I’m All Out of Love

I think probably since I saw Deadpool 2 two weeks ago, that goddamn Air Supply song keeps popping up in my head, and mostly at the …

… I’m so lost without you …

… worst times. Brushing my teeth. Trying to write something at work. Riding my bicycle. Driving the …

… I know you were right …

… car.

Ugh. But it got me thinking about music from that time period. Song came out in 1980, genre was “soft rock.”

Soft rock? The fu …

Anyway, while I was thinking about it, I was trying to imagine the whole Air Supply thing, because that was a huge band at the time. I don’t get it. How did they attract a following? What were those concerts like? A bunch of people in pastel polos swaying with their big permed hair …

… believing for so long …

… You know, when I put it that way, it sounds like some sort of 80s cult gathering.

Okay, but seriously, I know soft rock was a huge thing, I just can’t wrap my brain around the cultural conditions that led to that. There was good real rock at the time, and you were only a year from Kill ‘Em All. I can’t imagine a world where 20 and 30 somethings would be into Air Supply. I mean, it’s funny now in Deadpool, but it’s being used …

… I’m all out of love, what am I without you …

… ironically. Those people would be today’s Hipsters. … Ooooooh. Now I get it.That makes perfect sense.

The past couple of weekends, the wife and I have been in a lot of restaurants and a disproportionate number of them were playing ’80s music. There were some good songs from that decade, but mostly, I think when people remember it fondly that’s just nostalgia fucking with them. Fuck nostalgia. It always hurts, never helps.

… I can’t be too late to say that I was so wrong.