Their mother is reminiscing and holding onto her own high school years, the 1980s, while her kids are living in the present. She refuses to embrace the changes and the present, preferring to live in ‘1985’. This also highlights the generational gap between parents and children.

Debbie wishes to return to the days of her youth where she could be more rebellious and careless. Nowadays, she has a family and is trapped in the suburban mom life. It’s likely that her sense of nostalgia has exaggerated her actual youth and she is imagining it to be better than it really was.

This is a reference to Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” video.

Tawny Kitaen dancing on the cars in that video became a 1980s sex symbol, and here serves as reference to bygone youth.

“Lear drop” refers to a line of private jets by Bombardier.

A jet dropping would mean a change in altitude causing her ears to pop, as mentioned right before.

With the bass tuned all the way up (or dropped low, #orsomething), speakers can send sound waves strong enough to be felt, reminiscent of the way earthquakes feel.

People can feel the DJ’s sound. But does it work the way around? Can people hear an earthquake? The actual shaking people feel in an earthquake is largely below the human hearing range. But here is a project that allows you to hear earthquakes and experience them in a different way.

TMZ is a popular celebrity gossip and news site.

This guy she is talking to is not “low key” but rather quite loud and possibly only interested in Amy for her fame. He may claim he’s just a shy man, but he’s showing off or just talking to Amy because she’s made it big.

This line has a double meaning. While the obvious option is that it is a reference to money, it could be referring to Youtube views, since Karmin’s breakout video, their cover of Look At Me Now, now has over 85 million views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCokQt--l4

With their popularity growing, more of their videos are bound to reach this landmark.

Play on words, since Karmin blew up with their cover of Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCokQt--l4