The danceable numbers had dangerous vibes
‘The music of the era was dark. Even the poppy tunes and the danceable numbers had dangerous vibes, blasphemous turns of phrase. Blame the H-bomb, urban blight, Thatcher and Reagan and Helmut Kohl, smack and coke and television (“drug of a nation…”), and the general sense that history wouldn’t so much end as come to a skidding halt, which it did on September 11th, 2001.’
— Nick Mamatas, in his introduction to his 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era anthology