The movement is also popular among the younger generation: children born in the '80s and early '90s appear to have nostalgia for the era, albeit in a more "retro" way since they were too young to experience it or were not even born yet.
- Bowling For Soup , a popular band of the 2000s , released a song titled " 1985 ", a very popular song among pre-teens and teens in the mid-2000s. It's also popular among nostalgic fans in their late 30s and early 40s. The song is about the longings of a bored 40-ish mother of teenagers for the dreamy days of her early 20-ish youth before she settled down. Its video also parodies many popular music videos of the era
- Electroclash , a common trend in 80s music which features very generic computer-like sounds, reappeared in popular music.
- '' The Suburbans '' was a 1999 drama that satirized the 80s revival hype of the time.
- I Love The 80s a BBC produced series, it documented many of the fads, movies, television, news & events, and trends that happened during the decade. It also featured many appearances by popular celebrities sharing their opinions on each topic. It had the highest ratings of all the other I Love The... series and had two major sequel versions, I Love The 80s Strikes Back and I Love The 80s 3D .
- Slow, escalating return of popular 1980s fashion motifs in popular fashion. This includes the preppie and new wave styles and their repopularization in the 2000s. As well, bright and imposing colors, a much more tailored/imposing/composed look, the prevalence of daringly cut jackets and high waists, and the impending (from 2006 February Fashion Week) reintroduction of leggings and the "puffy" look. Hoop Earrings also make a comeback
- The return of the gross-out comedy, a la Porky's , as viable in film following American Pie in 1999.
- Big hair, including the Mullet returns slightly, and an excess of colorful makeup and rouge becomes popular again.
- The hour-long television drama and primetime Soap become popular again.
- 1980s-inspired motifs and designs have become fairly regularly used in popular culture.
- Overprocessed, loud, slow music has come increasingly into fashion, echoing 1980s Hair Metal .
- Nostalgia for Old-Skool video games and Arcade culture, particularly Emulators , particularly the MAME system became popular as a result.
- Well known video game publisher who had arcade game background during the 80's released compilation games, namely Capcom Generations . Many of them were released prior to the retro movement.
- "Fun in the sun" images become popular again.
- '' Napoleon Dynamite '' featured a community stuck in the 1980s. The fashion, hairstyles, decor, and appliances were all of Eighties-vintage. The character of Uncle Rico was constantly expressing his nostalgia for his high school days "back in '82."
- 1980s cartoons shirt designs
- , a PlayStation 2 game taking place in 1986 and complete with several albums worth of 80's tunes.
- In the that only gained popularity in the late 1990s-early 2000s, but the music is all 1980s pop and the decor is usually indicative of 1980s pop culture icons.
- Dance acts covering 80's hits between 2002 and 2004 which prior to that many hard rock and metal acts had already done at the start of the revival started by Limp Bizkit covers George Michael 's "Faith.".
- Eric Prydz samples Steve Winwood 's "Valerie" for the song "Call on Me." which has started a trend of dance acts using 80's hit as a sample loop.
- Trio 's "Da Da Da (I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me)" and Styx 's "Mr. Roboto" were used in Volkswagen commercials in the late 1990s .
- Pizza Hut uses a parady of the Go-Go's song ''"We Got the Beat"'' in their commercial with "''We Got the Meat''"
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