About three years ago, I was in a local supermarket while they were playing a contemporary pop song. It wasn’t the sort of thing I would normally listen to, but there was something in the vocal delivery that caught my attention. It seemed otherworldly and tota disconnected to the song. I thought that I would never hear the song again, but I accidentally came across it again. It was ‘One Kiss’ by Dua Lipa. The weird thing is that the only way I could describe it was that it came from an ‘alternative 1983.’ I’ve no idea why that term came into my head.
Fast forward to around earlier this summer, and I start thinking about that song again, and ‘alternative 1983.’ I was in town, in our local Waterstones, when I pick up a book, Garth Nix’s ‘The Left-Handed Booksellers Of London.’ The title caught my attention, as it sounded like a novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. When I read the blurb on the back, it said it was set in an alternative 1983 London!
I haven’t been on the forum for a while, but when I came on last week, I was really taKen with the thread, ‘Meeting Nicola’, set in June 1983. Then yesterday, again in our local Waterstones, I saw a book called ‘Malibu Rising’, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, set in….1983!
And then this morning, I come across the thread, ‘Dummy Space Shuttle’, which, like ‘Meeting Nicola’, is set in June 1983!
I feel 1983 calling to me!
