History Main / ValuesResonance

* ''Music/TheClash'': "Guns of Brixton", with it's message of isolation, paranoia and fear of authorities in general and police brutality in particular, among young black men, rings every bit as true, if not moreso, in the US of 2023 as it did in the UK in the '80s.

** '''Charlie Brown having girls play on his baseball team''', even before Little League started letting girls play.

** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E3TheShelter The Shelter]]" is a good example, whose message is somewhat similar to 'The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street', showing how when people turn on each other in times of crisis, it only leads to destruction. Incidentally, "The Shelter" is one of only a few episodes that keeps a fully realistic setting (no science fiction or supernatural elements), driving the point home that much harder due to the fact that it comes off as something that could actually happen in real life.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEa9bzeTu0 2020 version]] is even more tragic, due to the fact that a song that was released in 1995 is still relevant today and the video itself adds in footage of the worldwide [[UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement Black Lives Matter]] protests that had occured that year just too close to home.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEa9bzeTu0 2020 version]] i even more tragic, due to the fact that a song that was released in 1995 is still relevant today and the video itself adds in footage of the worldwide [[UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement Black Lives Matter]] protests that had occured that year just too close to home.

* "Same Ol Situation" by Music/MotleyCrue is about a guy whose ex-girlfriend turns out to be a lesbian and goes off to marry her girlfriend with the guy ultimately taking it in stride and being OK with it. The chorus drives it home even more with saying that a gay marriage is no more different then a hetero one. For a song like this to come out in 1989 when gay relationships(and especially the very idea of gay marriage)were still very much being demonized by mainstream society(mainly due to the ongoing AIDS crisis which was often referred to as "the gay disease") is pretty remarkable and it holds up pretty well as a result.

* The 1995 song "Run Away" encourages people to reject the mentalities of modern society: glorifying meaningless sex, being controlled by money, keeping a facade of being perfect to the outside world while having no soul inside, trusting the government, and instead think for yourself and embrace freedom. This lifestyle has become more glorified than ever in the 2020s, so the message resonates strongly.

** The film had quite about of criticism about how it's a prince rescuing a DamselInDistress. However, many have pointed out that the three good Fairies and Maleficent all have their own distinct personalities and drive the film's events. In fact, the prince needed ''the fairies' help'' to defeat Maleficent. This actually was pretty FairForItsDay, but in many ways it still has aged quite well as the film reaches its seventieth year.

* ''VideoGame/Persona2 Innocent Sin'' is notable in that it has a canonically bisexual main character in the form of Tatsuya, who has amongst his potential love interests Jun, who is canonically gay - in a game that released in 1999, where even the idea of LGBT characters in protagonist roles in games (that don't [[BoysLove fulfill]] [[GirlsLove that niche]]) was practically unheard of. Even more incredibly baffling in that this never happens ever again in future games in the series at all, with not even a GayOption to speak of despite the future games higher focus on Dating Sim-like aspects.

* ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'' is best known for the ValuesDissonance, but some of its myths do manage to resonate through the ages:
** When Dionysus saw how his sleeping around was hurting his wife Ariadne, he promised to never do that again and turned her crown into a constellation as a symbol of his promise.
** Eros and Psyche. The gods actually help Psyche through her trials and reunite her with Eros, with Zeus making her a goddess so they could be together. No murders, no tragic twists, just a cute love story with a genuinely happy ending.

* ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' features a story arc where Superman battles against a [[TheKlan a thinly veiled pastiche of the Ku Klux Klan]]. The story famously tackles themes of racism, discrimination, and how people who exploit racial tensions are out to make money off gullible people who want to feel better about themselves by thinking they are better than someone else. This was in '''1946'''. As the storyline's themes became more relevant in the 2010s with rising racial tensions, its popularity led to [[ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan a modern reimagining]] that didn't need to change the political commentary.

* ''Series/PerfectStrangers'': "Sexual Harassment in Chicago" has a magazine editor named Olivia make a pass at Balki and then threaten his job when he refuses her advances. The episode makes it clear that what this woman is doing is wrong and that sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable. What makes this episode especially great is that it came out in 1987 at a time when the very idea of women sexually harassing men was generally not taken seriously by the public.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' contains some parts that remain more revelant:
** The bullying can fall into this and Dissonance as well - the characters do bully each other, and it's PlayedForLaughs, but many of the actual instances bullying rarely veers into TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, and when it does (such as Lucy throwing Schroeder's piano to the kite-eating tree), it's not shrugged off.
** Save for a few controversial instances, Franklin's skin tone is barely commented on.

** From a modern perspective Peppermint Patty's trouble with schoolwork reads a lot like someone suffering from undiagnosed ADD or ADHD. She is clearly intelligent, but her main problem is her inability to concentrate on things she has no interest in. In turn, her teacher(s) seem resigned to her just being a poor student and they never try to figure out if there is something that might be done to help Patty's school performance.

* Shylock's famous "if you prick us, do we not bleed?" speech from ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. That Jewish people are people, with all the same wishes and foibles as their neighbors, is something that still rings true.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': Arthur argues with Ector over Merlin's magic, with Ector dismissing it as wicked and dangerous despite knowing little about it (or perhaps even ''because'' he knows little about it). Arthur's line "Just because you can't understand something, it doesn't mean it's wrong" can be widely applied to other situations, and is just as relevant and meaningful nowadays as it was in 1963.

* ''Series/PerfectStrangers'': "Sexual Harassment in Chicago" has a magazine editor named Olivia make a pass at Balki and then threaten his job when he refuses her advances. The episode makes it clear that what this woman is doing is wrong and that sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable. What makes this episode especially great is that it came out in 1987 while a lot of modern fiction treats [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale harassment or abuse of men by women as acceptable or funny]].

* ''ComicBook/XMen''[='s=] storyline "ComicBook/GodLovesManKills" has its relevance in the power of televangelism that can be seen today with their power of persuasion and funding's on anti-homosexual groups. ''X-Men'' in general also tend to be looked upon favorably by various autism rights groups.

* The 1985 song "Russians" by Sting is about the massive tensions between Russia and the West, the fears of mutual nuclear destruction and how, in the end of the day, we are all human beings, regardless of location or ideology. With the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, in 2022, all of these themes returned more relevant than ever, something that the author of the song noted himself:

* ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'': Baby Blues is one of the few [[DomCom Dom coms]] ''period'' in the past 40 years that ''didn't'' depict parenthood as a self-inflicted hell destined for DysfunctionJunction. Wanda didn't have to [[ParentingTheHusband raise her husband]] in addition to the other children - Darryl was also depicted as being as involved emotionally with the childrens' needs.

** ''Manga/GoldenWind'': Despite the explicit DrugsAreBad [[AnAesop Aesop]] of the part, it stands out among many other works from TheNineties with similar messages for its lack of demonization of drug users. The entire blame of Italy's problem with addiction is put on Passione's Boss for enabling it, while the actual drug users are never represented in a stereotypically negative way, which resonates well with the later popularization of the movement to decriminalize drug use.

* ''VideoGame/Persona2 Innocent Sin'' is notable in that it has a canonically bisexual main character in the form of Tatsuya, who has amongst his potential love interests Jun, who is canonically gay - in a game that released in 1999, where even the idea of LGBT characters in protagonist roles in games (that don't [[BoysLove fulfill]] [[GirlsLove that niche]]) was practically unheard of. This also wouldn't be seen in future games in the series at all, with no GayOption to speak of despite the future games higher focus on Dating Sim-like aspects.

->''"[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney It]]'s still a cut above what people give it credit for and I think it would be more appreciated if it came out today. Because we need stories like this today. Fascist abusive Frollo, justice for the oppressed, the focus on how some men really do loathe the object of their desire, the wholesale demonization of ethnic groups. Maybe this movie wasn't really appreciated in its time because it didn't resonate as much in 1996, but it does resonate more in 2017. [...] And consider that hokey as it may be at points, like [[Creator/VictorHugo Hugo]]'s message about the importance of architecture in the 1830s, this might be what we need in our time."''

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* Music/TomLehrer's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI Pollution]]'' song, from the 1965 album ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas''.
* If you were to see these lyrics:
--> And yet most are proud\\

who have only loved in step with morality. [[https://lyricstranslate.com/en/das-lila-lied-lilac-song.html (translation credit)]]
::: You'd probably think that they were written sometime after the Stonewall Riots or in the era of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. In fact, they come from "Das Lila Lied", a German cabaret song written in the 1920s. The phrase "different from the others" (in German, "''Anders als die Andern''") comes from a 1919 movie which was among the first ever to deal with LGBTQ topics, and was inspired by the contemporary advances that were being made in sexuality research in pre-Nazi Germany.

* ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'': While a lot of the other Victoriana hasn't aged particularly well, the mocking of political appointees with no experience in their field and over-inflated egos (in this case, a First Lord of the Admiralty whose closest connection to the Navy is a [[IncrediblyLamePun partnership]] in a law firm), will probably never cease to be funny as long as back-room political dealing and nepotism are a thing.