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kontextmaschine:

Now appreciating that the ‘80s Florida thing wasn’t from Miami Vice, that and “yacht rock” were responding to a real period vogue, like the late '70s Colorado thing or maybe '90s Seattle. Like, this:

was from 1982 (Miami Vice debuted '84), released as a single with the duh-its-about-cocaine White Line Fever on the B-side

whats the 70s colorado thing

The music of John Denver, the way the macguffin of Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was cases of Coors. It was a whole thing!