Friends, as a massive new wave fan, I have developed a theory: Every new wave song is somewhere between punk, goth, and disco.

My proof:

Big thanks to @dartheritis for their help

The B-52's

fun facts

"Love Shack" was inspired by a real place-- a cabin in Atlanta, Georgia. It's where the band wrote "Rock Lobster". Unfortunately, the original love shack burned down in 2004.

"Video Killed The Radio Star" is about musicians whose careers were destroyed because they would not translate visually to television. Adequate to this theme, the music video for this song was famously the first aired on MTV, at 12:01AM on August 1st, 1981.

Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson of The B-52's performimg at Zellerbach Auditorium on October 14, 1980

“Later we [Culture Club] played with them a few times and they had the most unique, hypnotic sound. It’s trashy Americana, John Waters, Divine, the Shangri-La’s, high camp and bubblegum punk. The beat is everything. Fred always reminded me of Dr Zachary Smith from Lost in Space. I never thought about whether the B-52’s had a gay angle. They were just against rules in general – taking classic American kitsch and giving it a punk, space-age irreverence, like a beautiful car crash with pop surrealism. They were very camp but very funky: always on it, melodic but effortlessly free. It’s the sort of pop music that I want to hear.”

/ Boy George reflecting on the B-52’s in The Guardian /

Born on this day: happy 76th birthday to the sublime Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948) - singer, multi-instrumentalist, bouffant wig enthusiast and one of the founding members of Athens, Georgia’s essential post-punk party band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s spine-tingling dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music. Pictured: Pierson captured by Lynn Goldsmith in the early 1980s.

New Wave/Post Punk musicians from England: Angry/depressed children. Need a nap and much therapy.

New Waves/Post Punk musicians from the U.S.: Grown ass adults with a wife and bills to pay. Also needs a nap and much therapy.

The song "There's a Moon in the Sky (Called The Moon)" by the B-52s sounds like a song that Anya Forger would make up to show her massive songwriting talent and at home Yor would be her backup singer and Loid would be politely be like, "wow. That was great, honey." But then she would try to perform it again at school with Becky and Damien would be like "your song sucks" and Anya would have a self-esteem crisis about the whole thing for a month

The B-52's

still can’t believe my friend doesn’t fuck with rock lobster. “It’s sounds weird” BOOOOOO 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅