"Before Are "Friends" Electric?: How Synth-Pop Became Synth-Pop" #TrashTheory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm__xDOWxDc
"A vision of the future that never properly arrived, Synth-pop was an ever present staple of the British charts in the 1980s. A canny fusion of pop-suss and technological invention, its height reflected the increased affordability of commercial synthesizers from the late 1970s onward.