“Song For A Future Generation” by The B-52's

"Song For A Future Generation" came off Whammy!, the B-52's third album, in 1983, and it's the band's party spirit pointed at the future: a goofy parade of mythic couples, pop-culture royalty among them, pairing off to populate the world to come. Steven Stanley produced it, and all five members share the writing credit, from Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson to Keith Strickland and the Wilsons, Cindy and Ricky.

It's a real ensemble piece, too, the first B-52's song with more than three members taking lead vocals, trading lines over a chirpy new wave bounce. The video went all in: podiums, swings, a Brady Bunch split screen, and the women of the band in outrageous wigs, one of golden tinsel, one built on chicken wire and nicknamed "the bird cage", and a bouffant crowned with a giant bow made of wig hair.

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