All over the world, rebels are checking each other out on the airwaves and plundering each other’s tricks. Radical ideas about art, gender, race, sexuality are in the air. Except music video accidentally makes stars out of New Romantic provocateurs like Duran Duran, ABC, and Culture Club. That upstart network MTV has 24 hours a day to fill, so it’s forced to play these art-fop weirdos nobody’s heard of, since they’re the ones making videos. 1982 kicks off the cross-cultural mix-and-match future we’re all living in now. But the real fun is happening on the radio, where crazy new sounds are mutating and evolving at warp speed. Sure, you can go to the movies and see E.T. After 1982, music will never be the same. So do some of history’s most tragic haircuts. New stars, new beats, new noises explode every week on MTV. Prince claims his throne as the Coolest Man Alive. Hip-hop takes over with “The Message” and “Planet Rock.” New Wave synth-pop invades the Top 40. One of the most experimental, innovative, insanely abundant music years ever. Welcome to 1982: the year that invented pop music as we know it today.
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