Gen Xers used to consider 1998-2004 the downfall of pop culture and the cancerous teen pop / nu metal / trl / mike scully simpsons era. People kept saying "1993-1997 was the true 90s" or "That 98-99 pokemon britney nsync crap wasn't true 90s, felt more like proto-2000s".
But nowadays, you have people in their late 20s on Buzzfeed/Twitter saying 1998-2004 was the golden age of pop culture or "the 90sest era ever", and consider anything before 1998 to be outdated/overrated/not interesting for them. A complete reversal in opinions.
wow almost like people hating on the next generation has been a thing since ancient times
Michael Taylor
for the love of god don't you idiot understand that people feel nostalgic? Just fuck off to someone who actually explains you this once and for all you brainlet
Can we just agree that the pop era of the late 90s/early 00s was abysmal?
Charles Robinson
what is it then?
Ian Kelly
millennial but i consider the early to mid 90s to be the true 90s.
Jose Edwards
>late 90s/early 00s was abysmal? honestly pop these days is not that much better
Dominic Gonzalez
Place is a madhouse; feels like being cold.
Mason Harris
pop today is significantly better than it was in the late 90s and early 00s
Samuel James
gen x was the generatin after the boomers i like to call it the kurt cobain generation
Josiah Baker
yeah but at least it was interesting with the rise of nu metal, boyband wars and the rise of indsutry plants like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera This year has been a snorefest thanks to the fact that Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish were the only two important popstars
Connor Reed
disagree maybe its cause I was young at the time but britney spears songs were way more catchy than anything ariana grande has made in the last 5 years
Robert Thompson
this wasn't this supposed to be the year of Ariana Grande? Where the fuck is she? Where the fuck is Post Malone? Why the hell no one cares about Bieber and Sheeran anymore? I'm tired of listening to the same 5 idiots complaining about why Billie Eilish is such a industry plant the only interesting thing in this year is the Taylor Swift backlash
Jeremiah Hall
I'm with the Gen-Xers. 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 faggot friends. In the past, MTV would air music videos for genuinely interesting alternative acts. Even the poppier/mainstream alt bands were worth listening to. Once "Hit Me Baby One More Time" became a thing, the rest was history.
Still, why were the late '90s and 2000s such a terrible period for music? Even now, the era's music is as depressing now as when it was new. There's something distinctly terrible. Literally nothing of value cropped up during that era.
>Latin Pop >Teen Pop >Boy bands >Pop "Punk" >Ska Punk >Nu-male Post-Punk >le quirky Indie >Post-Grunge >Nu-Metal >Pop Rap >Dirty South >Gangsta Rap >Crunk >Dancepop >Shitty Contemporary R&B >Shitty Pop "Country"
Nathan Kelly
i'll agree that the big pop hits from that era are catchier and arguably better than whatever is getting pumped out by ariana and billie eilish and stuff but the quality of stuff that's being produced by the tier just below them is so much better now than it was back then.
Noah White
>one more light >guitar music uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh?
