Which brings us, improbably, to the cultural character of the moment, Stranger Things. Specifically, great, old music. Music that Stranger Things, set in the late 1980s, has planted into the minds of children raised not on radio, but on recommendation engines. For most of modern history, culture was passed down. But what Stranger Things reveals is something else as well: that culture now reaches children not as inheritance, but as environment.

Source: Irish Examiner February 02, 2026 01:30 UTC