This article analyses the coverage of pop music in two magazines for older children and young adults during the transition from late socialism to post-socialism in Czechoslovakia or what has been called the “anti-decade” of 1985–1995. By revisiting Pionýr. a magazine for adolescents aged 12 to 15 and Mladý svět. a magazine for young adults aged 15 to 30. https://chefesquipmenters.shop/product-category/dough-dockers/