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00:008 of the best songs straight from 1983 we're still listening to
00:04Number 8. Down Under
00:06Men at Work converted Australian identity into pop capital
00:11Irresistible Flute Hook carried cultural commentary and expanded global soft power
00:16Number 7. Let's Dance
00:19Bowie and Niall Rogers engineered avant-garde commercialism
00:23Stevie Ray Vaughan's blues cut through
00:26while videos critiqued colonialism within MTV's spectacle
00:29Number 6. Maniac
00:32Michael Cembello's track transformed from slasher inspiration to empowerment
00:37fusing synth arpeggios with fitness culture via flashdance's defining montage
00:42Number 5. Every Breath You Take
00:45The police disguised surveillance as devotion
00:48pristine minimalism masked menace enabling decades of romantic misreadings at weddings
00:54Number 4. Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
00:57Eurythmics Humanized Synths
01:00Annie Lennox Weaponized Androgyny
01:02challenging gender norms through hypnotic pulses and subversive surreal video imagery
01:07Number 3. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
01:10Culture Club smuggled vulnerability and queer visibility into homes
01:15marrying reggae-infused pop with Boy George's transformative gender-fluid presentation
01:20Number 2. Come On Eileen
01:23Dexus-fused Celtic folk and working-class aesthetics rebelling against synth dominance with exhilarating builds and thrift store defiance
01:31Number 1. Flashdance
01:34What a Feeling
01:36Irene Cara's anthem packaged aspirational struggle into glossy synth euphoria, selling individual triumph while obscuring systemic barriers
01:44number 2. Powerdance
01:45Number 2.
01:46Like this tool you need to somehow rotate
01:47Number 2.
01:49Good Truth
01:50You're the Best
01:51You're the Best
01:53I'm Tony
01:54Angry Birds
01:55Mr.
01:57You're the Best
02:00I want to
02:01You're the Best
02:02And
02:04A
02:04I want to
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