It's not giant when everyone is doing it: it's just normal.

And what do you have against letting your soul glo? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=961x0NmyHKE

I find Lionel Richie a phenomenon. The hair and moustache look weird now, but his songs stand the test of time.

Richie closing out the 1984 Olympics was most excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zj7C3GRj7s

Somewhere in here you can hear Jim McKay explaining the difference between "poppers" and "break dancers" and it is just awesome.

“Lionel Richie's Hello is the Battleship Potemkin of rock music videos...”

~ Humphrey B. Flaubert, TISM, If You're Not Famous at Fourteen, You're Finished - De RigueurMortis (2001)

+1, but then my copy of Rick James' Street Songs has grooves cut into it, so what do I know of music?

A lot of things have always been pretty boring. People wanting to be seen were less likely to look boring though, so there's a selection effect there.

It's true. I knew a person who got stopped by customs on an international flight because they thought no person could conceivably have 12 cans of hair spray in their luggage for innocent purposes (she did- for creating the massive 80s hair).

I wonder how anyone got anything done in those days. It must take hours and tens of dollars in hair spray every day to get your hair that big

as they say about anime characters -- higher the hair, closer to god