Matt Friedman of the Star-Telegram writes that many young adults in their 20’s are collecting everything 1980’s:
Not long ago, a 26-year-old woman went wild when she met Samantha Newark, the voice of a glam-rocking cartoon character named Jem who captivated little girls in the 1980s in the show Jem and the Holograms. The fan jumped up and down.
As this new generation — not quite X, not quite Y — comes of age, their obscure pop-culture heroes are beginning to inch aside the baby boom favorites that still dominate America’s cultural conversation.