Hi everybody.

I was having that conversation with a friend the other day and he told me: "it's like nothing major happened in music in the 2000's" and i told him "well, no new musical movement emerged but it was a great decade when it came to mixing previous genres and influences from the whole second half of the 20th century but, yeah, nothing really new happened".

Everey decade had seen major new musical genres and experiments since the birth of jazz and later rock'n'roll, both creating new trends every 5 or 10 years. To make a long story short, the 90's saw the explosion of electronic music (drum&bass, trip-hop, breakbeat, etc...). The 80's saw the birth of hip-hop and pop & funk evolved into major new genres such as synth-pop, post-punk, new wave and electrofunk. The 70's saw the birth of funk and later disco, as well as all the more or less experimental progressive and psychedelic rock and jazz fusion and ambiant music. The 60's birthed soul music and british pop/rock, the 50's saw the birth of rock&roll and free-jazz, etc.

But what about the 2000's? For me, a major genre was electroclash and all its spinoffs (from nu disco to the recent new wave revival) but it remained quite an underground movement and besides it was mostly based on rehashing previously existing genres such as synthpop, electrofunk, punk, etc.

Besides electroclash artists, i don't think many new bands really stuck me as being really innovative the way, for exemple, Björk, Massive Attack, Tricky or Aphex Twin had fascinated me in the 90's. There were great new bands i loved, from the miraculous Goldfrapp to the more recent Little Dragon, but they were more paying homage to previous eras than creating new trends.

What do you think of this musical decade? Which artists seem really important/innovative to you and why? Please share your views and please say if you're from the USA or Europe or another continent (because, for exemple, while hip-hop became a major trend in the USA in the 80's, it didn't really reach Europe before the early 90's so many people here consider it as a musical movement that emerged in the 90's).

And what do you imagine might happen in the next decade? How are musicians going to break new grounds when the technology seems to have reached its peak (previous musical evolution had a lot to do with technology: electric guitars, then keyboards, then drum machines and samplers, then computers...)?

Thanks for sharing.
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Indie music - Hope

I could give crawling a fuck about the rest.

Booty shaking Beyonce
Stiff ass Rihanna
Autotune
Death of autotune
Rebirth of autotune
American Idol
Fakeness
Wackness

IMO, the only good artists that came out in that decade was Ludacris, Lupe, and Kanye, and that's really about it. The rest of the music I listened to was from the early-mid 90s, 80s, and 70s music. The 00s was rip-off of the 80s.

We're still in the 2000's, got 89+ more years left.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

in agreement

LittleBLUECorvette said:

2000's the decade, NOT whole century.

BklynBabe said:

TonyVanDam said:

There's no decade of the 2000's that would be the 00's. Of course I knew what you meant though, just being stubborn.

Fluffy pop crap with the continuation of gangsta and materialistic rap music with no talent whoatsoever coming out except Lady Gaga, the diamond in the rough. Seriously, take Gaga out, the decade was dead musically.

The 2000s was the decade when it became crystal clear that pop music is dead,artistically.

Simon Cowell.

bassmungus said:

Huh? This guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/w...mon_Cowell
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In the mid to late 1990s, I waited for the 2000s to get here hoping that a style change would occur like every other decade. I didn't think any decade could be worse than the 1990s but the 2000s is definately worse.

Huggiebear said:

I only know her hits so i might miss gems that are on her albums, but from the few songs i've heard i fail to see anything innovative, challenging or interesting in her music: i just hear generic dance music that i couldn't differenciate from any other current top-10 dance artist: more a well done product than anything close to a woek of art.

So... could you please extrapolate on why you think she's so distinctive from her contemporaries??? Maybe i missed something...
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Harlepolis said:

Harlepolis said:

"Hope" is a band's name or you mean you hope that Indie Music was still innovative?