It seems in the early 2000s people are up the shock tactics by Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and others with the good girl gone bad act overdone. There was an obsession with shock and it was seen as "edgy".

I notice the opposite reaction to Miley Cyrus when she tried it. People are really backlashing against it and shock culture in general which is a good thing. There is only so far you can take things.

I noticed movies are also getting less based on shock value and to a lesser extent shows.

Experimenting with new styles is fine, but you have to think who you want as your audience and will you keep your old fans? They do it because when they first started out, they were just kids and had the "innocent girl" reputation. They think by being racy tarts on stage they're rebelling against that old image and letting the world know they're now women.  ::) The thing is, it's possible to do so and still have class. Britney and Christina never took it to the level of Miley Cyrus. Rihanna did that too with her performances, the whole Good Girl Gone Bad album came out, but she can do "sexy" on stage in a non sleazy way. She's one of the few pop artists who I think should experiment with rock, I think she has the voice for it. Now it's all about the weird with Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, overdone to the point of expected.

Madonna did it during the 1980's.

Experimenting with new styles is fine, but you have to think who you want as your audience and will you keep your old fans? They do it because when they first started out, they were just kids and had the "innocent girl" reputation. They think by being racy tarts on stage they're rebelling against that old image and letting the world know they're now women.  ::) The thing is, it's possible to do so and still have class. Britney and Christina never took it to the level of Miley Cyrus. Rihanna did that too with her performances, the whole Good Girl Gone Bad album came out, but she can do "sexy" on stage in a non sleazy way. She's one of the few pop artists who I think should experiment with rock, I think she has the voice for it. Now it's all about the weird with Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, overdone to the point of expected.


Miley went as far as she did so she could outdo anything the previous singers did when they had their "good girl gone bad act". In other words, she wanted to outdo Britney and Christina in the early 2000s. What's strange is people don't like shock tactics as much as they did but people think that it will get them good ratings in these days.
This says it all:

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/03/miley-cyrus-justin-bieber-plunging-popularity/

It's not the 00s anymore and people need to get with the program
Back in 2004 people would have been all over it but now?

Well we have yet to see Miley Cyrus emerging from a limo with no underwear and her legs splayed out like she was undergoing a gyno exam.  So you gotta give her credit for not going that route.  :-X

Meanwhile, Britney, Paris, Lindsay, and even Anne Hathaway  :-* have used that gambit to get headlines.  ::)

Miley went as far as she did so she could outdo anything the previous singers did when they had their "good girl gone bad act". In other words, she wanted to outdo Britney and Christina in the early 2000s. What's strange is people don't like shock tactics as much as they did but people think that it will get them good ratings in these days.


shock tactics can only go so far till people start getting bored with their new ideas such as The Kardashians, Miley Cyrus and Lindsey Lohan.

Absolutely. In our modern PC world, shock value in general isn't really big anymore like it was in the 90s and 00s. The 90s in particular was filled with moral backlash towards Mortal Kombat and Marilyn Manson. The 90s was a backlash to the evangelist world of the 80s. The early-mid 00s was definitely the edgiest time period. Shock humor was very popular with Jackass, South Park, Family Guy, Drawn Together, Happy Tree Friends. All of those shock sites and old Flash animations were always super dark and vulgar. By the early 2010s though, there was a backlash against shock for the sake of shock, and that's when shows that had little to no offensive content like My Little Pony got popular. Even having a mean-spirited character became grounds for criticism in the 2010s, when in the 2000s, it was just the nature of things, and people thought mean-spiritedness = funny. That's the mindset Family Guy was born from, and it makes more sense in context why modern audiences can't relate to it. Family Guy came out when Jackass, nu-metal, and Attitude Era wrestling was popular. Did I not mention the early 00s were edgy as heck?
It's kinda relieving this attitude has died off. Even modern adult cartoons like Rick and Morty and Big Mouth have some dark humor but no racial stereotyping or anything like that. Rick and Morty is more absurd whilst Big Mouth is more raunchy than anything. 2000s shows were filled with racist jokes, vomit, swearing, nudity, and anything else remotely classed as edgy. It wasn't always BAD per say, but very often poorly executed just for shock. You did get some shows like Brickleberry and Mr Pickles in the early-mid 10s that had shock humor, but they typically flopped and were never as popular as other types of shows like they were in the 00s.
The Attitude Era of WWE too was fueled by shock tactics. And of course, all the shock sites of the 00s culminating in 2 Girls 1 Cup, plus all the torture porns like Saw and Hostel.
I know some of you are talking about celebrities and to be honest I don't care much for that sort of stuff but I bet it did factor in the popularity of shock value in the 00s. We do have some shock value in the 2010s like Filthy Frank but that's more alternative culture. If you actually watch the movies and shows from the 2010s it's mainly more PC and lighthearted. Disney's current monopoly on mainstream cinema these days certainly doesn't help.