Retro - Examples

Examples

The 1970s brought about a fifties revival with American Graffiti, Grease, and Happy Days. This lasted into the eighties with the rockabilly revival. The fifties greaser look greatly influenced the punk subculture.

The 1980s moved on to a 1960s revival with power pop being influenced by sixties pop rock. Various artists covered 1960s pop and R&B hits. Most notable is You Keep Me Hangin' On being covered by Kim Wilde and Where Did Our Love Go? being covered by Soft Cell.

The 1990s brought a brief seventies revival with That 70s Show and a revival of disco music and seventies pop led by The ABBA Generation by the A*Teens. A series known as I Love the 70s also debuted.

The 2000s began the 1980s revival. This craze has brought about revivals of The Transformers, G.I. Joe, Speed Racer, The Smurfs, and Voltron. The post punk revival coincides with this, as the genre was originally popular (albeit underground) in the 1980s. (Speed Racer had, however, been first revived int the nineties as Speed Racer X and Voltron as Voltron: the Third Dimension.) There was a That 80s Show, but it was shortlived. I Love the 80s, a part of a series of decade retrospectives, became the most popular of the series and spawned two sequel series.

Today, there has been a slight 1990s revival. TV channel Nickelodeon has established a block on its Teenick station featuring 1990s Nickelodeon programs. Several of Nick's 1990s game shows have been revived. There was also an I Love the 90s series.