Well, shit.

I’m listening to Music Choice on TV, and I have it on 80′s. I’ve noticed a few things about 80′s music.

1. Minimum swearing. You’ll hear a few songs with one word that was considered a swear punishable by death (or at least public lashing) way back when. The usage of the word “fuck” was nearly absent.
2. They were happier. There were heartbreak songs (and probably the best damn heartbreak songs ever since), but you were able to dance or at least sway. Yes, you can do that to a few songs like that today, but the key word here is “few”.
3. More variety. ‘Nuff said.
4. The artists then did get arrested and got caught doing drugs, but it wasn’t too big a deal then. It’s the story of people’s lives these days.
5. Violence talk=practically non-existent. Not a lot of talk about guns, or chopping up people.
6. Sex talk=non-existent. I think that was kinda illegal in music back then anyway.
7. Finally, you can never get tired of 80′s music. You can hear songs from back then and don’t mind hearing it for years to come. 80′s music has the same effect on me as the genre downtempo does. I can never get tired of listening to Thievery Corporation or Zero-7.

Hm…I can only hope that it gets better. But in case it doesn’t, thank goodness for Music Choice.

PS: Downtempo channel please.