RANDOM THOUGHTS ON BEING A LATE 80s BABY

I've been on a music downloading rampage lately. The last playlist I added to my ipod was an I love the 90s playlist.

It was only the second playlist of it's kind. The first was an I love the 70s playlist

This got me thinking. Why is it that I can make a 90s playlist from memory and a 70s playlist from memory but couldn't make an 80s playlist from memory. Afterall I am an 80s baby right?

To tell the truth if it didn't come from MJ in the 80s then chances are I didn't remember it. I don't even remember too much of Madonna's early stuff. Something seems to be wrong with this picture.

So I got to thinking until I reached an epiphany. First I thought well of course being born in the latter half of the 80's (December 86 to be specific) the 90's would be the only decade I remember fully (next year I'll be able to count the zeros, yes I said zeros that's what I like to call the early millennium years). So how is it could remember all these songs from a decade I wasn't even close to being born in?

Then I thought, "hmmm my mom was a teenager in her 70s, that was her hey day. Maybe she just blasted a lot of disco while I was in the womb". I certainly remember hearing a lot of 70s music around the house as a child (the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack in particular). But something told me that was part of the story but not the whole story.

The after that I thought well 70s was the decade of party tracks. It was the decade in which disco was born. It was the decade defined by constant clubbin. Of course being the dancer that I am I'd gravitate to that kind of music. This is also a huge factor but I still felt I hadn't hit the nail on the head yet.

I continued to ponder the matter as I listened to my ipod. I put it on shuffle and a few 90s songs came up in the mix. Then it hit me. I know all those 70s songs because they were all sampled in the 90s.

It's crazy just how many people in the 90s just stole the classic hits from the 70s. It's really a shame.

First I thought of the Jackson 5's ABC and Naughty By Natured turned it into something all perverted with OPP. Then I thought of Diana Ross' song Love Hangover and how that beat was stolen by Monica in The First Night. Then I thought of the Bee Gees Staying Alive and when Wyclef did a remake of it exactly 20 years later in 97 (I love Wycleff's remake though. he's totally forgiven for being a biter).

The list just goes on and on. I'm not even gonna get started on the hundreds of beats the inventor of the remix Mr Diddy (or whatever the hell his name is these days) stole in the 90s. It's was to the point where me and my sister would get shocked if we heard a Bad Boy song with an original beat.

You simply can't deny it. The 90s was a pretty uninventive decade when it came to music.