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Joanna Newsom made the harp cool again (as if it never was). Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, The National, Dirty Projectors, and Fleet Foxes became the indie darlings of the latter-half of the decade. Arcade Fire took the U2 mantle of endearingly-serious stadium rock with Funeral. They both revel in the country’s historic grandeur but are consumed mostly with personal anxieties and fearful of how their environment perpetuates these feelings.

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Along with Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois - his second and last entry in his 50-state album series - YHF symbolized the post-9/11 conflicted American epic. In indie rock and folk, Wilco carried over their ’90s greatness with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. For underground electronic music, Burial and The Knife were the leaders with denser-yet-more inclusive sounds. Daft Punk’s Discovery acts as the template for electro-pop anthems the whole decade from MGMT to Justice to Empire of the Sun to Kanye’s forays into pop. The Avalanches, J Dilla, Girl Talk, and 2 Many DJs take sampledelia to new heights, and the online culture surrounding mash-ups creates some gems along the way. The White Stripes symbolized everything pure and endearing about garage rock across two back-to-back classics.Įlectronic music moved away from the IDM of Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada and tended to embrace the pop & hip-hop-indebted styles of Daft Punk and DJ Shadow as their ’90s idols. They were building off The Strokes’ beloved debut Is This It - an album as polished and hook-laden as any pop record at the time but played off with a charming indifference that everyone had to emulate.

The last gasp of a rock zeitgeist happened in the mid-’00s with The Killers, Modest Mouse, and Franz Ferdinand all climbing the charts with deserving hits. At the 2000 VMAs, Napster co-founder Sean Parker was welcomed with a roaring applause the debate was over before the labels even realized what they were up against. Music piracy was impossible to stop, but the music industry’s response could not have been worse. with the notoriously perplexing classic Kid A, and by 2007, they were letting fans choose what to pay for In Rainbows - more of a statement on the devaluing of the album as physical sales fell off a cliff than a fan service. I’m still just talking about pop music though it’s hard not to considering the bull rush of pop classics from ’00-’06 that comprise much of this list.Īs we enter a lower level of ’00s music, the decade started with Radiohead scoring a #1 album in the U.S. Timbaland’s hard-hitting, retro production faded out once he went solo. Nobody has filled André 3000’s shoes Eminem can’t even fill his own shoes. Those three names are still arguably the three biggest music stars (Kanye for all the wrong reasons), so to look at pop music in the ’10s decade is to maybe see a lost opportunity to build off what happened in the 2000s. The decade started with Carson Daly at the center of all pop music drama with TRL and ended with the three biggest stars (Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Kanye West) wrapped up in a feud that still hasn’t been put to rest. The major label takeover was working, and music was undoubtedly better at this time.

A revolution in pop music was happening at the turn of the century, and looking back, all the forced boy-bands, rap-singing duets, and Nu metal acts have their charm - each star on that stage had cornered the market and earned their spotlight (yes, even Limp Bizkit).

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Nelly rapped “Country Grammar” with every bit of swagger he possessed *NSYNC performed “Bye Bye Bye” with giant TV screens for their heads Britney Spears brought her magnetic pop presence with “Oops…I Did It Again” Eminem parades a hundred Slim Shadys into Radio City Music Hall.

The result of that standard music awards show was legend after legend walking on that stage to either present or perform one of their greatest hits.

MTV recently replayed the 2000 Video Music Awards, and it turned out to be more than a mere nostalgia trip.