Worst songs of the ‘80s...
All of them, every last one of them and I’m not saying that because I’m unhip old fart, I grew up from my teens to my 20s in the 1980s and I hated every last song that came out of that decade. It’s what I like to call “The MTV music holocaust” because before MTV they sold music on how good it was. When MTV came along the industry realized they didn’t have to have quality to sell anymore, all they needed was a catchy video. Music went from being based on sound to being based on image and it’s never been the same since with a few exceptions. Someone like Madonna would have never ever had a career in a million years with that whiny shrieking voice of hers if it wasn’t for MTV.
That’s actually a pretty good summation of what happened, but I still liked all the campy songs.
Agreed. Videos killed the radio stars in the 1980s.
I remember when MTV first came on, and I mean the very first day. I got home early and turned on the TV (my cable TV bill was $10/mo) and at noon a usually blank channel came on and the music video, Video Killed The Radio Star, came on and MTV was born.
I tend to agree with you that the quality of music went down on a very steep decline after that.