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Diman Trends: The 80s Are Back

Jenna Gagne, '09

With the leggings, skinny jeans, slip-on shoes and accent jewelry, it seems we are just a padded blazer and a big hair-do away from bringing the 80's back to full capacity. I see it everyday in magazines and around school. People are turning more and more to rock music, bold style, and it seems to me that they just want the fun back from those wonderful times their parents speak of.

Everyone remembers hearing Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," and of course "Video Killed the Radio Star".

It's times when you hear these songs that you don't feel much different than your parents, though most of the time it seems like they are light years away! There's just something good in forgetting all the animosity between you for a song you can both relate to and jam out to in the car. Bon Jovi is still doing his thing on the charts, since his glory days of "Shot to the Heart." Music has to be the biggest influence from the 80's because even today, new bands are adapting that tap-your-foot pop sound. New bands like Amber Pacific and Yellowcard remake songs that tell the story of the 80's, and made them more appealing to today's generation.

80's style has come back as well. Matching shoes with purses was always a big fad in the 80's and now the latest designers like Gucci, Prada and Coach design with Story continued on back cover that style in mind. You can buy your shoes and bags with the same pattern to complete any outfit. Belts are being worn over the shirts and ripped, acid wash jeans are being pulled out of the drawers once more. People walk around now wearing the same pencil skirts, fish net over panty hose, and skinny jeans tucked into sleek boots, that they did some 25 years ago. Converse shoes and slip-ons like Air Walkers are really "kicking" it with funky socks of all colors. Big earrings and layered chunky necklaces play a major part in today's wardrobe. These trends never left, but were in hiding so a new generation could make them their own.

Movies have been around for a lifetime of entertainment, but the 80's started to focus on something new: TEEN ANGST! Heathers was about a group of girls making a name for themselves by feeding off other's embarrassment. The Breakfast Club couldn't have shown how teens treat each other and live their lives according to their parents in a more realistic way. Can you believe that the movies today show the same feelings and scenarios as back then?

Mean Girls resembles the 80's so much with the fight for popularity and sublime blindness of parents to their children's morals. TV shows, basically based on teen experiences, like "Degrassi," "One Tree Hill," and "The O.C.," reveal how life is for teens, and has been since the 80's.

Hate it or love it, America is being brought back to the 80's all over again...or at least Diman High School is. The music, the style, the entertainment: everything is saying the same thing - we need some excitement and fun in our lives. After all, we only get one chance to live, so we might as well make it the best experience it can be! Live life for today and live it as yourself ... and if yourself happens to be 80's at heart, keep up the beat!