I keep coming back to 2000s a lot for music. That decade was certainly mixed bag as a whole, but the technological improvement, the way that we consume music, and the consequence of that really fascinated me. And I think the late 2000s from 2007 to 2009 were probably the most pivotal of them all. The late 2000s really shaped a lot of what culture, tech, and especially media would be for the better...but mostly for the worst. Social media took shape into the beast that we can't control with the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and notably YouTube. On the movie side, we saw big blockbusters being released and successful, especially the dumb action one like Transformers before the WGA strikes effectively put into the question of the cinema business. Meanwhile, this was the time of uncertainty and after the housing crisis — and the subsequent financial crisis — really brought the heel of the economy in the west with certain senator from Chicago trying to campaigned with the slogan "HO...
I have to be blunt here, this chart sucks ass. Pop music I thought would've bounce back from the slump of last year. But not only is we see even more slump, we see more and more of discourses—sometimes bullshit but sometimes justified—plaguing the popular music landscape. Added with the fact that old music still reigned supreme—I had to use songs at below top 50 that's how stagnant the chart is right now. And also these crop of songs are just awful like the good stuff came from last season. The signs were really there when "Rein Me In" and "Choosin Texas" broke their countries' respective record of longest stay at #1 this week. Which is a damn shame because pop music outside of the mainstream is having their best year yet this decade. Lots of cool releases from artists like Underscores, Slayyyter, Rebecca Black, Carly Rae Jepsen, and newcomers like Hemlocke Springs. You know the music industry if y'all don't want people to think there's no g...