Good lord, the mid-2010s feel so different.

Well, in some ways yes, but in some ways its similar because of Instagram, Vine, and YouTubers like Jake and Logan Paul, Pewdiepie, and Casey Neistat are still popular. Also, despite sounding different, weve had Trap since late 2013.

I'm conflicted about that era myself.  I hated it when it was happening due to my personal circumstances.  However, I liked the culture, vibe, and the direction society was headed then so much better than now.  I really kind of miss hipster culture.  I miss good, original movies.  The late 2010s have been beyond depressing.

Nah I would say 2010 was the weirdest year of the 2010's simply because nobody knew what the 2010's were going to be like.

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It doesn't really surprise me. A lot can change within a five year period. In 2004, you had crunk, pop-punk, "post" post-grunge and the garage-rock revival ruling the Top-40 airwaves. By the time 2009 rolled around, Emo (which was still in it's early beginnings back in '04) had already started to decline in popularity, electropop had firmly established itself, indie-pop was slowly starting to gain momentum and you had the early releases from artists who would go onto define the 2010s, such as Miley Cyrus, Kesha, Taylor Swift etc.

Relating back to the Mid 2010s, there's no doubt that we are in a different cultural era to the one we were in back then, however I wouldn't say music is drastically different. A lot of the same artists who were popular back then are still scoring Top-40 hits now, like Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Sam Smith and Shawn Mendes. I mean sure, there may be less EDM, a lot more minimalist alt-pop, a little less indie-rock, however when you compare music's evolution from 2014-2019 in comparison to the second-halves of previous decades, you'll realise that the differences are much less substantial.

Oh word, I also really miss the hipsters. If I can find time between my baby and my job, I’ll try to write a retrospective.

I think the mid 2010s were culturally more similar to the late 2000s than they are the late 2010s.  The only thing now that really hasn't changed as much as the music.  Almost everything else is like a night and day difference between now and then.

The mid-2010s are automatically dated to me as I was still in highschool back then and it feels quite a while now.

Now looking back at the music specifically, I guess it's funny to see how not-so-widespread trap music was and that "future bass" was literally still unheard of instead of being in basically every pop song a mere 5 years ago.