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katiesghost2 replied to your photoset “R&B gems of the early 2000’s”
There's also P!nk's "Can't Take Me Home", Christina Aguilera's "Stripped", Erykah Badu's "Mama's Gun" and Jill Scott and India.Aire's albums. Don't forget them.
I love some of those albums. I could only fit in 9 photos.
Yeah, he's a turd.
Sadly and unfortunately, your IM isn't working right now, when I click on it, it reads "our computer is a loser" and that you're "currently offline" even though you're probably not. I need to say this...I quit watching "Rick and Morty" months ago, however, I found out they made a new "Rick and Morty" episode, and one girl on that episode that came out 2 days ago looks like the girl I always wanted to be, another female character looks like my original "R&M" character. Continued...
Yeah, I know who you’re talking about. Her name’s Tricia, she’s one of Jessica’s friends.
Do you think the 2000's were like the 80's version 2.0? Would you also perhaps say this decade the 2010's are like the 90's version 2.0? I want to talk with you about this via IM!
The late ‘’90s and early 2000s had some ‘70s revival stuff going on. I’d say it was around 2006 that it started shifting over to ‘80s. The late 2000s -- think 2006-2010 -- were all up on the ‘80s nostalgia. People who were kids in the 80s, like my boyfriend, were in their late 20s at that point.2010-2011 is when you started seeing a shift to ‘90s grunge aesthetics. It was very distinctively early ‘90s, like 1990-1994.Now, the 2000s are creeping in as a nostalgia revival, along with the very late 90s. I’m 27, so it’s really the kind of nostalgia I actually remember. Like, from the 90s, I remember toys and cartoons and stuff. The 2000s were my teen years, so stuff like screenshots from the original The Sims, and images of Windows 98, really strike a chord with me.I am not sure when the “20 year nostalgia cycle” began. I’d tentatively say the late ‘90s ‘70s revival was the beginning, but I’m not really sure.
Is reality TV starting to become "not a thing" anymore? I know there are many reality shows out there on TV today, but reality TV doesn't seem to be so hugely popular like it was in the 2000's and it doesn't really seem to be a thing like it used to be.
It’s still around, but it definitely peaked in the early to mid 2000s!I’m just barely old enough that I actually remember a lot from that time about reality TV. The Real World was first, but it really started taking off with the massive success of Survivor around 2001 or so.Reality TV was not only popular with audiences, but it was cheap to make -- no scripts, no real paid actors, etc. So there was this huge explosion of reality shows on almost any conceivable topic or scenario.Reality TV was probably one of the biggest trends of that entire decade.I think interest in that genre has probably died down somewhat, but that it will continue to exist as a genre for decades to come. Kind of like game shows, which also had a big popularity resurgence in the early 2000s.
Do you think the only people who really are going to be nostalgic for the 2000's were 2000's kids? I've seen many people who were not 2000's kids saying how there's not much to be nostalgic over from the 2000's, which is very sad, and I'll talk with you about that later, but I wonder if that could be said about other decades as well, that the only people who would be nostalgic for the 90's were 90's kids or 90's teens, and the people nostalgic for the 80's were 80's kids.
Probably a mixture of both. I was a preteen and teen during that decade -- 10 in 2000, 19 in 2009.I’m not sure I could call myself a “2000s kid.” I’m a legit “’90s kid,” in that I actually have episodic memories from the 1990s. (Mostly mid to late, but still.) Being a kid during a decade gives you a different perspective than being a teen, though. For example, my boyfriend is 37, and I’m 27. One decade apart. I remember kid stuff from the mid to late ‘90s, like Nicktoons, Beanie Babies, and Furbies. He remembers different things than I do, like the mid-’90s ska revival. He remembers when Colombine happened, and was old enough to really understand the significance of that event. I remember Monica Lewinsky and a little here and there of OJ, but I was so young that I wasn’t fully aware of the ramifications of those big media events.There’s tons of stuff to be nostalgic for from the 2000s. One is Myspace, along with Livejournal and AIM. Social media was different. The Internet was a little more “Wild West” back then -- less so than in the ‘90s, but much more so than today. The whole idea of “social media” was a brand new development. Blogging was relatively new, as well. It was interesting living through the rise of blogs, social media, and other things that you could call “Web 2.0.”
Do you think there's more to life than nostalgia? There is this British FutureKing clone who wonders what is there from the 2010's to be nostalgic over, and I've seen people say there isn't much from the 2000's to be nostalgic over, which has made me sad, but do you think there is more to life than nostalgia? Do you also think nostalgia is overrated?
Well, of course there’s more to life than nostalgia. It’s something everyone experiences, but it isn’t wise to dwell on it too much or get too strongly attached to it.The past is in the past. We can remember it and we can learn from it, but we cannot change it or revisit it. There is only now, the current moment, and it’s psychologically important to be present in it. Letting the past go is important.There will definitely be 2010s nostalgia. Give it fifteen years or so. And 2000s nostalgia is just beginning to pop up, since enough time has passed.
Do you think there are things from the 2000's worth being nostalgic over?
You have to remember, nostalgia is in many ways a highly personal thing. We have nostalgia for things that remind us of long-gone times in our lives -- usually the good ones.I’ll be honest, the time period from 2001-2007 or so was not exactly the best times of my life. It was difficult. I wasn’t socially well adjusted, I was overweight, and there were even a couple of years in there in which I really didn’t have any friends at all. Middle school and high school suck.But I still look back with some degree of nostalgia on things that meant a lot to me back then. I was a mallgoth and not all that into “mainstream” pop culture, but I was really into Nine Inch Nails.
The music of NIN, and the lyrics, really resonated with me at this one specific time of my life, around ages 14-16. Today, it doesn’t resonate nearly as much. I still appreciate it for what it is, but I’m past the stage of my life where the lyrical content really reflected myself and my own concerns and struggles.But I’ll always have a fondness for them, because of what they meant at that moment in time. Same with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire.I also think we’re in a unique time period right now where just enough time has passed that we can start looking back objectively on that decade. It’s removed from us enough, in time, that we can start analyzing cultural shifts and trends that really defined that decade.
