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Uh, no, the 90s sucked when it was going on, it's "cool" now that it is over and we conveniently forget boy bands, Vanilla Ice, et al.

The i-pod generation? The Hanna Montana years? The era Satan programmed MTV? Bleh.

HulkHands: Uh, no, the 90s sucked when it was going on, it's "cool" now that it is over and we conveniently forget boy bands, Vanilla Ice, et al.

All decades are full of that stuff. "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies was the #1 song of 1969, after all. And all hair metal sucked in the 1980s but we still remember '80s music for it.

The question is how do you define 2000s-era music, not whether it was good or not.

And as I don't know much popular hit music, I have no idea.

I wouldn't know because I don't listen to any of it.

I fear it will go down in history as the "emo" decade for popular music. Oh well. There's plenty of good stuff in all those decades and this one. You just have to look for it, 'cause it ain't on the radio (often).

I hereby christen the 00's as the era of Soulja Boy.

I'm a "child of the '80s" and I've long thought that almost all popular music from that time completely sucks ass. The growing popularity of alternative music in the '90s was a breath of fresh air. Of course now for many years what's more correctly called "modern rock" is a steaming pile of shiat. Meh.

I think the final paragraph sums it up best:

It's entirely possible we may not be able to categorize our current decade of musicoontil we're already well into the year 2010 and beyond. Then maybe we can look back on the last 10 years and sum it up into one category that best describes the entire decade. To a lot of music lovers, it may seem as though music went downhill after the 80s and 90s, but then again, most people have a tendency to favor the generation of music that they grew up listening to.

Sadly, American Idol has probably had as much influence on this decade's music as anything else, if not more. Therefor the 00's will be the decade of Clay Aiken et al.

The 2000's: The Long Dark Era of Nickelback

Adjective Bird Whiskey: I hereby christen the 00's as the era of Soulja Boy.

You Tell 'em.

the decade that is Never Gonna Give Up Chocolate Rain?

the decade where we did it for money, and money only. then we fought over the money, and who would get more money, and we sang songs about money and how great it is to have money, even if we didn't really have money and everything was being rented.

The Rick Astley resurgance.

That's totally true. When you're a teenager, you identify with music. Once you hit adulthood, it just becomes 'stuff'.

NargReborn: Sadly, American Idol has probably had as much influence on this decade's music as anything else, if not more.

Which is interesting since AI tends to showcase songs from the 70's and 80's quite a bit.

it very well may be remembered as the "hip hop" era because of the genre's HUGE influence on the charts over the last decade. Sure, you can say emo, but look at the charts over the last eight years and you'll see that it's dominated by "hip hop" artists.

I put "hip hop" in quotes because the stuff everyone is familiar with sucks huge donkey sack.

"emo fag shiat"

samperkinsdog: the decade where we did it for money, and money only. then we fought over the money, and who would get more money, and we sang songs about money and how great it is to have money, even if we didn't really have money and everything was being rented.

The 80s?

Persnickety:

The 2000's: The Long Dark Era of Nickelback

Thread over, we have a winner.

What defines this decade is this: For the first time in human history, it is possible for anyone anywhere in the world to instantly hear practically anything ever recorded. It's a revolution that most don't yet appreciate. With that in mind, it's not surprising that nothing really new is happening in music: we're all too busy catching up with stuff produced in the last 50 years. Look at any music lover's playlist: the titles span generations.

eh, grunge was really only 92 - 94. Most of the grunge bands either broke up [insert Nirvana joke] by 1996. Anything after 1997 was pure crap though.


the 00s are farking pathetic though.

The Decade of Stagnation. Rap, Metal, Pop; none have experienced any substantial creative growth for years now. Musical artists are just imitating what's been proven successful before.

Shiatty?

It's all cyclical. We're back in the poppy 50's but with cuss words and sex instead of 'holding hands down by the dock' or whatever.

70's was also new wave and punk, the 80's was also early rap, 90's was also gangster rap and techno.

2000marions

as far as "hip hop" is concerned, a guy I know made a great analogy to the state of hip hop the last several years: hip hop right now is like hair metal from the 80's

the genre is taking a dump on itself. it sucks.

Adjective Bird Whiskey: I hereby christen the 00's as the era of Soulja Boy.

And here I have to post my obligatory Ice-T bashing of Soulja Boy:

"fark Soulja Boy! Eat a dick! This nubian single handedly killed Hip Hop. That shiat is such garbage man. We came all the way from Rakim, we came all the way from Das EFX, we came all the way from motherfarkers flowing like Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube, and you come with that Superman shiat? That shiat is garbage. Hurricane (Chris) take them farking beads out of your hair nubian! Man up. You nubians is making me feel real farking mad about this shiat."

The kids are alright. There has always been the pop charts and the people really making music. The 70s were no more the age of classic rock than they were disco, ABBA, and John Denver. Today, John Denver would probably be wearing eyeliner and bracelets.

There is plenty of good music out now, even on the radio.

Radiohead, Outkast, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Blackstar (Mos Def & Talib Kweli), the Black Keys, Jay-Z, Kanye West (people will disagree but he really is an amazing producer), Fiona Apple, TV on the Radio, The Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Lupe Fiasco, Sonic Youth has put out some decent stuff (Rather Ripped ftw), Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, the Roots' last couple albums have been fire, DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, DJ Shadow, Feist, The Shins, Maria Rita (Brazil), Amadou and Miriam (Senegal), Charlotte Gainsbourgh (France), Air (France), etc.

The list goes on, people are just into complaining and don't spend the time to look for good music. Plus you can get lots of old stuff now that everything is online - I even bought Serge Gainsbourgh "Melodie Nelson" in the farking local cd store the other day for crying out loud. We have the best choices of music in the history of man and all anybody can do is biatch. Makes me sick.

The Era Of Me Sitting On My Couch Eating Cheese Doodles Like A Wolverine

ivan: What defines this decade is this: For the first time in human history, it is possible for anyone anywhere in the world to instantly hear practically anything ever recorded. It's a revolution that most don't yet appreciate. With that in mind, it's not surprising that nothing really new is happening in music: we're all too busy catching up with stuff produced in the last 50 years. Look at any music lover's playlist: the titles span generations.

this is probably the only shining light of the 00s. What's popular is downright farking terrible, but it seems like not only are obscure, older acts finally getting their due, plenty of current obscure acts are getting more exposure than they would've just a few short years ago.


And no, this isn't some hipster "I hate everything mainstream" bullshiat. If you are at all happy with the state of mainstream music, you are part of the problem and I hope you go deaf from rockin' out to Nickleback. Yes, shiat Music has always been popular, but at least there wear your Beatles, Led Zeppelins, black sabbaths, Pink floyds, etc. to counter it.

The decade where boy bands roamed the earth.

ivan: What defines this decade is this: For the first time in human history, it is possible for anyone anywhere in the world to instantly hear practically anything ever recorded. It's a revolution that most don't yet appreciate. With that in mind, it's not surprising that nothing really new is happening in music: we're all too busy catching up with stuff produced in the last 50 years. Look at any music lover's playlist: the titles span generations.

Dude. WIN!!!!

H_is_for_Heretic: The kids are alright. There has always been the pop charts and the people really making music. The 70s were no more the age of classic rock than they were disco, ABBA, and John Denver. Today, John Denver would probably be wearing eyeliner and bracelets.

I don't think he really has the figure for it anymore.

Chachi Dragonheart: Garbage In/Garbage Out

MMmmmm.......Garbage

SnakeLee: There is plenty of good music out now, even on the radio.

Radiohead, Outkast, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Blackstar (Mos Def & Talib Kweli), the Black Keys, Jay-Z, Kanye West (people will disagree but he really is an amazing producer), Fiona Apple, TV on the Radio, The Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Lupe Fiasco, Sonic Youth has put out some decent stuff (Rather Ripped ftw), Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, the Roots' last couple albums have been fire, DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, DJ Shadow, Feist, The Shins, Maria Rita (Brazil), Amadou and Miriam (Senegal), Charlotte Gainsbourgh (France), Air (France), etc.

The list goes on, people are just into complaining and don't spend the time to look for good music. Plus you can get lots of old stuff now that everything is online - I even bought Serge Gainsbourgh "Melodie Nelson" in the farking local cd store the other day for crying out loud. We have the best choices of music in the history of man and all anybody can do is biatch. Makes me sick.

I agree, but I dont understand the "word local cd store" is this a euphemism for iTunes or some other shareing format.
There is stuff out there that anyone may like you just need to look and stop telling folks to get off your 70's 80's 90's lawns.

mcongraff: Musical artists are just imitating what's been proven successful before.

sorry, this too. Yes, you can't escape your influences. This is true of every musical act ever, but for fark's sakes, can we please stop with "homages" to classic rock bands? They were great because they took a basic formula and took it a step beyond. Now it's "LOL, My Chemical Romance is doing a Queen homage! Remember Queen?!"


/feels old as fark at 25.

I was just commenting to my workmate that if Satan indeed exists and is alive upon this earth, Disney would be his headquarters.

How about, "The era of WTF?"

For the longest time there, my radio area had *no* rock and roll stations. For about 5 years. It was all hip-hop, rap, and country.

The backlash is in full swing. There's now at least 6 playing various genres of classic rock and probably another 6 playing rock if you widen the variety to soft and rock/pop.

I can turn the radio on again.

SnakeLee: There is plenty of good music out now, even on the radio.

The list goes on, people are just into complaining and don't spend the time to look for good music. Plus you can get lots of old stuff now that everything is online - I even bought Serge Gainsbourgh "Melodie Nelson" in the farking local cd store the other day for crying out loud. We have the best choices of music in the history of man and all anybody can do is biatch. Makes me sick.

I pretty much agree, but I don't turn on the radio. My favorite music of all time was born in the 90's and came into it's own in the 00's.

I'll be happy if it goes down as the decade of Emo since that would mean that we only have another 18 months to suffer.

Kayne West? When I heard that Golddigger song I was all WTF?

All he did is loop "I Got a Woman" and add some "rhyming". He counts on the stupidity and ignorance of the average casual music consumer not to recognize a warhorse of R & B is looped for the hook (with some worm-synth bass slapped on top... sheer genius!).

Fishbulb30w: Chachi Dragonheart: Garbage In/Garbage Out

MMmmmm.......Garbage

Now we're talking

ivan: What defines this decade is this: For the first time in human history, it is possible for anyone anywhere in the world to instantly hear practically anything ever recorded. It's a revolution that most don't yet appreciate. With that in mind, it's not surprising that nothing really new is happening in music: we're all too busy catching up with stuff produced in the last 50 years. Look at any music lover's playlist: the titles span generations.

This, this, a thousand times this.

The Decade File Sharers Ruined Rock?
The corporations are going to be the ones writing the history books.

Archie Godwin: Nickleback and Coldplay says it all.

Don't forget "Five for Fighting." Whiny, emo douche.