It really is hip to be square.

This is a sponsored post for Toyota.

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Remember the 80’s? You know when we were busy hair-spraying our fringes to gain great heights? Shoulder pads were way cool, and scrunchies were in their prime?

If you were born way after the 1980’s and can’t remember a thing, you can leave now. You can take your youthful self and skip off into the sunset, or hang around and laugh at us old people.

In the 80’s I was getting up early for Saturday cartoons {Pound Puppies anyone?} and a little bit of rage too, spent my time engrossed in the Babysitter Club books, had a kick-butt eraser collection, owned far too many pairs of colourful bike shorts and spent my afternoons painting my canvas shoes with puff paints. And everybody wanted to be… down at Fraggle Rock. Remember? Oh, and there was that one time I rocked a hawt crimped side pony tail. I was so cool, it hurt.

The 80’s were good. And now that your head is probably in reminiscing mode, remember how good the music was? Well, apart from ‘Don’t worry, be happy’. We might all want to forget that one.

Isn’t it time that we brought back that good stuff, if only for a moment? I don’t mean teasing your fringe to dizzying heights and donning a banana clip. I mean this.

Do you remember this song?

I’ll wait while you finish bopping along. It’s OK, I know you did. I did too, even the 4th time I heard it. Toyota recently revealed that ad above {which reminds me of that movie What to expect when you’re expecting, GOLD} and the music behind it is Hip To Be Square by Huey Lewis. They’re on a mission to get the song on the charts again for just one week. It’ll be like us ‘kids’ are taking back what’s ours, owning the number 1 spot for just one week. Say goodbye Bieber, Bon Voyage Macklemore and Rihanna… step aside. Huey is coming back baby. You can download the song here.

Imagine if we did indeed get it to number 1. Huey would probably get a phonecall, while sitting up in his mansion and they’d tell him, “Your song just made number 1”.

I’m thinking he’d bust out a few fist punches, pour a beverage and ponder just how hip he really is. {Is it bad that I had to actually Google to see if Huey Lewis is still alive? I’m that clueless! For the record, he is}.

What were you doing in the 80s?

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58 thoughts on “It really is hip to be square.”

  1. I was born in 1986 so I pretty much remember zilch about the 80s! Maybe a good thing? Fashion wise, that is 🙂

      • Yes, one of my memories of the 80s was sitting in front of Rage or the radio and pressing record on the tape deck to record our favourite songs… Boris Breakfast Club, Babysitters Club books, puff paints on canvas shoes, spoky dokies on our bike wheels (or pegged cardboard as our home made version!), rahrah skirts, bubble skirts and teased fringes… oh the memories!

  2. I was more of an early 90s kid but my one roll over from the 80s is that it took me until about 2009 to stop calling my iPod a ‘walkman’. So embarrassing.

  3. Saw an advert for a “remembering the 80’s” style show on tv yesterday. I’m looking forward to having a good laugh at myself!

  4. The 80’s were the best, for me more the late 80’s (I left high school in 89) Best music and def best movies…..Breakfast club is still may favourite 🙂 And the fashion, well some of its coming back. SOME of it. Probably cant see the puffed sleeve, apricot taffeta I rocked at my leavers dinner coming back!

      • Im going to give it a shot. Hubby and I are both turning 40 this year. Our birthdays are close so we are having an joint party, an 80th .The theme 80’s leavers dinner. Ive dragged out the taffy and squeezed myself into it. It still fits. I cant breath that well, but it fits 🙂 So it WILL be making a comeback.

  5. I love this flash back in time. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to play the video in the USA, but I remember the song. I saw Huey Lewis and the News in concert years ago.

  6. POUND PUPPIES! I also loved Fluppy Dogs & the annual screening of the Cabbage Patch Christmas Special. When I was in Grade 7 I had my pen license revoked for writing hearts instead of dots on my “I” the way Stacey did in TBSC. Also loved Sweet Valley High Books. Sigh.

  7. I LOVED The Baby Sitters Club!! I had at least 100 of the books!! My niece has just gotten into them and I have been buying them for her. I’m not going to lie though, I read them first before I give them to her!!

  8. uhm i like the song ‘don’t worry be happy’ 🙂 and shoulder pads imo SHOULD GO AWAY FOREVER!!!!!!!

  9. That ad is funny, very ‘what to expect’ 🙂 Though I was born in the 80’s my memories are more from the 90’s so, sorry, so side pony’s for me 🙂

  10. I have no idea what I was doing in the 80’s, but I am considering buying a Camry purely because of that ad!

  11. I love, love, love this ad and I reckon it’s Huey who does it for me! I was working in the 80s, rockin those power suits – pencil skirts, huge shoulder pads, white tights! I was still buying vinyl and cassettes. I was deeply suspicious of CDS! Music was great – Elvis Costello, The Clash, INXS, Paul Simon’s Graceland, Madness, Prince, Madonna, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and I’m getting way to excited! Loved the 80s!

  12. Evidently this video is not available in my country, according to when I tap to play it. But I too was fond of the Babysitters Club 🙂

  13. Great post!! I was wearing puff ball and rara skirts, patent leather black shoes and crimping my hair! Best music ever was in the 80’s and its what my kids are subjected to in the car at loud volumes! Red from Fraggle Rock was my fav and i still have my Care Bear! Love the 80’s! x

  14. Wearing a blue crop top with black polkadots, matching leggings and a side pony. Rockin’ it like it’s umm 1980-something. I was teased but looking back I was so cool. So hip.

  15. I loved the 80’s! We thought we were so cool in our Madonna gear – lace fingerless gloves, rara skirts, lace cropped leggings, and big bows in our puffy hair.
    Back to the Future was on tv recently, and that was mega confusing, trying to explain to my kids that it was set in 1985, which was the present day, but is now the past. and 2015 was the far off future with hover boards!

  16. Early 80’s I was a kid and all was great until around 14 and then things got a bit icky so lets just push the FF button until I graduated HS in 88, got my first car (a bas ass truck) and my first job as a hostess at a restaurant soon after.

    I rocked leg warmers, was a master at double dutch, played outside everyday and had an absolute kickass childhood. Sidenote: I know almost every rock and country western song made in the 80’s. My goodness, how can I be old enough to have been a child in the early 80’s?

  17. I was born in 1986, with three older siblings born in the mid 70’s-early 80’s so I feel as if I’m an 80’s kid even though I can’t remember much until about 89-90. Puff paint YES, side crimped ponytail YES, neon happy pants YES. I believe I rocked some orange striped overalls at a roller skating rink. You reminded me about Pound Puppies, YES!

  18. I started school at the end of the 80’s, so most of my clearer childhood memories are from the 90’s. But I do remember that I had a hula hoop and we jumped on the twistband in the 80’s and I used to watch Maya the Bee. These days I do think that most of the best music comes from the 80’s rock scene!

  19. I’m so with you Chantelle.. Although I was in my first decade of life for the 80’s so the 90’s grunge scene is more vivid in my memories as far as music goes. But the hair OMG did I have a fringe and the huge boofy perm! 🙂

  20. What was I doing in the 80s? I’ll give you a clue…I wore mostly maternity clothes and nursing bras and managed to get a wavy/ mullety perm just once!

  21. Rocking the Kazbah whilst roller skating with a very lacquered fringe and double padded shoulders. Well that was the first two years of the 80’s. After that I entered the work force and got my licence so was even cooler driving my Nappy Brown Toyota Corolla about with the stereo blaring INXS. Oh, those were the days 🙂

  22. Got married in 1982, first child 1985 and second child in 1987…busy being a mama while working as a nurse.

  23. Oh no fair. I tried to watch the video but it says, “This video is not available in your country.” What the heck? Weird. Anyway, I wasn’t born until 1988 but I guess my family was a bit behind. Because I was totally using puff paint, collecting erasers, and reading Babysitter Club books in the early 90s.

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