{"id":626,"date":"2013-11-13T23:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2013-11-17T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T00:27:12","slug":"the-most-80s-song-of-all-time-or-the-most-80s-song-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"The Most 80s Song of All Time, or, The Most 80s Song of the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why &#8220;Somebody&#8217;s Watching Me&#8221; by &#8220;Rockwell&#8221; is the most 80s song of all time (or at least the most 80s song of the 80s)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. One-hit wonder in a big way. What happened to Rockwell?<\/p>\n<p>2. One-name wonder. Like Sting, Slash, Prince, and Madonna.<\/p>\n<p>3. It&#8217;s paranoid.<\/p>\n<p>4. Half-assed rapping integrated into a pop song in the manner of Blondie&#8217;s &#8220;Rapture&#8221; or Murray Head&#8217;s &#8220;One Night in Bangkok.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. Michael Jackson sings on it. The <em>still-black<\/em> Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>6. It appears in the pilot of <em>Miami Vice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>7. Synthesizers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627\" alt=\"Geometric objects, primary colors, fake pink paint splatters, and severe, post-1970s hair.\" src=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockwell-300x284.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockwell-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rockwell.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Askew geometric objects, primary colors, fake pink paint splatters, and severe, post-1970s hair.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;Somebody&#8217;s Watching Me&#8221; by &#8220;Rockwell&#8221; is the most 80s song of all time (or at least the most 80s song of the 80s) 1. One-hit wonder in a big way. What happened to Rockwell? 2. One-name wonder. Like Sting, Slash, Prince, and Madonna. 3. It&#8217;s paranoid. 4. Half-assed rapping integrated into a pop song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}