Which artist defined the 80s more than any other?

probably new order or some other synthpop band

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>>71194740
>>71194740
Hands down

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>>71194818
Oh yeah?

Definitely Prince.

>>71194836
Thriller
Off The Wall

vs

1999
Purple Rain
Around the World in a Day
Parade
Sign of the Times

>>71194858
And Bad.

>>71194864
literally who

>>71194872
Who's bad?

>>71194879
Okay, I kek'd

Maybe Duran Duran.

madonna
mj
prince

then a power gap to artists like george michael, cyndi lauper, whitney houston.

>>71194953
There were no black people in Duran Duran!

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If you don't know, get out.

>>71194977
Some of the biggest black artists in the 80s (Jackson, Prince, Richie, Houston) were curiously white in their presentation in a lot of ways

>>71195023
It's a reference.

https://youtu.be/XvXdIChvDRg?t=1m49s

There's something powerfully 80s about Wham. All about conspicuous consumption and artifice only to find later it was all fake and gay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-T3encTg4

>>71194963
>Madonna
>artist
Good joke.

>>71195043
Hadn't seen that.

>>71195093
Madonna made us all her bitch in the 80s and every wannabe art popper from Grimes to Gaga to Lana is working in her shadow.

>>71195143
Madonna wasn't an artist, she started out ripping off Cyndi Lauper's look then slutted it up to the max and sang "controversial" songs to keep herself in the spotlight. She's a self-promoter.