Over a decade later, why aren't the 2000s romanticized like the 90s were?

[Cheese McNair]

Sounds like you are discounting how active the streets were in the 90s before all the technology. Everything you said makes it appear you are kind of a homebody? Of course I don't know your lifestyle and could be missing the mark.

The nightclub scene in the 90s was something people still talk about and mixing that with entertainment as a whole , it was a crazy era to come up in from sports , music, movies,

I still went out in my 20s(even did the teen clubs in the late 00s— when I was a teen), and I enjoyed myself but I can’t compare it to the 90s because I wasn’t there. I’m only comparing what I can logically compare. Even then, I was at the crib(or somebody else’s crib) more than I was at clubs.

As a kid after school on a rainy day, I would watch Hey Arnold then be salty because they only played one episode. If I was a kid now, I could watch as many as I want

 

[LunaticVillage415]

ya'll must have been some lames low key, because everybody i know thought the 90s were corny and dated during the early 2000s.
Later on we started feeling nostalgic for it

The mistake people make is looking at the 90's as one long uniform era when it was not. Everything that was popular in 1999 didn't become played out on January 1, 2000. Jay Z was the most relevant rapper back then. So, yes, nikkas was still listening to Reasonable Doubt like it just came out during Jay Z reign in the early 2000's. nikkas was still listening to Pac too. I remember Nas it Was Written being more popular in the early 2000's than Illmatic. If anything, the early 90's were looked at as played out. Yet, 96' didn't seem like ancient history in 2000. But 91' definitely felt like ancient history in 2000.

By 2000, you would be looked at as a weirdo if you still listened to Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Main Source or Public Enemy. Or you would be clowned mercilessly if you wore anything undeniably early 90's related like Cross Colors because vintage clothing was nonexistent especially in urban fashion back then unlike today. Nobody was looking like Kid 'N Play back then in the early 2000's. Yet nikkas still revered shows like the Fresh Prince and a Different World and even admitted the fashion on those shows was fresh for the time they were released. Ironically, a lot of the name brands that were popping in the urban world in the early 90's were still popping in the early 2000's (i.e. Pelle Pelle, Girbaud, Avirex, Coogi, Phat Farm, Timberland), it's just the styles changed, and not even that much because baggy clothes were popping since the early 90's.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

2000s was also the golden age of message boards

R.I.P. Duel Monsters Hangout

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Coming from someone who grew up partially in the 2000’s:

2000 - Fun
2001 - FUN ASF/In retrospect, fun until 9/11
2002 - Fun
2003 - Fun
2004 - Fun until middle school in the fall
2005 - FUN ASF/Rebound from 2004
2006 - Fun
2007 - FUN ASF/One of the best summers
2008 - So So
2009 - Meh to Straight Trash

 

[Zime]

Nah man I’m a 2000s kid so 2000s was better for me.

 

[Turbulent]

I think too much of the 2000s on is documented in video format and archived online (easy to access) so there is not as much opportunity for revisionist history

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Pretty much this. 00s nostalgia is picking up steam. I was on Apple Music lookin at the various Apple Music playlist from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 and it was like going down memory lane. Had me thinking about middle school crushes and stuff. But once you get to 2009, the nostalgia and romanticism starts to fade, since I was adult aged, and I remember everything from 2009 through the lens of adult realism rather then childlike romanticism ala my memories of the early 00s and the 90s. The early 00s just feel like an extension of the 90s to me. As recent as 2009 feels, 2000-2004 actually feels like a long ass time ago. 2001 really does feels like 20yrs ago.



Here me out tho....but... rappers who were once considered “New School/New Millennium/Ringtone Rappers”like Wayne, 50, Tip, Jeezy, Em, Nelly, etc <——Nowadays those artist feel closer to being contemporaries and peers of 90s Golden Era rappers like WuTang, Pac, Biggie, Nas, Cube, Dre, Snoop, etc, even though back in the 00s we’d NEVER associate those “new school” 00s artists with those sacred 90s artists. That’s how long ago 2000-2004 was.

Last year, I just made early 00’s, mid 00’s, and late 00’s playlists. All them joints take me down memory lane, most especially mid 00’s (middle school) and late 00’s (high school)

 

[Jaguar93]

R y’all high
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 1-3
Ps2,Xbox,GameCube,ps3,360
Limewire and other software
Fl studios lol
Prime 50
MySpace & Facebook
Nolan’s Batman
American Pie series
Final destination series
Super bad
Mcu
Wayne run
I can go on lol

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Nah I can see folk romanticizing pre-Trump 2010s. I'm already nostalgic for 2015

I def think kids who grew up on J. Cole, Kendrick, Drake, Tyler n nem, Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift, Donald Glover, Marvel movies, Game of Thrones, Regular Show will be nostalgic for the 2010s. Those years will be seen as the calm before the storm

Yeah basically 2010 to the Summer of 2016

A LOT of Gen Z kids rave about the Summer of 2016 being basically their Summer of ‘99 or Summer of ‘05 of sorts. And I can honestly see that because I can’t front, the Summer of ‘16 was actually pretty lit plus 2016 was the year I was finally admitted into an HBCU

 

[SwizzLake]

Coming from someone who grew up partially in the 2000’s:

2000 - Fun
2001 - Fun/In retrospect, fun until 9/11
2002 - Fun
2003 - Fun
2004 - Fun until middle school in the fall
2005 - FUN ASF/Rebound from 2004
2006 - Fun
2007 - FUN ASF/One of the best summers
2008 - So So
2009 - Meh to Straight Trash

2009 was my best year in the 2000's for me. I'll never forget summer of 2009.

 

[RAX 010]

The 2000 signaled the dawn of the new world order the end of privacy acceptence of homosexuality ...shall I go on?

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I'm already seeing people on social media start to reference and go back to 00s fashion, kids broadly refer to a mishmash of styles from the entire decade as the "y2k aesthetic" and you're starting to see musicians in their 20s such as Normani or Saweetie reference music that they grew up with in the 2000s in their own music.

It's happening, we're just at the beginning of it. I do have a feeling it won't be as prevalent as other nostalgia waves however and not because there's nothing to be nostalgic over but because we're more critical of the past than we used to be. The moment something from the 2000s starts becoming popular again there are going to be think pieces on how problematic that thing was at the time and people will try and cancel it.

Then you got a small but growing number of artists who are incorporating and/or remixing 2000’s shyt in their music too, most notably Jacquees and TK Kravitz.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

I hate the 90s and everyone looks like they are from that era or early 20s on how women dress now. All the clothes fit and not oversized. I was 8 back in 98 but I don’t miss it but now I gotta live through its second installment

 

[Jermio]

2000s sucked. Whole country changed after 9/11.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

tbh if you're over 35 you probably shouldn't be discussing this because you're likely out of touch to what's cool with the youth anyways

This.