Valentine's Day Mix Tape from Exo

Exo has created an old school mix tape Valentine flash experience online—brilliant, down to the laughing mother in the background (oh, well do I remember being indignant while trying to do something awesome which resulted in parental or sibling ridicule), the ringing phone, waiting for the song to come on the radio, and the unicorn scribbles.

Meanwhile, I'm sure it's just because I'm an 80s child but my little heart went pitty pat when the kid making the mix said "Do you want to go to the arcade with me sometime?" Seriously, grown men should start using that line. That would be a sweet Valentine. And points for the Hall n' Oates and that goddamned Terrence Trent D'arby song we all listened to religiously in junior high. And I admit that once my cabinmates and I lipsynched an entire routine to the DiVynls at summer camp (we touched our NOSES to keep it PG). And oh, how we all scorned Billy Ray Cyrus. The 7th grade mixer where a good friend had her first slow-dance to that awful Phil Collins song seems like yesterday. Damn, I think I'm the target audience for this thing. Well, fine. Loving every minute of it.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of us who lived through the 80s and to the unicorns who ran through the rainbow pastures of our weird little day-glo dreams.