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Every decade has its musical style that generally makes it easy to place what decade a song was written in if you haven't heard it before.

40s big band

50s rock and roll

60s essentially has its genre named after the decade or at least I can't think of anything I'd call a genre.

70s punk and beginnings of heavy metal, disco

80s electro synth, rap

90s grunge, dance, R&B, trance

Etc etc. Obviously these don't entirely define the music of the decade but are highly recognisable genres that can more often than not pinned down to a decade.

So my question is, since the 2000s I don't see as much differentiation but that might be because I'm too old (44) and not as exposed to be music as I was in my teens, so help me pretend I'm "hip" and "with it" by giving me some clues. I'm curious to know what you think defines the music of the 2020s, what defines the 2010s and what defines the 2000s. I.e. When someone says they are going to listen to noughties music what do they put on? Etc. Or have we reached a point where music has been explored to the point new genres are much rarer to establish?

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago

2000's - Indie Rock / Emo / Nu Metal

2010's - EDM songs with Pop singers and/or rappers on them

2020's - It's too early to say.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't follow music much, but I have a guess anyway. It seems like the number and diversity of genres just absolutely exploded since trading .mp3 files became a thing. And with digital stores and YouTube, distribution isn't a hurdle anymore, publishers don't have to pick and choose which albums to release, they can just do 'all' of them.

So there's just no longer one single sound that can define a decade the way it used to be, now people hear hundreds of wildly different bands in a year instead of a few dozen that were hand picked by studios because they had trendy sounds.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

And maybe this answer is kinda what I was thinking of. The justification your are supplying about the diminished influence of record labels makes sense and logically I can see that probably means the sound of the decades I listed was less organic and more manufactured. I also feel that there is probably less air for experimental genres to establish and become dominant like in the past.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

2000s, like others have said, was pop-punk, emo, nu metal. 2010s were cloud rappers, mumble rap, and bro country. 2020s I think are seeing a resurgence of pop, though with more aggression (both sonically and lyrically), and progressive subgenres of larger genres, as well as a lean towards inclusivity regarding sexual identity and preference. We won't know until it's over, though. We aren't even to have half-way mark of the 20s yet.

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

2010 - EDM, also dubstep (brostep) and Drum & Bass become widely popular.
Edit: If you're into Drum & Bass or Trap music, check out these lemmy communities: !drumandbass@lemmy.world and !trap@lemmy.world

[–] cosmoscoffee 6 points 2 months ago

That was also roughly the time when seemingly every pop song that was played in the radio had to have a drop in the middle of the track

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing. From my experience the internet has made it trivial to find bands of every style and I have not been able to pin one style to any decade. Even the top 40 hits of each year have been wildly varied compared to previous decades.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 months ago

I agree its the same as all media, just increasingly niche. which to me is a good thing as everything is available.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

2010s into the early 20s had a bit of a folksy thing going for a while with Mumford and sons and some other similar bands, the sea shanty kick a lot of people went on during covid, etc.

Dubstep also happened somewhere around the 2000s-2010s

Early 2000s had some people people were still surfing 3rd wave ska

This is probably just the circles I've been in but folk metal feels like it's been going pretty strong for the last 10 years or so

I also think country has been having a weird moment since around 2000 or so, some of it good, most of it not.

Vaporwave came into existence somewhere and I feel like that's just been kind of hanging around in the background present but largely unnoticed which I think is kind of the point

Not necessarily a genre onto its own, but mashups, remixes, covers, etc. I think have kind of become a surprisingly huge thing.

[–] Menschlicher_Fehler 5 points 2 months ago

2000s - The rise and fall of Nu Metal, at least in my country.

[–] Chromebby@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Also a big phase of emo/screamo/hardcore/post-hardcore, etc.

MTV2 and Fuse TV were briefly cool and went back to music videos.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My partner says all the music I listen to is just people whining. Can't say it's not true.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 2 months ago

The past 10 years has been dominated by female solo singers

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

2000s: garage rock revival 2010s: was this the decade when americana began to gain mainstream traction?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I know that 2010's might be rap, but other than that, I'm not sure. I tend to think of those decades as more about the dance, 2000's being the macarena, 2010's being gangnam style, and the 2020's being the Fortnite dance, give or take.

[–] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think the 2000s have much of anything. We keep remaking old things.