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I think a lot of things turned in 1996-98. The culture changed.
-The NBA changed. Took a turn for the worst after Jordan.
-TV. Things like TGIF on ABC, family shows (Cosby). I remember when the only reality shows were Americas Funniest Home Videos, or the Real World on MTV.
-Music, pretty big shift. Away from "adult groups", REM or U2. To Britney Spears, the boy bands, etc.
-Wrestling!! I use to like WCW Monday Nitro, lol. Wrestling went to trash after 2000 or 2002.
It definitely depends on when you grew up. Remember people didn't like Elvis, lol. Shaking his hips on tv was considered, risque? Now it's Justin Bieber, lol.
2003, although before that I'd say the last year was 1993. 2003 was an outlier in an otherwise forgettable (at least for me) decade.
2010 was pretty much the absolute zero of mainstream music. You can't possibly do worse than 2010; you'd have bust a septic tank in order to get a larger amount of crap on the radio. Fortunately, 2011 and 2012 did not in fact get worse (it was impossible to get worse anyway), and 2013 has actually been quite decent.
I actually think 2012 was fairly good considering. The re-emergence of decent (relatively) folk rock (Lumineers, Mumford and Sons) and then artists like Adele and Gotye. Mainstream acceptance and appreciation of an artist performing in a different language (Psy).
Seems like something of a renaissance after years of teen pop and auto-tuned rap.
Add about eight years to a poster's high school graduating year and that's the year.
So, if a poster graduated in 1943, it's about 1951. If he graduated in 1976, it's about 1984. etc.
After that year, all the music sounds bad and music isn't as good as it used to be.
Before that year, musicians knew how to play and music was meaningful.
After that year, music was just noise and there was less decency.
Great way to put it, I think with that said this post is done
I would say good mainstream music met its end in 1980. People's taste started to go south around 1977, but it took 4 years for the crap to totally infiltrate the mainstream.
2014...City Data really is full of the bitter and senile as I suspected.
And exactly how did you came to this conclusion?
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