Genre of the Decade?

[straight_edge76]

What does everybody think is the genre of music that really defined the last decade? The 70's had Disco, The 80's had the Hair bands and Punk, 90's had the Grunge and the hip-hop revolution (when Hip-hop became much more mainstream) but what did the 2000's have? When we look back 20-30 years from now what do you think is the music that came from the 2000's will be remembered?

I honestly think the emo/scene music (My Chemical Roamnce, Aiden etc.) I think is what really defined the decade. Sure there were bands like the Cure before them but the real Emo boom I think came in 2004ish when bands like My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco and the like really hit mainstream, before they were sort of an indie thing. I mean before them I know there were the emo/scene kids but what I noticed was throughout the decade being "emo" or "scene" was more accepted as a fad then it was as being an outcast.

Another I believe was the Rap/Rock meshing of bands like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and more recently Hollywood Undead. Now, say what you will about said bands (I personally am a fan of all three) but they did sort of have an impact on the music industry. I mean there were artists like Cypress Hill that dabbled in rap/rock before but it was always I think thought of as more of a sub-genre then one of its own. Linkin Park In my opinion is one of the most infulential bands on the 2000s. Unlike Limp Bizkit, they have had quite a bit of success in the industry and have been able to branch out into other projects (Mike Shinoda's rap group for example) with a bit of success and have even worked with Jay-Z one if, if not the biggest star in the music industry.

So what do you all think?

 

[Wordlife]

personally I think Metal.... its being involved with bands along the lines of Dream Theater, KoRn, Slipknot, Opeth, Mastodon, Between the Buried and Me, etc.

They have been on the rise, metal is becoming the new thing, advanced from the 80's

 

[LadyHotrod]

2000's = shit.


Garbage like Beyonce and the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus......fuck this shit, the 60's, 70's and 80's had the best fucking music ever. The 90's had some good points but the early 90's phase of really gay dance music and then the mid to late 90's faggotry of horrible nu-metal bands and the entrance of girl and boy bands sucked dick.

 

[straight_edge76]

No offense LadyHotrod but shit like your post is what annoys me about some people when it comes to music. Lame ass generalizations about entire subjects based on a few cases. What I got from your post is every artist from the 2000's is like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers? (who mind you have only been around for a little over 2 years and are aimed at younger listeners) Seriously I highly doubt that EVERYTHING from the decade could be classified as "garbage"

 

[LadyHotrod]

No offense LadyHotrod but shit like your post is what annoys me about some people when it comes to music. Lame ass generalizations about entire subjects based on a few cases. What I got from your post is every artist from the 2000's is like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers? (who mind you have only been around for a little over 2 years and are aimed at younger listeners) Seriously I highly doubt that EVERYTHING from the decade could be classified as "garbage"

No offense but people like yourself who can't accept other people's opinions annoy me, not to mention you putting words in my mouth.

The 00's don't have any bands that spring to my mind that are even worth remembering except for Eminem, really, because he's about the only good thing that came out of it. The 00's have offered nothing but heaps and heaps of gay shit. Go back to the decades that I mentioned and you can find bands that EASILY stick out. None of the newer bands influenced anything. Even the artists/bands of today have influences from the decades I mentioned and a lot of those bands from those decades were pioneers of music genres.
Good music has since disappeared (unless you actually go out and look for it as opposed to listening to mainstream shit). You can find some gold at the end of the rainbow but, for the most part, the radio is a pile of shit (in other words, before you put more words in my mouth, not ALL 00's bands suck but a lot of them do, especially the shit played on the radio).

I don't judge people who like it because everyone has their own taste. I used to be a radio junkie myself and only knew mainstream bands. There are FAR better bands out there than what is on the radio but people don't feel like searching and it's much more convenient to like whatever they play on tv and on the radio.


I'm not trying to be an elitist asshole but you aren't talking to someone who just woke up yesterday and started listening to music. I know a shitload of bands, lots you have heard of and lots you haven't, and mainstream music has gone downhill quite a bit. I also gave the low points of the 90's so it's not as if I am just attacking the 00's. Maybe you are just too young to remember any of it, considering you are 19 at this point.


Not sure if Gates still posts here but I know he would fully agree with me and understands what I am saying. If you like it, bravo, I don't give a shit, but my OPINION is that it sucks so take it or leave it but fuck off with OMG I H8 WHEN PEOPLE GENERALIZE MUSIC AND THINK IT'S ALL JONAS BROTHERS AND MILEY CYRUS. I never said all of it was, I was simply pointing out the shittiest of the shit and that the 00's didn't produce many bands that appeal to me.


To sum it up for you in simple terms, THIS IS ALL MY OPINION, IT IS NOT A FACT, AND I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK WHO LISTENS OR LIKES THIS MUSIC. You made a thread asking for opinions and I gave mine. The end.


One last thing, you are asking about the 00's yet you talk about rap/rock bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit (which are part of nu-metal, which I just mentioned in my last post about the 90's). They all came out in the 90's and did next to nothing in the 00's.

 

[straight_edge76]

No, I did not say that I do not accept your opinion. I just do not agree with it. Sure I am a bit younger then you? So fucking what? You basically did nothing imo then just simple downgrade the entire 00's musical contributions. bands from this decade have influenced other bands from this decade. I am by no means saying that the music from this decade is better then past decades, if anything as awhole it is worse but you seem to be a person who is ignorantly nostalgic in a sense that what you grew up listening to/still listen to is sooo much better then the type of music being released today but let's face it bands from the 80s (Kiss, Guns R Roses etc.) had a profound impact on music at the time much similar to how bands like Green Day have impacted music now.

 

[Moonlight Drive]

Mainstream radio fails.

Viva la Triple J!

 

[LadyHotrod]

No, I did not say that I do not accept your opinion. I just do not agree with it. Sure I am a bit younger then you? So fucking what? You basically did nothing imo then just simple downgrade the entire 00's musical contributions. bands from this decade have influenced other bands from this decade. I am by no means saying that the music from this decade is better then past decades, if anything as awhole it is worse but you seem to be a person who is ignorantly nostalgic in a sense that what you grew up listening to/still listen to is sooo much better then the type of music being released today but let's face it bands from the 80s (Kiss, Guns R Roses etc.) had a profound impact on music at the time much similar to how bands like Green Day have impacted music now.

LMAO, relax.

I listen to all kinds of music. I'm not a closed minded fuck who only believes that older music is better. It's just MY OPINION (for the 15th time) that the 00's have really offered nothing that amazing in music besides perhaps Eminem, as I stated. I also never said that all 00's was shit, I was making a general statement but didn't mean to include each and every band/artist. It was more of an overall summary.

In the end, I get the impression that you don't exactly know much about music because you did name bands that had their prime in the 90's and then practically died in the 00's. The fact that you mentioned nu-metal bands as influencing rap/rock while TOTALLY disregarding the Aerosmith/Run-DMC union is lulz. Bands like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit didn't influence shit. All they did was bring forth a form of music that someone already thought of 20 years before. I actually enjoy early LB and LP, before you think I am trying to diss them.


Do you honestly think in 20-30 years people are going to give a fuck/remember about bands like MCR? I'll bet you all my belongings that it wont happen.

The Cure are NOT an emo band. They are gothic rock/new wave/post punk. Don't ever call one of the best bands on earth emo.

 

[noumenon]

Stop fucking classifying stuff into these ridiculous fucking sub genres. "Gothic rock/new wave/post punk" What the fuck is that supposed to mean? lol
Just listen to the fucking music and enjoy it, stop trying to lump everything into these ridiculous sub-categories. Fine, you want to say rock, metal, rap, country...whatever. Don't try to break everything down into these intricate little categories it just comes off sounding ridiculous and pretentious.

If anything I'd say rap defined this decade. It's spilled over into every other form of music, listened to by pretty much every race and influenced everything from fashion to movies. So yeah, I'd say rap.

 

[LadyHotrod]

Stop fucking classifying stuff into these ridiculous fucking sub genres. "Gothic rock/new wave/post punk" What the fuck is that supposed to mean? lol
Just listen to the fucking music and enjoy it, stop trying to lump everything into these ridiculous sub-categories. Fine, you want to say rock, metal, rap, country...whatever. Don't try to break everything down into these intricate little categories it just comes off sounding ridiculous and pretentious.

If anything I'd say rap defined this decade. It's spilled over into every other form of music, listened to by pretty much every race and influenced everything from fashion to movies. So yeah, I'd say rap.

There are sub-genres for a reason. Some sub-genres are stupid and don't sound any different from other genres but I wouldn't doubt he assumes that The Cure are emo because of how they look. The reason The Cure are labelled under so many genres are because their music changed over time and they fit under those categories.

I listen to music for the music....what else do people listen to music for? It's just a fact that certain bands fall under certain categories and even comparing a band like The Cure to poop like MCR is silly indeed.

 

[straight_edge76]

LMAO, relax.

I listen to all kinds of music. I'm not a closed minded fuck who only believes that older music is better. It's just MY OPINION (for the 15th time) that the 00's have really offered nothing that amazing in music besides perhaps Eminem, as I stated. I also never said that all 00's was shit, I was making a general statement but didn't mean to include each and every band/artist. It was more of an overall summary.

In the end, I get the impression that you don't exactly know much about music because you did name bands that had their prime in the 90's and then practically died in the 00's. The fact that you mentioned nu-metal bands as influencing rap/rock while TOTALLY disregarding the Aerosmith/Run-DMC union is lulz. Bands like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit didn't influence shit. All they did was bring forth a form of music that someone already thought of 20 years before. I actually enjoy early LB and LP, before you think I am trying to diss them.


Do you honestly think in 20-30 years people are going to give a fuck/remember about bands like MCR? I'll bet you all my belongings that it wont happen.

The Cure are NOT an emo band. They are gothic rock/new wave/post punk. Don't ever call one of the best bands on earth emo.

No, what I stated was that bands like MCR and the whole mid 00's emo crazy is one of the bigger music trends of the decade.

And what I said about LP and LB was meaning that as more of a genre then Aerosmith/Run DMC. I mean yes there collaboration was epic and groundbreaking but after the inital collaboration not much. It wasn't like the two artists combined to make a super rap/rock group or anything. In between then and the time that bands like Linkin Park started to hit the mainstream the rap/rock mashing was never really done as an entire sound. I am sure many bands would do a rap/rock sounding song here and there but Linkin Park basically created there whole sound off of that meshing. Linkin Park/Limp Bizkit and the like I am sure did influence and will continue to influence bands from now on into the future, of course a band that has only been around a few years and is one of the biggest bands of the decade is going to spark an interest and influence the bands of said time period.

 

[biggs]

In all honesty, I don't think that there's really any style of music that defined the '00s. Due to several factors, including the rise of digital music distribution, music as a whole has become more of a piecemeal business where people will pick and choose what they like without any one thing being huge. Thanks to things like iTunes and internet radio sites like Pandora, traditional methods of getting your song huge, like radio or music videos, just don't apply the same way like they used to. It's pretty telling that the largest selling new album of the decade was ‘NSync’s No Strings Attached, which came out in 2000. (A Beatles compilation album was the #1 seller, but only by about a 100,000 units.) The fact that only two albums this past decade had enough sales to be considered "diamond" records shows how fractured and compartmentalized the music industry has really become.
Because of the increased ability of people to really isolate themselves in whatever niche musical genre they like, it's really quite difficult to say what genre defined this past decade, because it'll be different for each person based on how they shaped their entertainment sphere, so to speak. For example, to me, alternative rock was the defining sound, merely because that's all I really chose to expose myself to. Others will say rap, and others pop, if only because it's easier and easier to now base your entertainment on what you personally like and want rather than what the "tastemakers" say.

 

[Kizza]

Are we saying influenced or like a real upstart genre? Cos stuff like Post-Hardcore has really become popular in a way over the last couple of years, but of course this decade is defined by the shit of this decade. You Taylor Swifts, your Beyonces, all your grammy winners basically.

It's also almost impossible to say, because at the time in 70's, Led Zeppelin would have hardly been considered as a band that would be remembered in 30 years time. I could say A Day To Remember, but who am I to know that they will be a big band in 30 years time?

 

[straight_edge76]

If anything I'd say rap defined this decade. It's spilled over into every other form of music, listened to by pretty much every race and influenced everything from fashion to movies. So yeah, I'd say rap.

Honestly, I think he is right, I mean The Grammy's; the music industry's biggest award show and still thought of as the mega award for a musician, has been headlined by a rap preformance how many times this decade?

 

[Moonlight Drive]

The Grammys are a complete joke.

If we're talking influential, I'd say Jack White, since critics have such a hard-on for him.