do you guy’s even KNOW what this is about?!?” which of course they do 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 thought they could get away with it 😂🤣😂😂

Same. Born in '82 though. Lol.

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Also born in ‘77. Never realized what i was listening to or singing at the top of my lungs. But also remember listening to my parents records and cassettes and 8 tracks. Every generation seems to have dirty minds and pushed the envelope.

​@@pumpupthejam28 yep ... not just music, though ... Animaniacs ! OMG !

My 21 yr old enlightened me about She Bop. In disbelief, I listened to it again and was just stunned! But, I figure I never heard or sang anything but the chorus and that one phrase “danger zone” because at that time it just sounded like mumbling to me. :)

@@Halledaze Ditto! I was a disc jockey at a radio station and did not know until a few years ago!

Oh no... now I’m going to go have to listen to “ She Bop” 😳😂

@@alysac5926 Watch the music video. Once you know what the song is really about its hilarious to see all the references.

I was looking for the She Bop comment, didn't take too long to find it . "I Touch Myself" by The Divinyls goes one step further.

Talk Dirty to Me was Poison

When you list Talk Dirty to Me as Warrant.......you lose ALL 80s music credibility. ALL

Marilyn Manson did a nice remake of "Sweet Dreams"...

People on here have horrible memory timing. What Is Love was released in 1993. How could we forget that it was made super famous from Night at the Roxbury in 98.

@@kevins.6971 haha What is Love from Howard Jones's Human's Lib album was released 1983. Night at the Roxbury was Haddaway's What is Love. Both great songs!

@@shaynaformity1384 crazy....I thought Haddaway wasn’t the 80s until I looked it up, then I thought the Roxbury movie was around 93-94....looked it up and was shocked it was released in 98! God I hate getting old!

Me, too!

You both are adorable!! 😆😆

I remember singing with my best friend on the playground "Playing with the Queen of Hearts, you know it isn't really smart, joker is the only fool who do anything for you" and the teachers giggled.🤣🤣

Rollercade in Youngstown, Ohio, in the '70s. Thank you! And thank you for using the Oxford comma...😀

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Oh yes! There are still people that don't get that one. haha

My middle school dances always featured Eric Clapton's "Cocaine."

I'm remembering a high school trip to Montreal where the teachers and chaperones had very mixed emotions at a dance that was set up for Anglophone kids and Francophone kids to mingle and meet. It was a complete flop, with kids from different schools staying on completely separate sides of this fancy party room overlooking the St. Lawrence Seaway (side note? Seeing ice bergs for the first time was very cool). And then a song came on that every kid knew, every kid shouted along to and got up and jumped around to on the dance floor, and the adults wanted to congratulate themselves on this cultural triumph _except_ the song was Mony Mony by Billy Idol, and the kids were chanting "Go mother_____! Get laid, get f_____!" during the chorus. I think most kids just felt naughty, not rebellious or sexual, but I still don't recall ever hearing that song played at school dances after that night ...

I tricked a DJ into playing Prince's "Darling Nikki" at a dance. He was *not* happy with me about 30 seconds in.

@@robertbowman448 Wait, how was your school even allowed to play that song?

That Literal version is sooooo epic 🤣🤣🤣

Some of the great songs were covers... I Love Rock N Roll, I Want Candy, Mony Mony, China Girl, Got My Mind Set on You,

Banana Rama, "Venus"

Me too and now all these songs are sorta ruined. I know all of these songs that she played. But the hair tho...

@sam zuriel yeah that was definitely messed up... but don’t get me wrong, it’s a good song but the meaning and of you listen carefully to the lyrics then tell someone the meaning the song and read the lyrics and understand them, then the song is probably ruined for the person.........

Kind of the same since I was born in ‘83. Music from the 80s rocks 🤘

@@genxkay358 I knew my husband was a keeper when I checked out his CD collection and he had Rick Springfield CDs. Lol

Omg! Loved that man. I had a 6’ silk wall hanging of him in my room. So 80s. 🥰😂

Used to love his music....then I “listened”🤯🤭. Now we mostly ignore that it was a thing!

@@amytarvin2776 wait...now I have to "listen" to him too?!?! Lol

@@sandip2287 Don’t do it!😅

Oh, such a great song. I just can’t sing the chorus around my kids

I'm not exactly sure why this is so questionable. It is about cold war fear. The only line that is the least bit risque is "I don't care as long as she comes tonight" and while it probably means exactly what we think it does it isn't blatant. He could just hope she comes to visit tonight. But yeah, it really wasn't a sex song. It was political and more along the lines of the song Russians.

Because it's a 90's song.

Um, I’m no prude, but I wouldn’t exactly say that “Diane’s sitting on Jackie’s lap, he’s got his hands between her knees” is wholesome.

Also, have you not listened to the lyrics of Bob Seger’s Night Moves?? It’s all about losing one’s virginity.

She ain't sitting on his face...😂😂

I actually thought the line after that might get ya...but...

Diane’s debutant backseat of Jackie’s car” and whoever mentioned Nightmoves is correct.

Sounds like we have a kindred "Professor of Rock" fan here.

Looks like you missed the video of them on the flying carpet.

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Money For Nothin' is just bad messaging on so many fronts, but its guitar riffs and catchy refrain cement it as the epitome of 80's music 🎶

@@angelag.hunter9679 you could interpret it that way or he's just saying they are doing pretty much nothing compared to what he's doing you know if you watch the music video but yeah many ways of interpretation

If I remember right, in the video she put her hand to her chest like she was swooning. It looked perfectly innocent. But I was *just* old enough not to fall for that. 😉

😂😂😂😂😂

Omg, the theme song for 2020-21

Definitely should have been in the video!! First listen as kids, *This teacher is a great guy, he's definitely being upfront and doing the right thing* Getting older and realizing what the lyrics are actually saying, *OH, he's a damn pervert. She's a little girl man*

That book by Nabokov is Lolita, and Sting was a teacher before fame ........

I had totally forgotten about The Police!

Even one of my favorite movies (Say Anything) was kind of about an obsessed guy. Never occurred to me at the time. Then there's Flashdance, Sabrina, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Dirty Dancing where older guys go after much younger women. Labyrinth has that vibe, too.

@@j.s.1816 Say Anything is my fave!

Or, sounds systems were just bad in the 80's, and we weren't able to understand the words. 🤣 Now that we have Google, I've actually learned what the real lyrics are, and some of them are shocking!

Yes, they had a melody! I think this is why the contemporary music scene has lost most of the current generation to country music

@@aspirecan4829 I LOVED the sound systems of the 80's!! that's the main reason it was soooo good! ;)

Oh. My. God. I never thought of that until right now. Yecccch. Ughhh. Ewwwww. How did we turn out OK? ARE we ok,? 😂😂😲😂

What!? I did not know that!

@@bobbiema6671 I love your questions, they are hilarious! Of course we are NOT ok! 😂🤣🤪😂

@@leslie6938 of course we aren't OK. 😨😲 but then again, I have this old book on my shelf titled "I'm OK, You're OK" written by a PhD doctor that's a big deal shrink. So now I don't know again if we are not Ok. 🙇

Yup. Just let me say it. Twilight.

Lol!!! Same! That was one of my favorite songs in Kindergarten and 1st Grade 🤣

It's a cover though. Most of Laura Branigans songs are covers of Eurodisco hits. A lot of big hits sung by female artists in the 80s was actually covers, and originally sung by men; "I think we're alone now", "I love Rock'n'Roll", "Girls just wanna have fun", "Mickey", "Self Control", "I found someone", and "You keep me hanging on" to name a few.

Back then, the Take On Me video was so different from all the others. I told people they wouldn't last and were ahead of their time. When my kids were teens I got to tell them the same thing when looking at a lot of the things they were watching. I love that song!

Oh yes, I remember that video. 😀

So true!

20 years?

@@jaypob yes, I'm old

I’m so excited, I’m so excited... I’m so scared...