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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 9:27:45 GMT 10
There have been many conversations about 1992, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2016, and 2018 all having shifts. However, I have a feeling that there was a shift that took place in the year 2000 that seems to be overlooked.
Cultural shifts: This was the absolute beginning of the reality TV boom. Survivor premieres, and Big Brother finally premieres in the US. (https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/big-brother-20-best-reality-show) There is no Y2K panic anymore. (https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/y2k-the-new-years-disaster-that-never-happened/)
Political shifts: Bush's victory angered and shocked many people. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3583882/Bushs-victory-is-the-voice-of-an-angry-America.html) This was the first year where Republicans were red and Democrats were blue. (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/guess-republicans-red-democrats-blue/story?id=43272920) March 2000 was the absolute start of the Dot Com Bubble burst when the value of NASDAQ's stocks dropped from $6.71 trillion to $6.02 trillion throughout mid and late March. (http://time.com/3741681/2000-dotcom-stock-bust/)
Technological shifts: Super Bowl 34 was not only the first Super Bowl to use high definition broadcasting, but also the first major sports event to do so. (http://www.espn.com/abcsports/pressreleases/s/2002/0925/1436510.html) The PS2 comes out. It was the first video game console that allowed people to use DVDs. (https://www.history.com/topics/history-of-video-games)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 9:54:27 GMT 10
2000 was also the year that "The Marshall Mathers LP" by Eminem came out. A lot of people underestimate the impact that album had and the fact that it reached a lot of people who weren't traditionally rap fans. I would go as far as to say if it wasn't for that album, the 2000s wouldn't have been as hip-hop focused as they were.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Jul 27, 2018 10:11:59 GMT 10
I would go as far as to say if it wasn't for that album, the 2000s wouldn't have been as hip-hop focused as they were. I actually tend to agree. When I was in primary school, the majority of kids in my year group only liked rock and Top-40 pop music, but there were a fair few who liked Eminem, even though they weren't fans of Hip-Hop. Eminem was largely responsible for breaking down the residual barriers which remained between the Hip-Hop community and other forms of music.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 4:03:46 GMT 10
It's the first year the Internet became completely ubiquitous (you could probably still avoid it early 1999). Everyone had an email address!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 5:35:32 GMT 10
2000 was also the year that "The Marshall Mathers LP" by Eminem came out. A lot of people underestimate the impact that album had and the fact that it reached a lot of people who weren't traditionally rap fans. I would go as far as to say if it wasn't for that album, the 2000s wouldn't have been as hip-hop focused as they were. I'm not sure if I'm right about this, but I think that the bubblegum pop trend started to decline in late 2000.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 3:58:40 GMT 10
2000 was also the year that "The Marshall Mathers LP" by Eminem came out. A lot of people underestimate the impact that album had and the fact that it reached a lot of people who weren't traditionally rap fans. I would go as far as to say if it wasn't for that album, the 2000s wouldn't have been as hip-hop focused as they were. I'm not sure if I'm right about this, but I think that the bubblegum pop trend started to decline in late 2000. I think that's when it peaked. 2001 was the year that really saw the decline. N'Sync's "No Strings Attached" was very bubblegum. "Celebrity" on the other hand had a lot more urban influence.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 4:13:48 GMT 10
I'm not sure if I'm right about this, but I think that the bubblegum pop trend started to decline in late 2000. I think that's when it peaked. 2001 was the year that really saw the decline. N'Sync's "No Strings Attached" was very bubblegum. "Celebrity" on the other hand had a lot more urban influence. Didn't Britney and Christina change in around that time too?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Jul 31, 2018 9:38:54 GMT 10
I'm not sure if I'm right about this, but I think that the bubblegum pop trend started to decline in late 2000. I think bubblegum-pop began to decline in the US around that time, but in countries such as the UK, Australia and New Zealand, it remained in the mainstream until about 2003.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 14:38:10 GMT 10
I think that's when it peaked. 2001 was the year that really saw the decline. N'Sync's "No Strings Attached" was very bubblegum. "Celebrity" on the other hand had a lot more urban influence. Didn't Britney and Christina change in around that time too? Yeah they did. Most of the Y2K-era teen pop icons went urban around that time. Christina probably was the least so but even her stuff from 2003 sounds very different from 1999 and 2000.
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