It’s so weird to think at uni in the 90s we used to go to “retro” 80s discos !

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It’s like going to a disco now playing music from 2010s and considering it to be “old” “retro” music.

Agreed.

Thanks. Just felt I needed to tell someone to see if anyone agreed! as the thought came to me

Before 2010 (I know because that's when my son was born and my parting stopped) , the "80s" theme club near us had changed to a "90"s" theme club

Also traffic light parties!

I bet those don’t happen these days!

I was thinking about this. Also that for my teens my 1950s is their 1980s. The 50s aren't real in my head it was such a different time!

I think it's bizarre that 80s theme nights are still a thing and have been since the 90s. Why have people not got over the 80s yet?

Haha … but the 80s did feel like a long time ago, in 1999!

I guess they were very unique decade for music taste/fashion

Pretty sure gen z would class a noughties night as retro though.

I know it did for me too - so weird

Stranger Things 😁

The film The Wedding Singer was made in 1998 and set in 1985. Was gloriously retro.

Can't imagine 2009 seeming retro to anyone. Even gen z'ers.

I live in a big university city, they definitely have 2010s parties now.

My gen z is always going on about how cool the 2000s were like "that's so y2k". She thinks the 2010s were "cringe"!

Maybe because both the 70s and the 80s had very distinctive mucic and fashion. I'm not sure you could say the same about later decades.

According to one of my DD's friends, there's a trend for 2010 retro at the moment.

Frankly, I still see 2010 as essentially the future

Ha ha, me too !

2010 was recent (I'll conveniently ignore that my teenager was born that year...)

TBH I couldn't really pick out distinct music styles evolving between now and then. It all sounds much the same.

When you're young, 10 years is a long time. At uni, at age 18 songs from the previous decade were all from the distant past when you were a young child.
I suspect that the 1980s probably feels about the same distance away from you in time now as it did back in the 90s.

That's certainly been my experience, anyway. I was an adult in the 1980s and it doesn't seem that long ago, to me. Any music from the 1990s onwards feels new and recent!

erm and 70s nights!

Best time of my life.
I'll never get over the 80s.💃

I have no idea what even happened in the 2010s… just seems completely non-descript and indistinct?!

I do remember for a bit the fashion of the 90s just seemed awful. The jeans covering the belly button, the earnestness, the crew-neck sweaters.

And in the 90s the 80s just were the worst fashion-wise. I still think the 80s were slightly questionable 😂

I have literally been to 60s, 70s, 80s 90s and 00s (grouped as one) nights so can't we say that about every one of those?

I think it’s because progression in technology has happened at an increasing speed since the 90s, so the decades before it all came with a distinct feel in their music and film aesthetics, which was largely because they were driven by their limitations. Later decades feel much less distinct because advances have not meant a greater difference in aesthetic.