there is nothing to understand at the ´80s,lol
we were that cool, we were peeing ice cubes, we thought we got cool clothes in cool colors and cool hairstyles and cool make up and it took us later only a short time to realise, how ridiculous same things have been,(but yes it was cool coming to school like that:-)) and by the way it was long ago before the times of www and we didn´t know anything about asian music, we were listening to europian and american stuff, of course the ´80s music was cool, but by looking back, I guess X got the better costumes...