I don't get it!!, Why do y'all hate on 90's music so much??... Y'All act like the people in the 40's 50's and early 60's was not hating on the Motown era.I know people who grow up in the 50's(Blues era) hate Motown music.I thank it's a generation thing. Sadly the people who grow up in the New Jack Swing/ Hip-Hop Soul/Real-Hip-Hop are hating on the new generation (2000 era).

For me, the 90s is when mainstream music started going downhill... fast! I felt like a musical orphan most of the time, with only a handful of artists that I could really get into, most of whom were bigger in the 80s and the others were left on the outskirts. I've only come to appreciate the 90s more in hindsight, and I'd still place them well behind the 80s, 70s and even the 00s.

Moonbeam said:

I HOPE YOU DON'T THANK THE 00'S MUSIC BETTER THEN 90'S.

2000'S MUSIC IS THE WORST.

Moonbeam said:

Everything don't stay on top for ever!! The people that came out the 90's are not around ether.

I like '90s music!

Timmy84 said:

Well, lots of people on here be hating, so i had to ask..

i grew up in the 90s , and i love alot of it( but not the backstreet boys or some crzy summer hit like macarena or wes ) 90s where like a .... crossroad to me from where it was fun and where it went wrong. not a big hip hop fanatic but i like 90s hip hop alot better then todays. but i like the early 90s better than the late 90s though

though i grew up in the 90s i favor the 60s and 70s, then comes the 90s for me cause im more familiar with it , youth sentiment

Although the 90's produced some gems from the likes of Madonna,Mary, Janet, Prince, En Vogue, Toni Braxton to name a few (and the peak of the House music scene after the late 80's), I find the 90's to be the decade when artist lost their originality, and creativity. This is the decade that gangsta rap peaked (ending with two hip hop icons dead), and the music industry began to invest more in cookie cutter pop instead of talent and artistry.
I always refer to the 80"s as the last decade of experimentation, artistry, originality, and real stars.
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totaldiva said:

I will say that the late 90's was the down fall of music.

To be fair, i thank the early 80's (80-84) was the best part of the 80's, Not that big on 80's music.
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LSAGIRL said:

I try, but sometimes new stuff seems so gimmicky. A lot of 90s stuff I never liked in the first place still sounds overproduced to me.

LSAGIRL said:

I do think 2000s music is better, actually, partly because I have much wider access to good underground music than I had in the 90s. It seems everyone does, as well, as a lot of that music has infiltrated the mainstream bit by bit. The Strokes and Arcade Fire have had top 10 albums this decade!

Cinnie said:

I still thank it's a Generation thing, my grandmother hated MoTown music, my mother hated the New Jack Swing/ Hip Hop Soul music and I hate todays music.

Moonbeam said:

Maybe, that's do to the internet.

LSAGIRL said:

Are you typing with an accent?

ernestsewell said:

Nope!!

LSAGIRL said:

Well I gave you a chance. I just have no idea what you're saying in your post. I see the words, but I'm just not getting English from it.

In the meantime, visit here.

LSAGIRL said:

I thank you might've

Cinnie said:

I like 90's Music .. Personally don't think you can beat the 80's though

LSAGIRL said:

It's true. The internet expanded my scope well beyond what was being played on MTV and on the radio. That's part of why I hated the 90s at the time- there wasn't any outlet where I could viably hear or see stuff I liked. The early 90s were a lot better than the late 90s, though, I'll concede.

i like the 90s. and 00s for that matter.

If you do your research, you'll see that every decade has music that makes sense for it's time but doesn't necessarily age well into the following decades; music that resonates with people in it's time that also has the rare distinction of being equally appreciated later on; music that falls flat when it's initially released but finds an audience a few years down the road and is revisited and maybe even revered post-mortem; music to sell beer/soft drinks/cars/lifestyles.

Changes in priority concerning the way radio stations are programmed, contracts offered by record labels, advances in technology and how that applies to how music is recorded, blah blah blah.

There is as much bad music that was recorded/released between 1990-1999 as there is good music recorded/released between 1990-1999, just like any decade.

I'm partial to a lot of music that came out in the early and mid nineties, and some of the songs I'm fondest of are cheesy, awful, poorly sung, poorly written, overproduced and/or overplayed. But I still love them.

exenn said:

You have the best post so far!

The only things that came out of the 90s that were any good to me were....

Mariah Carey
Toni Braxton
TLC
Boys To Men

and some hot Chicago Club Music

1DirXtion said:

what about the fugees and lauryn hill?

LSAGIRL said:

Thanks. Just being honest.

I actually like alot of 90s music, well at least on the rap side of things. But as far as mainstream R&B and pop, there weren't alot of originality. It seems as though the majority were followers, and there weren't many trendsetters. On the rap side of things, sure you had Dre, Snoop, Pac, Wu, etc. But you also had slept on artists like AZ, Redman, Big L, etc. Back on the R&B side for every Jodeci, there was a Dru Hill, Silk, and whatever R&B group decided to come together to sing about sex. Britney Spears and NSYNC made me hate MTV, but then again all I took the high road and decided to turn it off...

I don't hate all 90s music, just 99% of the stuff that was played on the radio. The 90s had some great underground club and house music and also some great Miami bass type fast rap.

As for the radio, it was absolutely horrible and shit hop infested. By shit hop, I'm referring to all that dull slow to midtempo stuff with those weak casio sounding keyboards and some talking on top of it. And yes, Tupac Shitkur and Notorious PIG were shit hop also. On the R&B side, there was no funk, rarely anything danceable, and no decent slow jams since they had all turned into adult contemporary type slow songs. It was a horrible decade in radio and even though it's almost 2010, the 90s have never left because the styles haven't changed to this very day.