Nostalgia early 2000s12/10/2023 Not even one year later, the 9/11 terror attacks happened, and nothing was the same since. Speaking of Clinton, many political analysts argue that the Sexgate scandal affected the 2000 presidential election which - in case you don’t remember - was decided by Floridians and the Supreme Court in that order. And let's not forget the Bill Clinton impersonator who interrupted the listening experience to advertise a website call. Jackson” (one of the decade's few great outputs) you'd better have three hours to spare, because unless you wanted to shell out $20 for the record at the Virgin Megastore, you’d have to wait that long just for a corrupt mp3 of the song to download on Kazaa. The 2000s were a time when if you wanted to listen to OutKast’s “Ms. Speaking of the internet, we were at the tail-end of the dot-com bubble, and once we recovered, we were still making sure nobody in our homes was using a landline, because if they were, we wouldn’t be able to use AllTheWeb, Lycos, Dogpile, Yahoo! and Google simultaneously. While the world didn't come to an end, good music did -mostly. We are, of course, referring to Y2K, which started because internet technology experts thought computers would interpret the year 2000 as 1900. The entire decade, and by extension millennium, started with a wave of hysteria that cost the United States $100 billion. The first defining moment of ’00s nostalgia in the 2020s was easily the reunion of flagship emo/pop-punk band My Chemical Romance, and with 9 years, 11 months (not a very fortunate sequence of numbers when discussing the ’00s) remaining of the decade, it merits reflection on why the ’00s completely sucked, and why we can’t let ’00s nostalgia take such form. There’s some apparent phenomenon wherein every generation waxes nostalgic over the generation that preceded it two decades prior, and as this natural succession has it, we are in a new wave of ’00s nostalgia. In the 2010s, ’90s nostalgia became so big that Nickelodeon started a programming block titled NickRewind, which was initially dubbed “The ’90s Are All That.” In the 2000s, we had a post-punk revival. In the 1980s, we had Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69.” In the 1990s, we had That ’ 70s Show.
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