How much of a backlash did the 2000s receive this decade?

You mean how they were reacted against in pop culture (fashion, music, ...) or how much flack they recieved?

You mean how they were reacted against in pop culture (fashion, music, ...) or how much flack they recieved?

I mean how pop culture reacted against it.

There was a backlash until like 2014/2015
and people started realizing the early /mid 2010s were not that great lol

Very big in the early 2010s. I can remember it so clearly everyone hated the 2000s once it just ended and continued hating it throughout the early 2010s. However most people have no problem with the 2000s now and in fact many are nostalgic for it already, with the exception of some people who are older.

Uhm, folks, he just explained that's not what he meant. Anyway I can think of three aspects where the 2010s were a reaction against the 2000s:

Clothing: Skinny clothing are the complete opposite of the overly baggy clothing of the 2000s. Hipster culture bought a much more clean-cut and minimalistic approach to fashion, especially compared to the overloaded spirit of the noughties (mash-ups, glossiness, bedazzling, big belts, bell bottoms, multi-layered polos, ...).
Pastel and pale colors (see Millenial Pink) are the color of choice instead of the 2000s bright pink, teal and blue.

Music: Pop is much less bass-driven, slower and much more polished with a focus on airiness (especially since the mid-2010s). Overall the productions went from "glossy" in the 2000s to "gritty" in the 2010s, this is especially exemplified by R&B:

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Rock went from a overwhelming variety of popular subgenres (Nu-Metal, Post-Grunge, Pop Punk, Indie Rock, Metalcore, ...) to basically absent in any form.

Technology: Of course, portable technology got less chunky since the 2000s. Phones with keyboards were dead as soon 2010 hit in favor of the completely embraced touch screens. User faces went from a liquidy, 3d design in the 2000s to the complete opposite in the 2010s, the famous "flat design".

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Will think of more later.

Technology: Of course, portable technology got less chunky since the 2000s.

.. I miss that chunky technology. Hahaha You put a nice take on it that made me want to respond.

There was a big backlash against emo culture
Teen music went from this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc&index=12&list=PLu3mTm9OUMPO6NI58TPpxzUmxu20U5E74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6vs-l5dkc&list=PLu3mTm9OUMPO6NI58TPpxzUmxu20U5E74&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykW4rtW2eu0&list=PLu3mTm9OUMPO6NI58TPpxzUmxu20U5E74&index=38

To this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgFeZr5ptV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2BYmmTI04I
And fashion went from this:
http://trendymods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Emo-Clothing-for-girls-and-boys.jpg

To this:
https://www.fuse.tv/image/5646062c8a6b2c3f1100015f/768/512/justin-bieber-style-evolution-november-14-2009.jpg
I personally dislike emo culture, so I'm 100% fine with the fact that it died.

Emo or no emo, I still hate the fashion and music of this decade. I feel like that the music sounds tuneless and the fashion is too gendered for me. I would like emo back, because to me, the fashion didn't look so gendered. Some of the music might not have been palatable then (and even now), but some of the music that became popular in the 2010s I dislike, such as the two Avicii songs that were constantly on the radio. It sounded out of tune and one of them sounded too subdued for what it was trying to convey ("Wake Me Up").

People were glad they got out of the so called 'Decade from Hell', 90s internet nostalgia started rising in the early part of this decade with the 2000s/2000s kids being bashed at every corner.

People were glad they got out of the so called 'Decade from Hell', 90s internet nostalgia started rising in the early part of this decade with the 2000s/2000s kids being bashed at every corner.

90s kids hated 2000s kids way more than 2000s kids hate on 2010s kids I've noticed. I remember in the early '10s everybody wanted to be a '90s kid haha it was so corny.

90s kids hated 2000s kids way more than 2000s kids hate on 2010s kids I've noticed. I remember in the early '10s everybody wanted to be a '90s kid haha it was so corny.

Yeah it was ridiculous.  ;D  I wonder what caused them to hate us so much...

Well, skinny jeans and tighter clothing in general were reactions against the 2000s. Maybe also less emphasis on name brand clothing ( i.e. areopostale). It's hard to make this list because the early 2010s and late 2000s overlap in several ways.



90s kids hated 2000s kids way more than 2000s kids hate on 2010s kids I've noticed. I remember in the early '10s everybody wanted to be a '90s kid haha it was so corny.

90s kids used to be something vicious lol. They were extremely arrogant and off-putting. I didn't understand all the aggression and anger they put forth. I'm not saying all of them acted this way, because of course, the 90s kids on this board are nice.

90s kids hated 2000s kids way more than 2000s kids hate on 2010s kids I've noticed. I remember in the early '10s everybody wanted to be a '90s kid haha it was so corny.

I would say the 90s kids saw it as some competition just to brag about how things were soooo much better in the 90s and they're time. Lol yeah 2000s kids also wanted to become or consider themselves as 90s kids, now 2000s kids just want to seperate themselves from 2010s kids which is fine with me.

I'd say its more prone with people my age (1985er, and a true '90s kid). The 2000s was all about partying, letting loose, and trying to cope against the harsh news that came at us, from Iraq to Afghanistan to higher gas prices to social rights to eventually the recession while everyone was scrambling for employment. Nu metal, pop punk, glam rap, and the Cha Cha Slide were the music of our youth, while video gaming continue to move us with the sixth generation being a whole new, realistic contrast to our childhood gaming dominated by 2D platformers. Then as soon as 2010 hit, it was about settling down, starting families, moving, and passing the cultural torch to the late Millennials and now Gen Z. Not too unlike my parents' generation with regards to the 1970s vs. 1980s, which went from liking hard rock, funk, soul, punk, and disco to soft rock, contemporary soul, smooth jazz, and oldies.

People were glad they got out of the so called 'Decade from Hell', 90s internet nostalgia started rising in the early part of this decade with the 2000s/2000s kids being bashed at every corner.

I remember seeing 90s decade nostalgia online in 2008 as well.

I would say the 90s kids saw it as some competition just to brag about how things were soooo much better in the 90s and they're time. Lol yeah 2000s kids also wanted to become or consider themselves as 90s kids, now 2000s kids just want to seperate themselves from 2010s kids which is fine with me.

Honestly, I would say a person's "time" is predominantly their late teen and young adult years. Those are the years you're the target audience of pop culture. It's strange for one to consider childhood years as being their "time."

Honestly, I would say a person's "time" is predominantly their late teen and young adult years. Those are the years you're the target audience of pop culture. It's strange for one to consider childhood years as being their "time."

When i mean't time i just mean't the 90s honestly.

Honestly, I would say a person's "time" is predominantly their late teen and young adult years. Those are the years you're the target audience of pop culture. It's strange for one to consider childhood years as being their "time."

I don't know. I'm 15 turning 16 in less than a month, but I definitely do without a doubt feel like the mid-late 2010's have been apart of "my time" AKA middle and high school. I'll still be in "my time" for the majority of the 2020's.

I don't know. I'm 15 turning 16 in less than a month, but I definitely do without a doubt feel like the mid-late 2010's have been apart of "my time" AKA middle and high school. I'll still be in "my time" for the majority of the 2020's.

Same honestly.

I don't know. I'm 15 turning 16 in less than a month, but I definitely do without a doubt feel like the mid-late 2010's have been apart of "my time" AKA middle and high school. I'll still be in "my time" for the majority of the 2020's.

I felt like that until I got older. I mean at 15, of course I felt like it was "my time" because I hadn't experienced my adult years yet  ;D. Also when I said "late teens" I was referring to ages 15-17 and young adult years 18-25. I think these are the years people look back on the most when they're in their 40s+. But of course, middle school can still be apart of your time. For me personally, I don't think about middle school or reminisce too much about my childhood anymore.

The 2010s and probably the early 20s would be considered my time since I spent all of high school and college years in this decade and when the 20s arrive I'll be still be apart of pop culture cohort.

I would say the 90s kids saw it as some competition just to brag about how things were soooo much better in the 90s and they're time. Lol yeah 2000s kids also wanted to become or consider themselves as 90s kids, now 2000s kids just want to seperate themselves from 2010s kids which is fine with me.


As a 90s kid...I must have missed out on the all that. Maybe it was more of a late millennial thing? I think my 90s childhood was particularly special because it was that weird era right before the turn of the millennium. If you really knew and understood how big Nickelodeon, Saturday morning cartoons, kid fads and kid culture in general was, you'd probably be jealous. But ya know what? I'm sure there's a lot about your childhood I'd probably be jealous of too. And also, I had no say of when I was born so it feels weird to be proud of something I had no hand in. For me personally, the 90s felt so real while the core 2000s felt plastic. I think a lot of "real" 90s kids get aggravated over how when younger people tend to only reference late 90s as The 90s, when there was more to the decade. Anyway, I personally envy people who got to experience the 70s. When I was little, I was jealous of how my parents experienced the funky Soul Train of the 70s while I had the hip-hop Soul Train of the 90s.

As a 90s kid...I must have missed out on the all that. Maybe it was more of a late millennial thing? I think my 90s childhood was particularly special because it was that weird era right before the turn of the millennium. If you really knew and understood how big Nickelodeon, Saturday morning cartoons, kid fads and kid culture in general was, you'd probably be jealous. But ya know what? I'm sure there's a lot about your childhood I'd probably be jealous of too. And also, I had no say of when I was born so it feels weird to be proud of something I had no hand in. For me personally, the 90s felt so real while the core 2000s felt plastic. I think a lot of "real" 90s kids get aggravated over how when younger people tend to only reference late 90s as The 90s, when there was more to the decade. Anyway, I personally envy people who got to experience the 70s. When I was little, I was jealous of how my parents experienced the funky Soul Train of the 70s while I had the hip-hop Soul Train of the 90s.

No i wouldn't be jealous just because you had Tiny Toon's or Animaniacs on TV every saturday morning.

No i wouldn't be jealous just because you had Tiny Toon's or Animaniacs on TV every saturday morning.


haha. Don't know if that's sarcasm or not. Anyway, I liked Animaniacs and Freakazoid. Didn't really watch much Tiny Toons. I was way more of a Goosebumps, X-Men, Spiderman guy. If I woke up early enough, which I rarely did, I could catch DBZ. Watching DBZ one episode per week...was beyond frustrating.

Oh...no...I just remembered Wishbone and Arthur and listening to the Reading Rainbow song...before changing the channel after the intro. My nostalgia is making me sad now. :\'(

No i wouldn't be jealous just because you had Tiny Toon's or Animaniacs on TV every saturday morning.

lmfao.

@Bornin86
I could see why 90s kids would be annoyed with people only referencing the late 90s, The late 90s isn't even core 90s

haha. Don't know if that's sarcasm or not. Anyway, I liked Animaniacs and Freakazoid. Didn't really watch much Tiny Toons. I was way more of a Goosebumps, X-Men, Spiderman guy. If I woke up early enough, which I rarely did, I could catch DBZ. Watching DBZ one episode per week...was beyond frustrating.

Oh...no...I just remembered Wishbone and Arthur and listening to the Reading Rainbow song...before changing the channel after the intro. My nostalgia is making me sad now. :\'(

I wasn't being sarcastic and yeah the 80s,90s,00s had more of variery of saturday morning cartoons.

Honestly, I would say a person's "time" is predominantly their late teen and young adult years. Those are the years you're the target audience of pop culture. It's strange for one to consider childhood years as being their "time."


At this point, I've come to believe your "time" is what you make it. In the 2000s, it felt like it was "my time" in 00, 01, 08, and 09. The rest of those years didn't feel like they appealed to me. I remember disliking the early 90s, loving the core 90s, and a love/hate relationship with the late 90s. It's funny because now I've come to appreciate the early 90s.

lmfao.

@Bornin86
I could see why 90s kids would be annoyed with people only referencing the late 90s, The late 90s isn't even core 90s


Right? It feels petty bashing people over...and it is kind of petty. But, still. It's aggravating. It seems like 90s facts like how the early 90s was still pretty 80sish, how big Batman was throughout the decade, the omnipresence of African American sitcoms (that somehow almost evaporated in the 00s), how big Pauly Shore was...is lost on a lot of people. But everyone knows about Britney Spears and Pokemon, and those things appeared at the tail end of the decade. Imagine if the only thing that people younger than you recalled of the 00s was Lady Gaga.

I was born in 1988 and I consider my time my happiest years.
So most of the childhood (the 90s), some minor parts of my teens like 2003 and 2004 (what?! teens are awckward!) and the early 2010s when I was in my early-mid 20s 2010-2014 (ages 21-25). Just like BornIn86, I think your time is what you make of it.
I'm just as nostalgic for the Call Me Maybe/Gangnam Style/Blurred Lines/Royals era as a teen or pre-teen kid from back then is. At 25 I was the happiest person in the world! In love with everything. Just like when you were a kid. :) :) :) The secret is I got my depression treated and my thyroid issue as well so I was my old, happy personality. I was very upbeat as a kid, so I guss that is my real self. Too bad I have side effects so had to quit, so now the 2015-2018 era seems dull.

Imagine if the only thing that people younger than you recalled of the 00s was Lady Gaga.

Well, I see people doing that already lol. In general, when recalling the 2000s, I don't see that many people in the mainstream mentioning things I enjoyed from that decade.

lmfao.

@Bornin86
I could see why 90s kids would be annoyed with people only referencing the late 90s, The late 90s isn't even core 90s

Except that everyone outside this site sees every year of the 90s as core 90s, even the late 90s.

As a 90s kid...I must have missed out on the all that. Maybe it was more of a late millennial thing? I think my 90s childhood was particularly special because it was that weird era right before the turn of the millennium. If you really knew and understood how big Nickelodeon, Saturday morning cartoons, kid fads and kid culture in general was, you'd probably be jealous. But ya know what? I'm sure there's a lot about your childhood I'd probably be jealous of too. And also, I had no say of when I was born so it feels weird to be proud of something I had no hand in. For me personally, the 90s felt so real while the core 2000s felt plastic. I think a lot of "real" 90s kids get aggravated over how when younger people tend to only reference late 90s as The 90s, when there was more to the decade. Anyway, I personally envy people who got to experience the 70s. When I was little, I was jealous of how my parents experienced the funky Soul Train of the 70s while I had the hip-hop Soul Train of the 90s.
Yea that does get annyoing when someone my age say only 90s kids remember when they were barely alive in the 90s. I'm happy to be a 2000s kid, i know a lot of people here hate 2000s fashion and music, but i enjoyed it. The 2000s was more than just ringtone rap and emo. You had arguably the best decade for pop music, Hip-hop was more diverse because it was based on region and they were more variety in what cellphone you had nowadays it's just Android (mostly Samsung) or (iPhone)

Best is subjective, maybe it was best for you, but for me 2010-2014 had much better music than most of the 2000s. I only liked music in 2000-2001 and 2003-2004 without the teen pop c*dp that today sounds awful and didn't pass the test of time. Most of 2000's didn't actually, especially the tunes after 2004 but before Lady Gaga and EDM (That awful 2007's Lucky You house track!). I'd rather listen to Rihanna's early 2010's offerings than all her 2005-2009 stuff. I prefer Monster to Umbrella or Pon De Replay. The 90s were great culturally except for the music. 80's music is much better in my opinion while 2000s one was more diverse. 2003 and 2004 had the best hits in my opinion out of all the 2000s, maybe only 2008 and 2009 after Lady Gaga were better. 2005-2007 were terrible while 2000-2001 had some nice things but was mostly meh like the 90's. It's no wonder why in the 90's and up until early 2003, I mostly shunned modern music videos/radio while I preferred 70's-80's. In 2003-2004 I liked the then-current offerings. Then it took Lady Gaga to change the boring 2005-2007 music landscape.

If it hasn't already been mentioned, in the 2000s women often used to pluck their eyebrows to an extreme. In the 2010s it's been more fashionable to have thick eyebrows. I'm half expecting thin eyebrows to come back in the next few years.

That said Kylie’s last great era was Body Language in late 2003-mid 2004. Red Blooded Woman and Chocolate still sound good for a summer afternoon dinner. “I Don’t Wanna Know” by Mario was so cool as well as JoJo’s “Leave (Get Out)”. Dido’s “White Flag” and “Life for rent” were huge here on VH1. For 2003 I miss Evanesence “Bring Me To Life”, Jewel doing sexy pop/RnB in “Intuition”. “I Begin To Wonder” and “Call On Me” were big summer hits here in 2003 and 2004 respectingly.

If it hasn't already been mentioned, in the 2000s women often used to pluck their eyebrows to an extreme. In the 2010s it's been more fashionable to have thick eyebrows.

Both trends were taken to the extreme.

There are a few reasons why people such as myself have come around on the 2000s, although I have stated before that I never 'hated' the decade. One of those reasons is simply that we now have some distance to actually reflect upon and appreciate our experiences without hiding behind the novelty of new decade. The early 2010s showed a lot of promise, but things have steadily gone downhill since then. The last few years have been a total sh*t show. Although the three main calamities of the 2000s (9/11, War on Terror, Great Recession) were undoubtedly more catastrophic than anything we've dealt with this decade, I would argue that those events were simply a matter of history repeating itself. The issues plaguing us (Americans) today feel somewhat unprecedented, and there's really no historical reference to guide us through it. It's really an existential crisis more than anything else.

lmfao.

@Bornin86
I could see why 90s kids would be annoyed with people only referencing the late 90s, The late 90s isn't even core 90s


People have been saying this for literally over a decade now. Without getting into decadeology, I would proffer that 1997 (a nominally late 90s year) was more '90s' than any of the early 90s years and the most '90s' year after 1994-96. At least in 1997 most of the stuff that we've now come to associate with the decade had actually happened. Just saying.

Windows XP was an institution, the most used OS for the majority of the 2000s.
I myself used it from 2004 till 2014ish. Vista was underrated but was not that bad.
For music 2003 and 2004 had the best 2000s music in my ipinion, although 2000-2002 and 2005 had many gems. 2006 and 2007 were the worst years for pop music for me, a total wasteland (I'd say the same for 2015-2018). Lady Gaga saved pop music imo! ;)

An early 00s gem that sounds both dated and timeless somehow lol:
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Look how in 2009 songs started to sound better than the 2006-2007 terrible era:
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Also the video looks more like eary 2010s rather than 2005-2007. Some 2008-2009 things still sound/look vaguely fresh. Rest of 2000s is very dated, esecially the early part. Surprisingly Kylie's Slow, Red Blooded Woman and Chocolate sound timeless. :)