Thanks to Gen Xers reliving their youth and millennials who’ve “discovered” the New Wave era of big hair, Spandex and synth-driven pop and deemed it retro and cool, ’80s music is, like, totally back.

Considering music often holds a specific energy in our lives, offering chances to appreciate nostalgia and reduce our stress in mundane moments, according to Professor Shahram Heshmat, it’s not ...