1985 (song)
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"1985" is a song which is best known as having been performed by the pop rock band Bowling for Soup. It is on the album A Hangover You Don't Deserve, and is a song about a person who is obsessed with the pop culture of 1985 after her plan to become an actress as a twenty-something back then is no longer, as pointed out in the lyrics. Overall the song deals with growth and maturity, lost dreams and changing pop culture via the "passage of time". The song was written in conjunction with Mitch Allen of SR-71, and recorded as well, but that version is much less known. The song was originally written about 1984, but the writers found it easier to rhyme with 1985. The single was featured in Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 17. The Bowling for Soup music video parodies famous videos from early MTV era, including Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video, George Michael's "Faith" video, Whitesnake's "Is This Love" video, and directly parodies Mötley Crüe.
The song is quite popular among the pre-teen crowd, even though most do not know about any of the pop culture mentioned or parodied. A version with "PG-rated" lyrics is played on Radio Disney, where, for example, the line "one Prozac a day" is replaced with "one workout a day." The edited version is produced by Kidz Bop, however, it initially retained the line "Only been with one man; what happened to her plan?" (this has since been changed; now it says "Loved only one man" but the shorter line is stretched in an awkward manner when the song is played so that it is hard to tell what is really being said). The song/video is also popular with the generation of people currently in their 30s or early 40s as nostalgia for the pop culture of their youth, although the song makes no effort to imitate the style of the '80s.
There is an earlier song of the same name by Paul McCartney.
"1985" is also a song on the Manic Street Preachers' recently released album Lifeblood. Another song by the same name still is by Roper on their album Brace Yourself for the Mediocre.
