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According to SR-71's website , Bowling for Soup's Radio listeners and topped the charts. The song describes a woman, Debbie, who is Obsessed with the Pop Culture of 1985 after her dreams of becoming an Actress and Celebrity as a twenty-something in the 1980s failed to materialize. (In the SR-71 version, the reason given is "the Rubber broke", implying an unplanned Pregnancy .) The song deals with themes like growth and maturity, lost dreams and changing pop culture via the passage of time. She has trouble dealing with her life and her Teenage children due to her preoccupation with the past. (According to Reddick, the song was originally about 1984 , but "1985 rhymes better with "preoccupied". {Link without Title} ) The Bowling for Soup Music Video Parodies famous videos from early MTV era, including Robert Palmer 's "Addicted to Love" video, George Michael 's "Faith" video, Whitesnake 's "Is This Love" video, and directly parodies Mötley Crüe . The song has attracted a significant Pre-teen audience, even though no one in that group remembers the year 1985 . A version with "children-rated" lyrics is played on Radio Disney , where, for example, the line "one Prozac a day" is replaced with "one workout a day." The edited version is produced by Kidz Bop ; however, it initially retained the line "Only been with one man; what happened to her plan?" (this has since been changed; now it says "Loved only one man" but the shorter line is stretched in an awkward manner when the song is played so that it is hard to tell what is really being said). The song and video are also popular with the generation of people currently in their 30s or early 40s as nostalgia for the pop culture of their youth, although the song makes no effort to imitate the style of the 1980s, with the exception of the line "on the radio", which resembles the Timbre of the voice singing the verses in the Buggles ' " Video Killed The Radio Star ", known for being the first video ever played on MTV in 1981 ; this may or may not be intentional. According to Bowling's Reddick, part of the song's cross-generational appeal comes from the fact that many of his band's fans are teenagers, and their parents shared many of the experiences "Debbie" has fixated on. PARODIES
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