Early-to-mid 2000s nostalgia.

[fingercuffs]

But I don't use Spotify. LOL.

It seems like everyone else does these days though, huh? I used to have an Amazon Music account but I stopped subscribing because I'd go months without listening to it. These days I listen to all my music while I'm on my laptop. So, I use Youtube Premium.

I've hear ya, friend. I can't do without Spotify in the car even though I only listed to it in the Mini. It's a treat. I have CDs in t'other one.

 

[Herwald]

Fuck. I shouldn't have visited this thread. It's too depressing because this is all stuff that my wife would talk to me about because she was still in high school when most of this stuff was popular. I don't remember a lot of it because I was in my late thirties working & raising three kids at the time. Hell, I can't even recall what I was listening to at the time but it wasn't this stuff. But she introduced me to her favorite stuff like Blink 182 & Weezer. And it all reminds me of her. It makes me realize even more how unfair it is that she's gone. I should've gone long before her. But somehow I'm still here & it sucks.

But whatever. I didn't come here to hijack or derail the thread with my misfortune. I was just taken off guard, that's all.

Even as a stranger, I feel for you and want to say something uplifting, but it's so personal, it's hard to comment on. For whatever it's worth - you wouldn't feel how you feel if it hadn't been a meaningful experience, so it's not wrong to feel bad. But you should dignify your past for the life affirming experience that it was by learning from it and enjoying your future. Again, though, totally not my place to comment. All power to you, dude.

I think part of the problem is though that post millennium you didnt really have as firm "cultural movements", with the rise of the net culture tended to facture more and you'd have certain kinds of music, fashion, etc exist in their own bubbles for longer rather than really massive shifts every few years. So maybe indiivdual things might have nostalgia you can't really get a more generic "00's nostalgia" the way you could for the 50's 60's, 70's, 80's, etc.

Good point. In terms of mainstream, a lot of things felt like they began morphing into a grey mush at that time. But, strangely, there's also no real "style" anymore in any medium. In art, for example, you can draw however you want and - modern or super old school - you'll now find an audience for it. So the culture kind of fragmented into tiny little tribes that you almost have to go find yourself, instead of that thing looking for you, advertising to you.

The good stuff was more sporadic.

Music was shit barring the indie revival that really didn't get much airplay, the post punk+garage rock revival, and a lot of the melodic death and doom metal bands maturing to create metal outside of using death vocals. Cookie cutter pop music started becoming overwhelming at the end of the 90's and continued on in this era, hip/hop rap continued the decline from the late 90's as well. Country music continued to go full on pop, rock was played less on the radio, etc. Nu Metal also continued on from that late 90's start. A lot of cheese.

Videogames, started off with the N64/Game Boy Color/PS1/Saturn...um Dreamcast era, then came the Gamecube/Game Boy Advance/PS2/X-Box era. It was a pretty solid era. Videogames were one of the things that weren't bad in this era.

TV, well aside from CBS going to shit, MTV officially dying off, and the whole reality show explosion there was a bunch of good shows. Adult Swim came into being, more mature cable shows that took more risks started to pop up more, Fox was still a good network. We saw more shows in general that had serialized plots and less comedies that were laugh tracked which lead into a renaissance of sorts that came later, but it started becoming more of a thing in this era. The science and history based channels still showed science and history based shows. Mixed bag as this era started to lead towards so many channels dying and reality tv becoming so prevalent but other areas of tv started to get better.

Movies were a pretty mixed bag too. Remakes of Japanese horror movies then remakes in general started to trend. Lower budget or profile horror movies could be really damn good though and more risks were taken there. Marvel movies started up (post-Blade of course). There was a lot of cheesy stuff that echoed the music from this era (continuing on from the late 90's). the Harry Potter movies started up. The cheese started to wear off closer to the mid 2000's.

Fashion was terrible. I never really changed what I wore or my hair thankfully, but the whole frosted tips, baggy as hell clothes, etc. trend is just hilarious to look back at. It's like white trash and guido culture merged.

MMA was still in its' dark era at the beginning of the decade but got better over time and TUF came along in the mid-2000's and saw the sport get a massive popularity boost. Pride had the start of its' best years in this era as well and contained most of them save for its' very end.

Sports. The NBA started its' downward turn as defense became less and less of a thing but was still watchable for most. The NFL was good and we got to see the beginning of Brady, Brees, and Peyton's long and storied careers. The MLB was fine but you could see where money dominated, we got to see the Red Sox and White Sox finally get championships after close to 100 years without one. The NHL was fine outside of the lockout year.

Pro wrestling lost me in this era. Only sporadically watched it then quit as John Cena and Randy Orton started to become a thing (can't recall the years, it went from Stone Cold/The Rock/Mankind/HHH/The Undertaker to Brock/Angle/Guerrerro/Benoit/Mysterio and I think Cena and Orton started to show up somewhere in that era).

The internet was still a bit in wild west territory, it had shittier web design, worse speeds, and other negative aspects that come with weaker technology but otherwise was more interesting than it is now in a lot of respects and people weren't zombies as much.

Outside of the media we had the September 11th attacks and wars and politics really started to go to shit and become more fractured, plus we had the Patriot act, etc. This was what makes looking back to the early to mid 2000's so damn depressing in my opinion. This was the start of so much bs that still continues 20+ years later.

The end of the 90's and early 2000's sort of blended together. It wasn't until like 2003 that things started to differentiate.

Excellent read, man, thanks. I'm not from the U.S., so this adds perspective.

BLINK 182!!!!

I thought the early 2000's was a pretty awesome time

We had great technology for entertainment purposes (gaming, movies, music, etc....)

And computers were still pretty much for nerds and geeks and serious people only

Technology hadn't infiltrated on the minutiae of our lives yet

Then that jerk Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and slowly but surely douchebags took over the internet

Yeah, even in my little journey, I couldn't help but identify the insurgence of smart phones as the point where a lot of shit went to shit.

 

[ShinkanPo]

Im nostalgic to be 15 years younger

My dick is harder 15 years ago I am an awkward social reject 23 year old virgin in 2005.

But atleast I can masturbate 5 times a day

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Good point. In terms of mainstream, a lot of things felt like they began morphing into a grey mush at that time. But, strangely, there's also no real "style" anymore in any medium. In art, for example, you can draw however you want and - modern or super old school - you'll now find an audience for it. So the culture kind of fragmented into tiny little tribes that you almost have to go find yourself, instead of that thing looking for you, advertising to you.

Part of that I spose might be I'm older, either being young during a movement or having it talked up in retrospect probably makes it seem more all encompassing that it really was but even with that in mind I still think we've seen a shift.

The difference I'd say is I'd say music and TV tended to be more limited in terms of "slots" and more universal as a result, everyone was more likely to watch/listen to the same thing than they are in the age of the net when you can stream what you want and there is masses of space to for different subcultures to have their own coverage.

I think it stands out for example that one thing that hasnt turned into "mush" it mainstream blockbuster cinema, in retrospect when people think of the 2010's they will for example obviously think of the MCU because there is still more universality to such content, only a small amount of it is made.

 

[Hollywood Jack]

not sure if this counts its like 2009 but i miss the days when ppl still could use the word in movies

Good one, although let me just embed one that doesn't look like it was filmed with a potato.

 

[method115]

not sure if this counts its like 2009 but i miss the days when ppl still could use the word in movies

The original is so much better than the sequels. What a great scene.

 

[SoberAwakening]

Have this on my N64 still and now on my arcade cabinet. Was playing this all night on Saturday!

 

[John Mabrey]

The original is so much better than the sequels. What a great scene.

Good one, although let me just embed one that doesn't look like it was filmed with a potato.

lol this is a funny read

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...dley-cooper-mike-tyson-ed-helms-a8952486.html

 

[boingyman]

Early to mid 2000s was some of the best times of my life. Going to college and a lot of partying. Moved to California for my internship and started my career. It was good times.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

Girl power!!!

 

[GolovKing]

I was in middle school during the early to mid 2000s. It was a pretty good period of time for entertainment. I thought that period was the best 5 years of rap and r&b, better than the 90s. There was some good pop/rock stuff too and I remember there being a lot of memorable shows on tv. On MTV you had stuff like real word, road rules, true life, wade Robson project, making the band, all the jackass and jackass spinoff stuff with bam margera and the wild boys.

Then on VH1 you had the surreal life, the I love the 70s 80s and 90s programs, Behind the music, and also a bunch of really good music countdown/best of shows.

Also good cartoons, funny shows on comedy central, bet was good. An underrated era in entertainment and I'm not even getting into movies

 

[John Mabrey]

I was in middle school during the early to mid 2000s. It was a pretty good period of time for entertainment. I thought that period was the best 5 years of rap and r&b, better than the 90s. There was some good pop/rock stuff too and I remember there being a lot of memorable shows on tv. On MTV you had stuff like real word, road rules, true life, wade Robson project, making the band, all the jackass and jackass spinoff stuff with bam margera and the wild boys.

Then on VH1 you had the surreal life, the I love the 70s 80s and 90s programs, Behind the music, and also a bunch of really good music countdown/best of shows.

Also good cartoons, funny shows on comedy central, bet was good. An underrated era in entertainment and I'm not even getting into movies

I liked the vh1 I love the 80s and 90s shows, also they had one on one hit wonders which was good as well

 

[GolovKing]

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

The original is so much better than the sequels. What a great scene.

That scene might have honestly been the moment in the theatre that I realized we were dealing with an instant classic here. The proceeding car scene and driving into Vegas solidified it

 

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[GolovKing]

I liked the vh1 I love the 80s and 90s shows, also they had one on one hit wonders which was good as well

All those countdown shows were pretty cool. I remember they had the greatest rap songs of all time, greatest rock songs, best songs of the 80s, 90s, most shocking moments in music. Remember they used to have these guys doing commentary on every show. RIP Patrice Oneal

 

[raty tat tat]

When nostalgia creeps up, I usually try to find something completely new to disappear in. But, recently, I felt like I was just getting hammered by a relentless wave of early-to-mid 2000s nostalgia. So I buckled and went back to a lot of old stuff - this be everything from music, video games, movies, old sports broadcasts to real life locations - and I feel like I've kind of ruined a few cozy memories by revisiting the source (will say: TV show "The Shield" was one thing that held up and impressed me even more now).

So it's kind of a weird feeling where the current day seems lacking, but, ultimately, all I found at the end of that nostalgia rainbow of "good old days" was sense of waste, mistakes and regret. Not to be a downer, though, maybe a wrong approach on my part or just personal issues to hash out.

But that made think of how there's still this 80s craze in pop culture, 90s iconic stuff seems to slowly pop up here and there as well, but is anyone actually nostalgic for 2000s? If so, what are you nostalgic about from that time?

I miss 2000 to 2009 some of the best years of
my life.

Was living on my own
the internet was getting faster
Still good things on TV
Video Stores were still around and what you couldn't find at the V.S. you get off the net
Consumer electronics were at their best
Cell phones were basic non of the smart phone
s**t.

A perfect area as far as I'm concerned.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Even as a stranger, I feel for you and want to say something uplifting, but it's so personal, it's hard to comment on. For whatever it's worth - you wouldn't feel how you feel if it hadn't been a meaningful experience, so it's not wrong to feel bad. But you should dignify your past for the life affirming experience that it was by learning from it and enjoying your future. Again, though, totally not my place to comment. All power to you, dude.

Thanks, man. I'm trying to get to that place but first I've got to get through the grieving process. So, I've got a long journey ahead of me yet. Peace.

 

[GolovKing]

 

[GolovKing]