It's fairly apparent that the world now thinks of the 1980s as "ye olden times." I spent much of the past weekend watching baseball and anyone who grew up in that decade can't help but recognize the 1980s pop songs now passing for commercial jingles. Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere" is selling Kohl's products, REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" hawks Tums antacid. This isn't a new phenomenon, it's been going on for years, but it seems rampant now. Businesses are trying to capitalize on the nostalgia factor used so successfully in "Stranger Things," and even people who didn't grow up in the '80s admit that there may have been no other decade with more catchy pop songs than the '80s. How do you explain the retro-appreciation for songs like "Take On Me," "Africa" and "Here I Go Again"? I am proud to have lived through the '80s -- not merely as a kid -- but as a teen
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