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Who ever thought the Village People were the right group to sing a song called "Ready For The 80's"? That's like when Air Supply sang, "I can make all the stadiums rock!"
I remember the Village People performing this song on TV on New Year's Eve to ring in 1980. Much as the '70s were the decade of the Bee Gees, the '80s were going to be the decade of the Village People! The nation's youth were probably buying up construction worker and cowboy outfits after seeing that performance.
Actually, not quite. "Ready For The 80's" was the group's last chart appearance. They weren't ready for the '80s! This single actually charted months after Disco Demolition Night. By the time it charted, the Hot 100 was starting to look more like an '80s chart, so they were lucky the record even reached #52.
Although the Village People never charted again, you'd still occasionally see them mentioned. When I was in high school, a teacher gave us an old Village People word search to work on after we finished our busywork. By then, it was the '90s, which the Village People weren't ready for either.
Years later, the cop from the Village People got in trouble for a series of run-ins with the law. He gave police a fake name during one of the incidents, but the police recognized him as the Village People cop.
I don't know of anyone making a song about being ready for the 2020s. If they did, it's already aged poorly.
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