When is Heathers supposed to be set?
I ask because they're wearing what seem like 80s clothes to me, and nobody texts or uses any form of technology that would be around in a later period, and I know the OG movie is 80s themed, but then Heather mentions giving away CDs...
I know it's just a convenient rhyme but for some reason it really bugged me
Posted Sep 5, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC
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“September 1, 1989. Dear Diary…”
See, I remember this. But also...why did they include the line about CDs?
CDs were first released in the early 80s, like 82/83.
I'm aware.
They weren't popular or common at all until the 90s. I was born in 1991 and nobody I knew regularly bought them until around 1998/1999 and even then cassettes were sold alongside CDs long into the early 2000s.
My family had very little money and were not early adopters… and we got our first CD player in 1987. By 1989 I think CDs were more popular than records and cassettes.
Ok I checked: according to this CDs overtook vinyl in 1988 and cassettes in 1991. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine
Ok I checked: according to this CDs overtook vinyl in 1988 and cassettes in 1991. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine