It seems like 2004 had a lot of bad music especially when you compare it to 2003 and even 2005. It was sort of a bland year for music full of senseless ringtone rap. Although you did have some good stuff come out by Green Day, Mase, and Nelly. It seems like the bad stuff outweighed the good though.

Not at all. In fact it's one of the best years for music, not just of that decade but of all time. You had Usher's Confessions album, Kayne West's debut album, Black Eyed Peas debut, artists like Chingy and J-Kwon, Nina Skye, Pitbull's debut, reaggaetons like Daddy Yankee (Gasolina), pop-punk, Ciara's debut in the fall, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. album, the list goes on and on.

Now 2006, that was a bad year for music.

My thoughts:

Not just "No," but, "H3LL no!!"

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Not at all. In fact it's one of the best years for music, not just of that decade but of all time. You had Usher's Confessions album, Kayne West's debut album, Black Eyed Peas debut, artists like Chingy and J-Kwon, Nina Skye, Pitbull's debut, reaggaetons like Daddy Yankee (Gasolina), pop-punk, Ciara's debut in the fall, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. album, the list goes on and on.

Now 2006, that was a bad year for music.


2006 wasn't bad, you had Timberlake return, Nelly Furtado/Timberland's "Promiscuous", continuation of Chris Brown and Rihanna's teen phase, Beyonce still made good music, and Ne-yo was releasing hit after hit.

2004, other than Mario & Usher, I struggle to find music I enjoy from that period.

2006 wasn't bad, you had Timberlake return, Nelly Furtado/Timberland's "Promiscuous", continuation of Chris Brown and Rihanna's teen phase, Beyonce still made good music, and Ne-yo was releasing hit after hit.

2004, other than Mario & Usher, I struggle to find music I enjoy from that period.


Other than JT, Nelly Furtado, a few hip-hop artists that was about it. Compared to the other 2000's years it seemed to pale in comparison. I remember my playlist from that year having only about 15 songs, and even the first almost half were 2005 holdovers, and the other half includes Fergies's "London Bridge" and Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind".

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Other than JT, Nelly Furtado, a few hip-hop artists that was about it. Compared to the other 2000's years it seemed to pale in comparison. I remember my playlist from that year having only about 15 songs, and even the first almost half were 2005 holdovers, and the other half includes Fergies's "London Bridge" and Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind".


2006 pales in comparison to 2000-2003ish

But was certainly better musically than 2004-2005 & 2008-2009.

2004-2005 lacked hits and was a huge transition while 2008-2009 was too electropop & autotune heavy.

2006 pales in comparison to 2000-2003ish

But was certainly better musically than 2004-2005 & 2008-2009.

2004-2005 lacked hits and was a huge transition while 2008-2009 was too electropop & autotune heavy.


I agree about 2000-2003 but I'll again have to disagree about 2004-2005 and 2008-2009 (especially 2008). It just depends on our tastes. I liked the McBling rap, crunk, and R&B which was mostly what I was to in 2004/05, plus some rock, some emo, and dance pop like Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. album and The Gorillaz. With 2006, aside from the JT and Nelly Furtado electropop, it was mostly snap like Akon or adult contemporary like James Blunt (I especially remember 2006 for hearing "You're Beautiful" about 50 million times). 2007 was an improvement as it had better snap hits like T-Pain's "Buy U a Drink" and Lloyds "Get It Shawty", and also had Timberland's "The Way I Are" with its harder electro sound.

2001 was my second least favorite as it seemed to pale in comparison to 2000. I just remember it for Missy Elliott, Janet Jackson, Ja Rule, MJB, and a few others.

I agree about 2000-2003 but I'll again have to disagree about 2004-2005 and 2008-2009 (especially 2008). It just depends on our tastes. I liked the McBling rap, crunk, and R&B which was mostly what I was to in 2004/05, plus some rock, some emo, and dance pop like Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. album and The Gorillaz. With 2006, aside from the JT and Nelly Furtado electropop, it was mostly snap like Akon or adult contemporary like James Blunt (I especially remember 2006 for hearing "You're Beautiful" about 50 million times). 2007 was an improvement as it had better snap hits like T-Pain's "Buy U a Drink" and Lloyds "Get It Shawty", and also had Timberland's "The Way I Are" with its harder electro sound.

2001 was my second least favorite as it seemed to pale in comparison to 2000. I just remember it for Missy Elliott, Janet Jackson, Ja Rule, MJB, and a few others.


2005 I'll give you, since the divide between 2005, 2006 and 2007 is whether you like pre futuristic pop of 2005, futuristic pop of 2006 or precursor to autotune's 2007 or not.

But 2004? that was one of the worse years of the decade when it comes to music, other than Usher pop & R&B were crap. 2003 was already a downtick.

2005 is where quality got better and IMO peaked in 2006.

Either way 2000's decade to me was a disappointment musically, ESPECIALLY when 2000 to me is better than most 90's years and made me think music would be like that.

2000 was a year where every single one of the main genres(rock, hip-hop, Pop, R&B, Gospel, Country) dominated AND sub-genres.(Numetal, Teen/Bubblegum/Kids Pop, R&B pop, Latin pop, Alt Rock, Punk etc)

What more could someone ask for.

First half of 2001 was the closest to 2000, then 2nd half of 2001 & first half of 2002 was the same but with a more urban feel.

Then 2nd half of 2002 was either Alt Rock or Hip Hop or Urban pop which was meh to me because most of my favorite music are sub genres such as Teen pop, it was good but not as good.

The whole decade after 2002 was one or 2 genres being heavy and people following trends instead of setting their own trends and doing musical genres they knew they could innovate just like artist did in late 90's-early 2000's. Thus less hits and great albums.

Let's not forget late 2000's was the end of Rock music being popular which it still isn't to this day.

And I don't blame technology, because it was indeed technology that helped years like 1997-2000 be such an improvement and boom in music, as artists & producers used it along with their musical talent to further enhance the music, such as a Timbaland, Neptunes or Max Martin.

The 2000's is when people who had no business making music started using that technology.

Pop music almost got killed in the 2000's as well when everyone was trying to be urban or punk to the point that it got oversaturated & exposed, it was phony & it reflected in the music.