Spontaneously bursting into tears while listening to 80s music

[Anonymous]

I've been listening to my 80s playlists a lot lately and they're just so evocative of that time and place in my life that I'll well up with tears. This (thank god) while I'm alone and just puttering around the house late at night or what have you. Mind you, I'm not crying to sad love ballads. "Let's Dance" by Bowie will do it. What gives? Anyone else do this? I'm 45, FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Perimenopause

[Anonymous]

Me too when they play them on radio. Love the music and the memories

[Anonymous]

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been listening to my 80s playlists a lot lately and they're just so evocative of that time and place in my life that I'll well up with tears. This (thank god) while I'm alone and just puttering around the house late at night or what have you. Mind you, I'm not crying to sad love ballads. "Let's Dance" by Bowie will do it. What gives? Anyone else do this? I'm 45, FWIW.

I'm 46. I created an 80s hair band playlist today. Took me back.

[Anonymous]

I'm 46 too. Some of those 80s songs completely stop me in my tracks - so I completely understand where you're coming from.

The ones that get me most were the ones I remember an old BF putting on a mixed tape, in the hope to win me back.

"I believe in miracles, since you came along, you sexy thing" by Hot Chocolate

and similar...

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks, all. Good to know I'm not a total nut. My life was so carefree then and it's anything but that now. Every time I hear Pretty in Pink by Psych Furs I just about lose it.

[Anonymous]

I get it OP. I'm 47. Sometimes 70s music takes me back to childhood and that can make me melancholy too.

[Anonymous]

You would've been a teen, so lots of hormones then. I was in my twenties, so nostalgia, but not the angst.

[Anonymous]

I'm 32 and I do this. Not really about 80s songs, but plenty of 90s and 2000s songs.

Also Bonnie Raitt "I can't make you love me"...bawl my eyes out. Every. Single. Time.

[Anonymous]

Alphaville's "Forever Young". Even more poignant now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 32 and I do this. Not really about 80s songs, but plenty of 90s and 2000s songs.

Also Bonnie Raitt "I can't make you love me"...bawl my eyes out. Every. Single. Time.

THAT is an emotional song.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alphaville's "Forever Young". Even more poignant now.

Oh, YES.

[Anonymous]

I am 42 and about a year ago I stopped enjoying most modern music and listen to more and more from the 80s...then I realized oh my god I am becoming my parents!

[Anonymous]

I'm 45. Can't get rid of my satellite radio because I need my 80s station!