The Decade in Music

[Foxholes]

What will this decade be remembered for? I'm not talking "the best albums of the 2000s" or anything like that, I'm asking what is the defining musical movement of 2000-2010?

[wewascontenders]

Get back to me in 3 years and I'll tell you.

[Foxholes]

We've got 7.5 years of this decade over with, it can't hurt to guess.

[theguy77]

a faux-punkification of the mainstream (which is oxymoronic in and of itself), and quite possibly the first chapter in a steady decline of the current system of record labels, and an evolution if not an endangerment of music as a corporate business.

[wewascontenders]

the decline of record companies, i actually have no idea though

[Foxholes]

I'm gonna say MySpace, Pitchfork/etc, torrents, and other online sites/blogs making music more accessible then ever. That has more to do with distribution than actual music though, um synths seem really popular in any genre nowadays it seems.

[thespearkid]

The sophisticated third album from Forever the Sickest Kids, released on December 31st, 2009.

Seriously though, it's way to early to tell. Some of the best albums of the 70's were released in 79. Same with the 60's and 69 (<--- lolz, 69!!!!).

[Yes. And?]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/style/images/2007/11/07/jeffree.jpg

Face of a generation.

[Chris Fallon]

Parents must be proud.

[theguy77]

I'm gonna say MySpace, Pitchfork/etc, torrents, and other online sites/blogs making music more accessible then ever. That has more to do with distribution than actual music though, um synths seem really popular in any genre nowadays it seems.

yeah and this in turn is what fuels the movements i outlined, the decline of corporate music and the incline of independent music basically. but along with that comes the loss of integrity within independent music, something which, when you look at it, realy did start to come into effect at the beginning of this decade or a little earlier.

[Genuma]

Parents must be proud.
He killed them and sold them to Burger King for makeup money.

[shit stroll]

reinventing axl rose

[Chris Fallon]

Wouldn't be surprised...

[versus_god]

Bomb The Music Industry!

[Until The Bombs]

The decline in record sales / "struggle" of the record companies and a few mainstream artists. That's about it.

[kearn1tm]

I doubt we'll truly know until we can properly place it in the context of how it influences the next decade. We're still in it, so it's hard to be objective here.

[Hey Kevin]

folk punk
the Garden State and Juno soundtracks
some radical new fashion like "scene"
how music piracy saved music in the year 2009

[deeplyinept]

the abandonment of talent in pop music

although i guess that it was never uberly talented in the first place

[theguy77]

the abandonment of talent in pop music

although i guess that it was never uberly talented in the first place

haha are you kidding? i agree that it lacks a lot of the talent it had before this decade but there used to be plenty of it that requires a lot of talent, and it still does in the singing department... but not really anywhere else which sucks.

i think there was an even bigger loss of innovation in pop music since the 90s and previous. you just hear the same damn chord progressions allllll over the radio song after song after song now.

[theguy77]

folk punk
the Garden State and Juno soundtracks
some radical new fashion like "scene"
how music piracy saved music in the year 2009

weakerthans? or what else

[Hey Kevin]

the abandonment of talent in pop music

although i guess that it was never uberly talented in the first place

thats was stupid
The Police were extremely popular and very talented, all of those 80s one hit wonder bands had talent that just want appreciated, the people who write ashlee simpson songs are talented.

anyone can play shitty punk and be cool and underground but if you can write a great pop song and sell it to some record company for some money then you are my fucking hero.

ps
Kanye West is a popular artist and "stronger" was a huge hit, is Daft Punk untalented?

[Hey Kevin]

weakerthans? or what else
this bike, andrew jackson jihad, defiance ohio.
thats what i know folk punk as, and i think later it will get really popular

[deeplyinept]

haha are you kidding? i agree that it lacks a lot of the talent it had before this decade but there used to be plenty of it that requires a lot of talent, and it still does in the singing department... but not really anywhere else which sucks.

i think there was an even bigger loss of innovation in pop music since the 90s and previous. you just hear the same damn chord progressions allllll over the radio song after song after song now.
that was an ignorant statement by me now that i look at it
michael jackson was definately talented
he just doesn't have the same talent that i look for in music i suppose
but today's soulja boy shit is 6 steps down from that

ultimately your final statement was the point i was trying to make

[fadedmemories]

decline of major labels
piracy
rise of "myspace bands"
the way radiohead sold "in rainbows"
fueled by ramen