Everyone will have nostalgia for their youth. There is nothing special about the 80s or 90s from that regard, just like there was nothing all that special about the “greatest generation” 40s and 50s no matter how much advertisers and the mass media were jerking off Baby Boomers about it 20-30 years ago.

they're called the greatest generation because they went off to fight literal
literal nazis, and then despite the well documented horrors of what they had seen and personal trauma, came home and just fucking
got on with it, which in the case of the US was building industries that supplied 90% of the planet and in the case of europe was rebuilding the bombed out husks of cities under enormous scarcity and rationing, and building the systems to try and prevent such a thing ever happening again (shaky, but still holding up).
not because people are super fucking into vera lyn, smh