were the early 90's and the 80's the same?

Question

well i was born in 1990 so what was the differnce of the 80's and early 90's

Answer 1

Styles and fashions don't just change cause the calendar does. By the end of the 80's, the whole preppy look was already dead. Big hair still ruled until the early 90's. Looks from the late 80s and early 90s were infused with a new hip hop look. Flat top hair cuts were very popular amongst black men and boys. As was very colorful, almost clashing outfits. Check out the movie "New Jack City" and I think you will get a good idea.

Heavy Metal music was dying and hip hop was blowing up. But everything changed in late 1991 when Nirvana came out an popularized the "Grunge" era. That meant flannel shirts, doc martin (sp?) boots and backwards hats or knit ski caps. That look hit prime time in @1993.

Does that help?

Answer 2

Politically, the climate was the same.

Musically, Alica In Chains and Nirvana became popular because, as usual, the recording company's were all still looking for the next Poison and Motley Crue and it began to grow stale and "grunge" sound was fresh before it too became overplayed and copied.

Fashionwise, the early 80's had some horrid and loud looks until the whole jeans and t-shirt look took over (still happening today, just go to any bar and see). Musicians of the time were a cause of this since they all had to be more outrageous looking than the other bands just to get noticed but many went to wearing regular street clothes and less flashy ones onstage and people followed suit.

Big hair did not go away, hairspray did, and people either cut their hair or quit teasing it and just wore it down. Also, in the 80's advertisements on TV and in magazines rarely used rock stars and music by them. It wasn't until the mid-90's that they began to capitalize on this using hip-hop and grunge look and sound anywhere they could just to make a buck.

Answer 3

I was in high school from fall of '87 to spring of '91. There was a sense of change, but it was a gradual shift like from analog to pre-digital! The analog was like late 80's and Digital was more like the - 90's. It was the begining of CD's compared to cassette tapes of the 80's. The 90's... It was pre internet and the first decent computer came out the 286 and 386 IBM! The first windows software etc. I still took typewriting lessons in Jr. high, 1986. Oh my gosh I'm showing my age! CNN was new in the 90's too! M-TV definately a product of the 80's...It felt like from 1988-1992 was paradigm shift of reality! The cold war ended in 1989 and with it the threat of global annhilation and new hope was born for europe, Al Queda and...begining of terrorism in USA (Oklahoma, World Trade Center Bombing #1, and trouble in the middle east palestinians and gulf war 1). An old era died and a new era was to start in the early 90's. Rap and Hiphop started its origins. It was the begining of cool not to be cool alternative scene etc. Gas prices went up to over $1.00 per gallon, unheard of! I remember in 1991 when it cost $1.25 per gallon and it was a big deal. It was total 90210 at my high school. Just watch a couple of the early episodes and that was basically high school in my day of age...

Answer 4

this is because trend tendencies is a cycle. it really is in uncomplicated words keeps on repeating over and yet another time. this is why the hot tendencies on the prompt might want to be basically very virtually an identical with 80's. yet they're completely an identical because trend might want to correctly be repeated yet they're recuperating it. like the upload-ons, colorings and designs.

Answer 5

You are younger than me because I was born in the 80s. Not too much diference in America's culture during this time period. 90's had the internet - 80's had floppy disk Apple computers. MTV was around in the mid 80's.

Answer 6

they were not exactly the same, but we start to see the folding of the soviet union, we see american politics get rougher, money is getting way over valued, as the markets open and we head into the techno swing of the market. we went to war with iraq at the close of the 80's but in the early 80's we were supplying him with weapons to beat iran. kids still dying of malnutrition, kids still dying from drugs, some good companies, some bad companies, some great films, no dvd's yet.

Answer 7

the 80's were fun. They were pretty laid back. Everyone wore running shoes, jeans and t-shirts. People showed up at peoples house with a movie and popcorn without planning ahead.. it was a friendly period where people weren't scared as much of society. I remember those days with fondness...

Answer 8

hair metal (motley crue, poison) got bumped for alternative (nirvana, pearl jam) it changed from being wild and crazy just having fun (late 80s) to it being cool to be depressed (early 90s).
Lots of colors and high hair changed to flannel shirts and unwashed hair.

Answer 9

They are pretty much the same in terms of clothes and music. The music started changing when the Seattle grunge came to town shortly after.