In the '80s

Devo Spice

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In the '80s

What’s with kids today? With the hair in the faces and the dub... step... what is that? Is that even music?

I never thought I’d see the day when I would say

That things today are crappy and that things were best when I was your age

Yet here we are -- movies suck, TVs suck, I hate ‘em, oh

And please don’t get me started on the crap that’s on the radio

There was no autotune, rappers had skill

No tricks in '86, it’s time to build

Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack would pack in all my favourite songs

Now the dial is nothing but Delilah all night long

LL Cool J was hard as hell

And Ice Cube had a bad attitude as well

Now he’s makin' family comedies that feature farts

And these rappers who can’t rap are crappin’ all over the charts

You used to see me watchin' MTV

‘Cos back then they showed things I actually wanted to see

You know, like music videos, and shows like Yo! MTV Raps

Instead of all this reality crap

It makes me wanna cry -- is it any wonder why

That I would wanna go back in time like Marty McFly

And dial 867-5309

To call up Jenny and I’ll make her mine

In the '80s

Oh, talkin’ ‘bout days gone by in the '80s

When a woman’s hair was high in the '80s

In the '80s

What happened to good reality TV like Unsolved Mysteries? Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of people they hate make lots of money?

This may be crazy, but I always thought my car would be KITT

Or possibly the General Lee with Daisy in the back of it

But that just wasn’t meant to be, so now I guess you’ll see

The stick figure decals on my SUV

Now that I got kids, you know what really makes me sore?

There’s nothing good on Saturday mornin’ anymore

No Superfriends, Scooby Doo, Smurfs, or Bugs Bunny

CBS in the morning, that's supposed to be funny?

But back then, as Ash said, everything was groovy

Back when there were only three Star Wars movies

Back before attacks upon the holy trilogy

When a computer vomited all over everything we see

I liked Freddy Krueger, man, he gave me the creeps

I had computers with a green screen and only one beep

I'd see a kid on a bike and like everyone hollers,

All together now: “I want my two dollars!”

Time goes on and now those things are all gone

Now I’m yellin’, tellin’ kids to get the hell off my lawn

And yet despite all this time, one thing I still can’t do

Is solve the damn Rubik’s cube

In the '80s

Yeah, I wanna go back in the '80s

Usin' words like “fresh” and “wack” in the '80s

In the '80s

I never could figure this thing out. Ugh, how am I gonna get this green square over to the... wait, where'd this purple square come from?

No Facebook or likes -- no, we went outside

With no helmets on our bikes when we took ‘em for a ride

No pictures of girls that are ostrich-styled

Yes, our girls were wild, but they actually smiled

No iTunes, no, we went to the store

And used to bore through the huge pile of vinyl on the floor

No MP3, OMG, or LOL

I’m not kiddin' -- no, we didn’t have the internet at all

Uh--- wait a minute. No internet? No internet?! How the hell did we survive?

Now that you mention it, I kinda like it here

With 3,000 TV channels and the picture is clear

Plus Netflix and Hulu, movies on demand

More bad sci-fi than any man can stand

Now all my friends are at the end of my mouse

I talk to hundreds at a time and never have to leave my house

I got a business that I run in my underwear from here

On this cushion in my couch that’s molded right to my rear

I used to be afraid that Russia’d blow us off the map

Now I shoot birds at pigs with an app while I crap

I got real-time feeds for celebrity scandals

And all the free porn my bandwidth can handle

Yeah, music sucks today, but oh man

We had Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and Wham!

Plus the New Kids on the Block, Poison, Warrant, A-ha

Even Milli Vanilli -- really, need I go on?

Video games in my time were just fine

But I like how now a gun is drawn with more than just a line

And I can play ‘em with my kids, two boys and a girl

You know I wouldn’t give that up for the world

In the '80s

Back when SNL was good in the '80s

Pretendin’ I was with the Boyz 'n da Hood in the '80s

In the '80s

I wore clothes with a neon motif in the '80s

And I'm still askin' "Where's the beef?" in the '80s

In the '80s

Okay, now where was I? Oh, right. Catsthatlooklikehitler.com. Definitely didn’t have this in the '80s.

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Commenti dell’autore:

"Every generation complains about the one that follows. They lament how things were better back in "their day", be it the 1930s, 1950s, or in my case, the 1980s. The '80s were my time, to quote The Goonies. Back when women had huge hair and wore ankle socks, which, for the record, I still find sexy. So now it's my turn to complain about how much better things were back then. Except I'm not sure I really believe it."
---- Devo Spice on the 1980s