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Why do we find it so hard to move on from the 80s?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA scene from Heathers the Musical based on the 1988 film.Kurt Sneddon

Why is it that the current darling of the pop scene, Taylor Swift, called her best-selling album (released in 2014) 1989? It was, granted, the year of her birth - but among her inspirations for it, she cited the 80s pop group Fine Young Cannibals and the teen flicks of John Hughes...

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