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Party like it’s 1989

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The ’80s are back. Yet again. For confimation, look no further than the new Culture Club in Times Square, where, like the decade that launched Madonna and sweated out “Pac-Man Fever,” subtlety is not a strong suit.

But who wants that? Instead, you can ogle a DeLorean, best-known as the car from “Back to the Future,” which is parked indoors, as well as cheesy murals from “Top Gun” and “Footloose.”

Want more? “Jenny 867-5309” is spray-painted above the bathrooms. Partygoers in legwarmers and vintage parachute pants dance to tunes by the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Bon Jovi as they sip cocktails such as the Ronald Reagan, Ghostbuster and Wall Street.

At Wednesday’s grand-opening bash, a Michael Jackson impersonator named MJX moonwalked, and the real Debbie Gibson performed at the neon-drenched trilevel time capsule.

The pop singer, inseparable from the ’80s, isn’t just onstage at the club — she’s behind the scenes as a business partner to Robert Watman, who’s opened and closed roughly 10 of these clubs nationwide, including an old space in TriBeCa that was open from 2000 to 2007. “It’s still fun to go back to the ’80s, 20 or more years later,” says Watman.

Gibson, who in 1987 became the youngest singer to write, produce and record a No. 1 song with her chart-topping “Foolish Beat,” certainly enjoys revisiting the past.

“The ’80s were good to me,” she tells The Post. Now 41, the Brooklyn-born, Long Island-raised singer counts a tour jacket from her heyday among the club’s artifacts.

Thanks to a $20 cover charge and lax velvet rope, Gibson thinks Culture Club is a throwback to when New York nightlife was more inclusive and less expensive. She also thinks it reflects a poppy period that people miss.

“People are longing for that again, and you can see it in the movies being remade and the way music is being influenced,” says Gibson.

Considering Culture Club patron Natalie Suarez was born in 1990, her ’80s enthusiasm is based solely on reflected nostalgia.

“All my favorite music is from the ’80s,” says Suarez, sipping the Madonna, a pink vodka-based drink. Her 23-year-old model friend Christina Cardona doesn’t remember the ’80s, either, but her mom, a model at the time, has filled her in.

“I love the ’80s,” Cardona says as the 1978 Village People song “YMCA” plays to a crowd that doesn’t seem to notice the deejay’s blurring of eras. Cardona continues, “It was free.”

Ingrid Nordstrom, a 31-year-old New Yorker originally from Minnesota, says fellow Minnesotan Prince is her favorite ’80s icon.

Wearing a Simon Le Bon-inspired fedora, Nordstrom, an actress, cites “the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy” and the Twins’ victory at the 1987 World Series among her fondest memories from the ’80s.

“When I go back to thinking about the ’90s, it seemed a bit more serious and political maybe, where the ’80s were over the top,” adds Watman. “It was really the last age of innocence.”