2009: What is your opinion of music from that year?

I've hummed and harred over these past couple of years as to what I would consider to be my least favourite '00s year for music overall, 2006 or 2009. However, I've ultimately settled on 2009 as being the year which I personally dislike the most and there's a few reasons for that. Even though 2009 is now eleven years ago (incredible to think about) and I was just a 10 year old kid at the time, there's honestly very little from 2009 which I feel sentimental about. It's honestly not a year which I have much nostalgia for at all really, whether that's simply because I had entered into my late childhood at that time or it's a reflection on the substandard quality of the year itself, i'm not sure. 

I did fall out of touch with music around the beginning of 2009 though. When "My People" by The Presets (a huge electropop hit here in Australia) became a Top-20 hit around the turn of 2009, that was the moment which made me think that music had gone downhill. I could never take to electropop. It just wasn't a genre of music that ever appealed to me, and I hated the fact that my favourite genre (rock) was seemingly dying a slow death at the same time. The rock songs that were hits in 2009 weren't particularly that good either. I like "Gives You Hell" by the All-American Rejects now, but I can remember feeling indifferent towards the song at the time as it was overplayed and I didn't think of it as being any different to generic pop-rock on the radio. I've never liked Muse's "Uprising", not have I ever been into Green Day's "21 Guns" or "Know Your Enemy". I can distinctively remember thinking that Orianthi's "According To You" sounded like a Disney Channel song, which is the only reason why I wasn't a fan of it back then.

Of course, as is the case with almost every year though, there are some songs from 2009 which I like. Bluejuice's "Broken Leg" was my favourite song back then. I asked my Mum to search for the song on Limewire and iTunes at the time, however I never knew what the name of the song (or the artist) was and it wasn't until I happened to browse through a few ARIA Charts from 2009 nine years later that I actually discovered what the name of it was. 

Some songs from back then which I like:

Best year ever

music wise it was amazing


atmosphere wise it was like a bomb went off

I’d say I have a favorable opinion. After 2 years of sparsely listening to top 40 radio the previous couple of years. I started listening more in late 2008 and especially 2009. I guess it probably has to do with the fading of ringtone rap, post grunge, and bland pop. And the start of electropop and more indie sounds. Hip Hop was changing too stuff like “Day N’ Nite” by Kid Cudi sounded completely different to the ringtone rap of only a year and a half earlier.

I'd take 2009 over 2020, economy and all. The 2008-09 Great Recession was pretty mild compared to what we're about to have. I've never been this terrified about the future in my life.

I agree, I would even go as far as saying that 2007 is my favourite '00s year for music. 


Things are pretty bleak in the world right now, but if the coronavirus has shown us anything, it's that you never know what's around the corner. Life will get better. 

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