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Remember the ’80s? Ah, those long-ago days when MTV actually showed music videos and had the occasional black screen when someone was changing a videotape, and the five original VJs (can you name them all without Googling it?) ruled our lives, spinning videos that were, in the beginning at least, mostly concert footage outtakes or whatever else they could get their hands on.

In 1983, MTV was two years old, a toddler tottering around on unsteady feet, but just starting to get the hang of it. I was a freshman in high school, and

Joe Eszterhaus and Paul Verhoeven were still 12 years away from unleashing Showgirls on the world. We’d been inspired by Fame just three years earlier, the world was ripe for another dance musical — and a film called Flashdance — an unlikely Cinderella story about a blue collar girl who works as a welder by day and an exotic dancer (the kind who doesn’t take her clothes off) by night, while dreaming of a better life as a ballerina — took the world by storm.

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Original post by Kim Voynar