Is retro predictable?

condra

Hey Im a big retro head myself, always have been. But it has gotten rather predictable, considering its influence on fashion, culture, design and music.

In the 80s it was the 60s, in the 90s it was the 70s and now its the 80s. You can be even more precise and simply go exactly 20 years back, although the 20 years thing is seemingly getting smaller and smaller as people try to keep ahead of the game.

All Im saying is that its all gotten a bit cynical and predictable.

Its only a matter of time before white boot runners are cool again, aswell as plaid shirts, funny hats and tucking our shirts into our pants and our pants into our socks. Later then there will be more power ballads and the slow set might even make a come back.

So Im wondering if its predictability makes it any less fun for any of you? Or do some of you just concentrate on a decade which did it for you?

Jimi-Spandex

I'm going to be post-retro by dressing like how they thought people were going to dress today in the 60s.

As for something relevant, yes imo, it's all getting a bit tiresome. I was in a "retro" 2nd hand clothes store a few days back and the stuff was in most cases more expensive than in alot of "new" places.

But I can tolerate it as long as Stadium Rock and Power Ballads don't come back.

killswitch

hey man!dont knock the power ballads!if it werent for power ballads,a load of ppl wouldnt have gotten laid in the 80s and people who were born in the 80s may not exist

muesli_offire

...a load of ppl wouldnt have gotten laid in the 80s and people who were born in the 80s may not exist

*shakes misanthropic fist at cruel fates*

*shakes harder*

Seriously though, the nineties felt retro while living through them.

Capt'n Midnight

There used to be one of those nice lists on the intarweb somewhere.

2 years ahead was avant garde
1 ahead year was trendsetting

like 5 years out of date was not stylish
and 20 was naff
and 60 was tres cool etc.

CiDeRmAn

Well, does this mean that during a 90's revival we are going to revisit the 70's revival that featured during that period, wow, how weird is that!
Also, the 90's has already been the feature of a revival, I have followed dance music since the 80's and they have had that stuff and 90's tracks as "classics2 and "oldskool" on retrospective collections for some time now, certainly the more dated and idiosyncratic a style or feature of a given decade become the more "retro" they become, so Acid house and Rave culture will be of "Retro" interest to many, along with the memories they trigger.