Did the 2000's even have it's own identity? (WWII, influence, general)

[video646]

Originally Posted by PhenomenalAJ

The 2000s was very different from the 90s. The optimistic 90s were replaced by the depressed Bush era. It had red-blue states, death of rap and R&B, reality shows, rise of MMA, gay marriage movement, emo music taking over the rock charts, American Idol, superhero movies etc. Not that hard to see....

Death of rap and R&B? 2003 was the year where those genres took over, and dominated the airwaves for the next 5 years.

[Grandstander]

Listing things which were in fashion or took place during a decade is not decade identification unless you can wrap all of it up into a singular summary. Like "The Roaring Twenties", the Depression '30's, the war '40's, rebellious '60's, self absorbed '70's, corporate greed '80's and so forth.

Neither the '90's nor the '00's has produced that singular summary. Perhaps this is due to the increasing fragmentation of the culture, we are no longer all doing the same things, watching the same shows, neither decade could be described as either liberal conservative dominated.

[anonymous14]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

The 80's were optimistic. The 90's introduced self-deprecating complaint bands such as Pearl Jam and Nirvanna. By the mid 90's, there was strong opinion that the whole world was going to die due to global warming and that Western Civilization was responsible for Third World famine and that we were all really bad and selfish people. Even by the end of 1991 there was already a strong distinction between the 80's and what was emerging out of the 90's.

In my opinion, that whole '89 to '93 era was optimistic despite the grunge. There were a lot of bright neon colors being worn too.

-The Berlin Wall Fell
-Mandela Was Freed
-The Internet Was Launched
-The Cold War Ended
-Americans lived in a time without war for the first time again
-Americans enjoyed the last year for Summer and Winter Olympics

I have nothing to say for the mid 90's (1993-1996) or late 90's (1996-1999).

[anonymous14]

The 2000's will be most remembered for 9/11.

The 00's were

-The first decade of people staying on the Internet all day.
-The Harry Potter decade.
-The first decade of Marvel movies.
-The decade where Steve Jobs could do no wrong.
-The Paris Hilton/ Perez Hilton Decade.
-The decade when Japanese animation took over.
-The decade of anybody having a child.
-The decade of John Mayer/Beyonce/Jay-Z/J-Lo/Britney Spears/Justin Timberlake
-A time for Dave Chappelle Show jokes.Race humor made a comeback.
-When people enjoyed Appatow flicks.
-A time of watching I Love the 80's marathons on V-H1 all day long just about.

The 90's gave birth to the 2000's underneath it all. South Park became the show everyone watched because it ran with the times. Shrek went from being a book to being a motion picture with many sequels. Overall, the 00's were okay. They lack the kitsch the 70's, 80's, and very early 90's had. No one wore anything memorable for the first time. Crocs just aren't up there with the Bell Bottoms of '74, the Members Only Jacket of '81, or the Hammer Pants of '90/'91. The 00's are not old yet. They got the world to where we are now.

[anonymous14]

Originally Posted by Grandstander

Listing things which were in fashion or took place during a decade is not decade identification unless you can wrap all of it up into a singular summary. Like "The Roaring Twenties", the Depression '30's, the war '40's, rebellious '60's, self absorbed '70's, corporate greed '80's and so forth.

Neither the '90's nor the '00's has produced that singular summary. Perhaps this is due to the increasing fragmentation of the culture, we are no longer all doing the same things, watching the same shows, neither decade could be described as either liberal conservative dominated.

The 90's were "Extremely" childish. There was a lot of entertainment for children in them.

I have no idea what the 2000's are yet. We are living in the result of them. Perhaps they were the information highway 00's, but I am not sure. In the 00's, everything was out there for anyone to see.

[jzcrandall]

I don't know that the 21st century will be fractured into decades the way the 20th century was. Even in the 20th century, you had things that couldn't be clumped into one decade. We associate the Civil Rights Movement with the 60's, but Brown v. Board of Education was in 1955, and then you had the issue of bussing carried into the 1980's. Vietnam started in the 1950's when the French Army faced resistance in French Indochina and carried into the 1970's with the fall of Saigon. It'll be interesting to see how everything falls into place with the 21st century.

[silibran]

Harry Potter.

[Shadow Walker]

This is how I picture the 2000s IMO:

Plaid, Double Layered shirts, Wii, Playstations 2 and 3, Post-Grunge, Bubblegum pop, the internet, skinny jeans, Spyro the Dragon, Lady Gaga, Spongebob Squarepants, Bionicle, Harry Potter, Silly Bandz, Spiked hair, emo, "Support our Troops" stickers on cars, and reality TV.

There are honestly a few good reality shows from the 2000s such as Pawn Stars (2009-present) and American Idol (2002-present).The quintessential 2000s IMO was 2002-2008. 1997-2000 and 2010-2013 had 2000s influences. 2001 and 2009 were mostly 2000s but had '90s (2001) and '10s (2009) influences on them. The 2000s overall, were okay in my opinion. People only like to focus on the decade's bad side probably due to the nostalgia craze over the '90s. The 2000s culture went from 2001 to early 2011. In my opinion, the 2000s started in 9/11 and ended as soon as Osama Bin Laden was killed (mid-2011).



'40s: 1941 to 1947
'50s: 1948 to 1963
'60s: 1964 to 1973
'70s: 1974 to 1981
'80s: 1982 to 1991
'90s: 1992 to 2000
'00s: 2001 to 2010
'10s: 2011 to present

[belmont22]

I think of the 2000s as being when lower class culture became cool. Like tattoos, piercings, ghetto fashion etc was embraced even by preppie white teenage girls. I guess this started in the 90s but it went into full bloom by the early 2000s.

[tamajane]

Britney Spears brought it all down.