I hated when this was on store shelves in 2005:

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Honestly, this was the year that music started to become truly rotten, in my opinion, before bottoming out completely in 2006.  It feels like popular music around the summer of this year started to become less rhythmically complex, as was the case in the first half of the 2000s, and instead topped the charts for being needlessly crass and childish.  Hip hop was is the primary avenue of this, due to the rise of abominable dirty south songs like Laffy Taffy and Grind with Me, but this decline definitely reared its ugly head in the pop world as well, as represented by ridiculous tracks such as Don't Cha, Hollaback Girl, and My Humps being the definitive hits of the year.  I distinctly remembered that I stopped following the Now albums after volume 19 (summer, 2005), and pretty much gave up on popular music completely by the start of 2006.  When Lady Gaga came out towards the end of 2008, it was a serious breath of fresh air to finally hear something of musical substance again and which wasn't just raunchy trash.

The rock music released this year was much more bearable than the pop and hip hop topping the charts, but for the most part, it still paled in comparison to what came out earlier in the decade.  There were a few really good songs, like System of a Down's B.Y.O.B. and Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day, but the fast-paced fun of blink-182 and Sum 41 was now being replaced by so-so acts like Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects.

Honestly, this was the year that music started to become truly rotten, in my opinion, before bottoming out completely in 2006.  It feels like popular music around the summer of this year started to become less rhythmically complex, as was the case in the first half of the 2000s, and instead topped the charts for being needlessly crass and childish.  Hip hop was is the primary avenue of this, due to the rise of abominable dirty south songs like Laffy Taffy and Grind with Me, but this decline definitely reared its ugly head in the pop world as well, as represented by ridiculous tracks such as Don't Cha, Hollaback Girl, and My Humps being the definitive hits of the year.  I distinctly remembered that I stopped following the Now albums after volume 19 (summer, 2005), and pretty much gave up on popular music completely by the start of 2006.  When Lady Gaga came out towards the end of 2008, it was a serious breath of fresh air to finally hear something of musical substance again and which wasn't just raunchy trash.

The rock music released this year was much more bearable than the pop and hip hop topping the charts, but for the most part, it still paled in comparison to what came out earlier in the decade.  There were a few really good songs, like System of a Down's B.Y.O.B. and Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day, but the fast-paced fun of blink-182 and Sum 41 was now being replaced by so-so acts like Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects.
I think "My Humps" was annoying as are most "Black Eyed Peas" songs.. "Don't Cha" I don't think has aged/dated well. "Hollaback Girl" wasn't that bad.

Honestly, this was the year that music started to become truly rotten, in my opinion, before bottoming out completely in 2006.  It feels like popular music around the summer of this year started to become less rhythmically complex, as was the case in the first half of the 2000s, and instead topped the charts for being needlessly crass and childish.  Hip hop was is the primary avenue of this, due to the rise of abominable dirty south songs like Laffy Taffy and Grind with Me, but this decline definitely reared its ugly head in the pop world as well, as represented by ridiculous tracks such as Don't Cha, Hollaback Girl, and My Humps being the definitive hits of the year.  I distinctly remembered that I stopped following the Now albums after volume 19 (summer, 2005), and pretty much gave up on popular music completely by the start of 2006.  When Lady Gaga came out towards the end of 2008, it was a serious breath of fresh air to finally hear something of musical substance again and which wasn't just raunchy trash.

The rock music released this year was much more bearable than the pop and hip hop topping the charts, but for the most part, it still paled in comparison to what came out earlier in the decade.  There were a few really good songs, like System of a Down's B.Y.O.B. and Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day, but the fast-paced fun of blink-182 and Sum 41 was now being replaced by so-so acts like Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects.


The bold part really goes to show how these discussions are largely a waste of time, and are incredibly subjective and based on one's own personal taste. I've never heard anyone describe Lady Gaga as being a breath of fresh air, of all things, and I absolutely despise her music, and find herself as a person to be desperate and annoying. Katy Perry is pretty bad too - but I just hate how teeny-bop her music is. Really girly and grinding.

Conversely, there's a lot of stuff from 2005 that I like. It's the year of Akon's 'Lonely', which I liked at the time and still like now, and Rihanna's Pon De Replay, and Daniel Power's Had a Bad Day.

I remember hearing this song on the radio and I found it really depressing but strangely appealing. I think it speaks to me as a person because every day is a bad day LOL.

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Simple Plan - Shut Up
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Simple Plan - Untitled
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Simple Plan - Crazy
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Ashanti - Don't Let Them
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