“Our confusion about how to think about 80s music ...”
Why do we need to think about 80’s music, much less know “how to think about it”?
And beyond that, what does how to think about any music defined by time period of product release even mean?
Academic leftists think like this, always needing to know how to think about things.
Some of it can be navel gazing, but sometimes it leads to interesting insights.