Join me as I create a themed musical playlist featuring songs by artists born in 1958 who helped shape the cultural shift that defined the 1980s!

Let's celebrate the artists who share the same birth year, consider how shared timing became cultural momentum, and cherish how a handful of voices, shaped by the same era, helped shape ours in return—as we make a mixtape!

Side A: Bad Reputation by Joan Jett, Kiss Me Deadly by Lita Ford, Off the Wall by Michael Jackson, Like a Virgin by Madonna, and Sign o' the Times by Prince

Side B: Sweet Love by Anita Baker, She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby, Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush, Two of Hearts by Stacey Q, and Heaven Is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle

Join me as I create a themed musical playlist featuring songs by artists often mislabeled and misremembered in the U.S. as one-hit wonders!

Let's reacquaint ourselves with artists who were anything but one-hit, revisit the tracks that both defined and confined their careers, and reframe memory over myth—as we make a mixtape!

Side A: I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls, You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive, The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats, Your Love by The Outfield, and Take on Me by A-ha

Side B: What's on Your Mind by Information Society, 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone, Obsession by Animotion, Our House by Madness, and Harden My Heart by Quarterflash

Join me as I create a themed musical playlist featuring songs by artists that both captured the public's ear and split opinion just as sharply!

Let's acknowledge the hits everyone knows but no one can agree on, address the songs that defined pop culture and divided listeners at every turn, and accept that popularity and unity rarely go hand in hand—as we make a mixtape!

Side A: We Built This City by Starship, Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison, The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh, Kokomo by The Beach Boys, and Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves

Side B: I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder, Lean on Me by Club Nouveau, Mickey by Toni Basil, Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, and Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin