{"id":818021,"date":"2026-08-18T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:32:12","slug":"3-songs-from-the-1980s-that-make-me-feel-invincible-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818021\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Songs From the 1980s That Make Me Feel Invincible Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire decade of music in the 1980s remains among the best eras of music of all time. Amid the sad songs, rock songs, and sweet love songs are these three powerful anthems. All out in the 1980s, they still make me feel invincible today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad\u201d by Michael Jackson<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787085130_694_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The title track of Michael Jackson\u2019s seventh solo album, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/on-this-day-in-1987-michael-jackson-topped-the-charts-with-a-song-that-wouldve-featured-prince-had-quincy-jones-gotten-his-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad<\/a>\u201d was released in 1987. The song was written by Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by American Songwriter\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad\u201d says, \u201cWell they say the sky\u2019s the limit \/ And to me that\u2019s really true \/ But my friend you have seen nothing \/ Just wait \u2019til I get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Bad\u2019 is a song about the street,\u201d Jackson later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popiconsblog.com\/pop-icons\/behind-the-song-bad-by-michael-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> in Moonwalk, his 1988 autobiography. \u201cIt\u2019s about this kid from a bad neighborhood who gets to go away to a private school. He comes back to the old neighborhood when he\u2019s on a break from school, and the kids from the neighborhood start giving him trouble. He sings, \u2018I\u2019m bad, you\u2019re bad, who\u2019s bad, who\u2019s the best?\u2019 He\u2019s saying when you\u2019re strong and good, then you\u2019re bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLivin\u2019 On A Prayer\u201d by Bon Jovi<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784675890_242_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bon Jovi dominated the 1980s with a lot of powerful rock songs, including \u201cLivin\u2019 On A Prayer\u201d. The song, written by band members Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, along with Desmond Child, is part of Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi\u2019s third studio album.<\/p>\n<p>A story song about a young couple, Tommy and Gina, surviving only on love, \u201cLivin\u2019 On A Prayer\u201d says, \u201cWhoa, we\u2019re halfway there \/ Whoa, living on a prayer \/ Take my hand, we\u2019ll make it, I swear \/ Whoa, living on a prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, when the three writers began writing \u201cLivin\u2019 On A Prayer\u201d, it started as a <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/why-we-almost-lived-in-a-world-without-bon-jovis-livin-on-a-prayer-at-least-as-we-know-it-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">piano ballad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I Go Again\u201d by Whitesnake<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784675891_326_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An anthem of empowerment if there ever was one, Whitesnake\u2019s \u201cHere I Go Again\u201d first came out in 1982. The song, written by the band\u2019s own David Coverdale and Bernie Marsden, is on Whitesnake\u2019s Saints &amp; Sinners record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I Go Again\u201d says, \u201c\u2019Cause I know what it means \/ To walk along the lonely street of dreams \/ Here I go again on my own \/ Goin\u2019 down the only road I\u2019ve ever known \/ Like a hobo I was born to walk alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cHere I Go Again\u201d barely cracked the Top 35 at radio when it was first released. The band later released an updated version of the song in 1987. The new take on the song is on their eponymous record, also out in 1987. That version became a Top 5 hit in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Bob King\/Redferns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entire decade of music in the 1980s remains among the best eras of music of all time.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[20278,2617,88,216],"class_list":["post-818021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1980s","tag-classic-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}