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Not to miss essay<\/a> for anyone who had anything to do with the 80s, however peripheral.<\/p>\n

I graduated from high school in 1990, and I saw some of these videos a hundred times, probably. Obviously I never questioned the clothing, or the hair, or why the zombies in that Billy Idol song couldn’t just take the elevator instead of climbing the side of the building (actually, maybe they’re vampires, and come to think of it, I’m not sure Billy Idol wasn’t a vampire also\u0085or maybe it had nothing to do with the undead\u0085like so many videos of that era, it’s tough to say definitively what the hell is going on). I just watched them, even for songs I hated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes. Me too.<\/p>\n

Also, she makes the comment that John Taylor looked like “one of those yellowing hairstyle cards in the front window of the salon nobody goes to in your neighborhood.” That is some serious brilliance. And I say that as someone who had John Taylor pictures plastered all over my locker. But honestly. That is SO what he looked like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to miss essay for anyone who had anything to do with the 80s, however peripheral. I graduated from high school in 1990, and I saw some of these videos a hundred times, probably. Obviously I never questioned the clothing, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21142,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/21142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}