(AM2B) 2000's Era Music in the U.S. Lesson

2000's Era Music in the U.S. Lesson 

The 2000s were for the most part dominated by many of the same musical styles that dominated the 1990s, and styles from previous decades were also revived. Unlike many past decades, the 2000s did not see the creation or emergence of many styles, with the exception of a few indie-related genres such as emo.

The popularity of teen pop carried over from the 1990s with acts such as *NSYNC, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera dominating the charts in the earlier years of the decade.

R&B, which was very successful in the early years of the 2000s, saw a steep decline in popularity throughout the decade. This was in part due to the rise of hip hop and subgenres such as crunk and snap music, even though a fusion of these styles with R&B in crunk&B and snap&B saw success in the mid-to-late 2000s.

Despite the hip hop dominance (particularly Southern hip hop which lasted for most of the decade), rock music was still popular, notably alternative rock, and especially genres such as post-grunge, post-Britpop, nu metal, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, metalcore and indie rock; the decade also saw the garage rock and post punk revival.

Despite a slight slip of popularity in the early part of the decade, adult contemporary and country music were still able to find success throughout the 2000s.

Electronic music was also highly popular throughout the decade; at the beginning of the 2000s, genres such as trance, chillout, house, indietronica, and Eurodance (in Europe) were popular, yet, by the end of the decade, dance-oriented forms of electronic music, such as synthpop, electropop, nu-disco and electro house had become popular.

By the end of the decade, a fusion between hip hop and electronic dance similar to the Freestyle music of the late 1980s and early '90s, known as Hip House also grew successful. In general, pop became more commercially successful than all other forms of popular music by the late 2000s due to recession.

The Internet allowed unprecedented access to music and allowed artists to distribute music freely without label backing. Innumerable online outlets and sheer volume of music augmented a culture of fragmentation and niches, a process begun with the rise of alternative rock in the 1990s. It also offers musicians a plethora of musical influences to draw from.

Although more affection for the music might grow over time, two public opinion polls listed the 2000's as the least favored tune decade of the last 50 years.

 

 

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