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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2022 17:58:40 GMT 10
In 2008, Americans were excited to get Bush out of office. I don’t even recall Obama getting as much backlash as Bush did in their latter years in office until Trump. Environmentalism became important, so much that I had to perform songs with my 4th grade class about going green that spring. One of the songs was called “It’s Easy Being Green.” I felt a progressive and liberal vibe starting to take over, especially with Obama winning the election. I truly felt as if society was headed in a progressive direction, despite the Great Recession. Women’s rights, equal pay and lgbtqia+ topics came more to light or the forefront of topics. Upbeat electro-pop music started taking over. Of course that reached a fever pitch between 2010 and 2012.
I’m speaking mainly about 2008 through 2012, but can include 2013 and 2014 to an extent as those years still had early 2010s remnants.
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Post by John Titor on Jan 7, 2022 2:40:01 GMT 10
In 2008, Americans were excited to get Bush out of office. I don’t even recall Obama getting as much backlash as Bush did in their latter years in office until Trump. Environmentalism became important, so much that I had to perform songs with my 4th grade class about going green that spring. One of the songs was called “It’s Easy Being Green.” I felt a progressive and liberal vibe starting to take over, especially with Obama winning the election. I truly felt as if society was headed in a progressive direction, despite the Great Recession. Women’s rights, equal pay and lgbtqia+ topics came more to light or the forefront of topics. Upbeat electro-pop music started taking over. Of course that reached a fever pitch between 2010 and 2012. I’m speaking mainly about 2008 through 2012, but can include 2013 and 2014 to an extent as those years still had early 2010s remnants. There are a ton of factors but one that never gets talked about and people hate to admit is that gangsta rap, r&b and pop punk were dominating the radio for almost 9 years, people were sick of it. The reason why pop punk was gone for so long is because it had a really long run. That is as far the music side of things, as for the progressive political side of things the United States was at peak levels of "get Bush out of the white house" even moreso than 2004 and 2005. Then you have the economy which by 2007 was getting worse and worse but for the most part the media ignored it until it was at an all time fever pitch in Fall 2008 when it became unavoidable.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jan 7, 2022 13:17:08 GMT 10
People were sick of the music of the 2000s and wanted a complete 180. There ya go, I was literally there lol.
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Post by John Titor on Jan 8, 2022 2:12:39 GMT 10
People were sick of the music of the 2000s and wanted a complete 180. There ya go, I was literally there lol. this
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Post by John Titor on Jan 8, 2022 2:15:49 GMT 10
There are a ton of factors but one that never gets talked about and people hate to admit is that gangsta rap, r&b and pop punk were dominating the radio for almost 9 years, people were sick of it. The reason why pop punk was gone for so long is because it had a really long run. That is as far the music side of things, as for the progressive political side of things the United States was at peak levels of "get Bush out of the white house" even moreso than 2004 and 2005. Then you have the economy which by 2007 was getting worse and worse but for the most part the media ignored it until it was at an all time fever pitch in Fall 2008 when it became unavoidable. Somewhere online, I read that gangsta rap, r’n’b and pop punk fell out of favor with the mainstream around mid to late 2009. I recall pop punk music was everywhere in the 2000s from the radio to restaurants to amusement parks to stores to schools to malls, etc. Pop punk music was also used on commercials, TV show and movie introductions. The fact that people got tired of it makes sense to me. Almost every boy at my school wanted to appear gangsta. I think in December 2008, someone threw a shoe at Bush’s head lol. People were that excited to get him out of office. I recall hearing about the economy starting to slip in 2006 and 2007. Mostly everyone didn’t take that seriously and acted like they’ve got nothing to worry about. Then the stock market crashed on September 29, 2008. We all know what happened afterwards. We saw that ignorance again in 2016 with Trump’s election and in 2020 with COVID. I guess America never learns. As far as early 2007 I started seeing problems in the school pay with teachers not showing due to lack of pay & some small business closing down. Mind you this was around Feb-March 2007 time frame months before the December 2007 start date
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Post by John Titor on Jan 8, 2022 7:45:06 GMT 10
As far as early 2007 I started seeing problems in the school pay with teachers not showing due to lack of pay & some small business closing down. Mind you this was around Feb-March 2007 time frame months before the December 2007 start date I appreciate your take on this, because this whole time I thought early 2007 was great for economy like 2004-2006. Now that I think about it, the slow drop off phase began in 2006, escalated throughout 2007 and crashed in late 2008. Yeah in hindsight looking back I could see signs in early 2007.
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