>>129991034
Absolutely not. Mainstream 2000s was complete and utter trash. I remember it with horror.

>>129991053
Still a million times better compared to what we have to wad through the 2020s. Even the 2010s were already horrible.

>>129991067
The late '90s is when record companies really started shifting away from late teens or college-aged adults and almost exclusively targeting tween and teen girls as well as their gay friends. Try-hard guys were another target audience.

>Latin Pop
>Teen Pop
>Slut Pop
>Boy bands
>Pop "Punk"
>Ska Punk
>Nu-male Post-Punk
>le quirky Indie
>Post-Grunge
>Butt Rock
>Pop Rap
>Dirty South
>Gangsta Rap
>Crunk
>Dancepop
>Shitty Contemporary R&B
>Shitty Pop "Country"
>edgyboi Hot Topic-tier shit

>>129991153
that was mostly because the industry noticed there were a lot of Millenials who were just becoming old enough to be aware of music and decided to target them so everything became watered down and made to appeal to 11 year olds

>>129991053
As opposed to late 1990s?
Go fuck yourself unironically

>>129991053
There definitely were many gems in the 00s

when i was a kid i hated the 2000s and worshipped the 90s, i was born in 91, and i felt awful cause i was just a stupid baby when grunge was happening, i missed it, i missed nirvana.

And what did they give me in my childhood? limp bizket, POD, stained, and various forms of buttrock

it wasnt till the 2010s i came to retroactively appreciate the 2000s, the death of rock and rise of poptmism, whittling down music to just pop and pop rap made me realize the 2000s werent that bad

you know what, my chemical romance wasnt that bad ha ha.

i mean compared to mumble rap and and endless supply of white pop sluts at least rock existed in the 2000s

10s > 80s > 90s > 00s

>>129991604
Very true. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" may be the best song of 1910.

>>129991034
i forgot about those affliction style shirts.
wouldn't be me.

>>129991034
Mainstream 00s music is almost entirely ruined by loudness war mastering. Sometimes there are vinyl versions with higher DR but then you have all the defects of vinyl so it's not much better.

>>129992953
>00s
>loudness war
Lol
Compared to what's been going on in this decade 00s were maybe a loudness quarrel at most.

>>129994382
The shift towards catering to people who listen to music over tinny smartphone speakers opened the floodgates to a whole new dimension of upper mids madness

>>129991430
The 2000s started in the late 90s

>>129994397
the 2000s started 2000 years ago

the 00s only became cool retroactively because the 10s were worse. Compared to the 90s and the advent of metal, rap, drum and bass, house, and techno it's not remotely comparable.

1990's were the last decade that had a real thing going on. 2000-2026 is identical, only zoomers think "oh my god that is so 2010's" because it's all the same shit and has been for a quarter of a century

>>129995018
>xx only became cool retroactively
That's how that works, it's the 20 years nostalgia cycle. While the decade is happening it's just business as usual, there's an idea that things were generally better at some point in the past because things are seemingly so shit right now, the present sucks, the future is uncertain, but the past has a familiarity and certainty. A fad, trend or cultural product might happen in the present that (you) will enjoy, but generally people will look to the past as better. When looking at the past, what happened 10 years ago is outdated. What happened 20 years ago gets re-evaluated, enough of it is lost to the fog of memory, nostalgia goggles are put on and it gets rediscovered.

>>129991053
>I remember it with horror.
were you still in the closet at that time?

>>129995279
doesn't help that many things absolutely do get shittier and shittier so it isn't _just_ a traditional fad and nostalgia

>>129991053
Way better than 10s and 2020s. You're being a fag.

>>129996428
wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxstCcJlsc

if you're a metalcore fan, absolutely
if you're an npc, no

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Its should be. The 00s were the second best decade for music

>>129996488
rockslop

>>129996544
Basedpseud

>>129996488
these are musically 90's though

>>129997298
Everything is built off of what preceded it. Pop Punk, and Industrial Metal are both 80s genres, Nu metal is built off 80s funk metal, Alternative Metal is built off 80s college rock, and that Kid Cudi album is totally 00s

>>129995025
Came here to say this

>>129994397
That's funny, good one

>>129991034
no. 00s is when people stopped really caring about music in any serious sense at all.

70s-90s music meant something to its fans and listeners.

But in the 00s, especially with the advent of web2.0 short-attention-span dopamine fix dominating every aspect of life, music as we know it died.

Now, concerts are something you go to see and be seen at, very few people go to listen to music, and those that do suffer the idiocy of those who don't.

the staging is really cool and more elaborate, but it's no longer there in service of the music; in fact the music is subservient to the visual aspects of the show.

So yeah, no. nobody really loves or misses 00's music, certainly not the way they did the 90s

>>129997908
^one more thing, I've said it before and I'll say it again - Spotify is for soccer moms and casuals. It's something to have on the background while doing something else, not music to engage in/with.

Some people say Spotify is a cancer on music, but I disagree - that's based on the erroneous assumption that the people who use Spotify now would otherwise be more invested in music if it wasn't pre-curated disposable crap. But you know that simply isn't true.

>>129995025
idk man, death grips, SOPHIE, ARCA, hundred gecs, oneohtrix point never, vaporwave altogether, i might even add like kendrick lamar & frank ocean, although they were continuing on earlier sounds as well, this psych-influenced rap like kids see ghost, & trap stuff, i think all that stuff really is "sooo 2010s"

>>129997970
not to mention cloud rap, drain gang/sad boys, they were very much a sound of the 2010s. you might point to all the odd future guys too for a different pretty distinctive '10s temperament, as well as brockhampton who i see as having a similar art pop orientation to odd future

00s was alright

>>129991034
00s were a great time unless you were getting blown to bits in the middle east

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>>129995025
bro that is such a braindead statement the 2000s has very specific aesthetic,, wearing your invader zim hoodie to fye to buy the new korn album that you'll burn to your og xbox to use in tony hawk pro skater 4 is a vibe

>>130000803
Yeah but at least you had a good opportunity to kill people if you joined the military instead of just repairing roofs and delivering shipments

>>130000803
blowing kids to bits in the middle east to protect the profits oil companies, a time-honored American tradition that carries on to this day. Eisenhower would be proud of his legacy

>>129995025
If you actually know music you'd know this is false. The only debate is whether the 20s is its own thing and not just 10s+more

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

https://youtu.be/5LBnMRWeV-E
https://youtu.be/2kXMcjKhBgU
https://youtu.be/DV6j1NXJv9Y

The fact that zoomers don’t know shit doesn’t mean anything.