It's a year that feels like yesterday to most people despite being 5 years ago so let's have a look back at 2011. I turned 16 that year and was in year 10. I had a lot of life changing experiences in that year such as visiting a high-security prison for a legal studies excursion  and breaking a gaming world record, plus getting my first job.

I was listening to some songs from 2011 such as "Party Rock Anthem" and "Last Friday Night" and they definitely didn't seem like they represented the music of today. We still have electropop, but it's more dark and downbeat
Pop punk also had a mini revival with Simple Plan's "Jet Lag" and "Summer Paradise" and We The King's "Check Yes Juliet"

Plus, superhero films weren't nearly as ubitiquous as they are today. It could be argued that we were still in the cultural 00s for movies with the final Harry Potter movie and no Hunger games.
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It was the first year that smartphones were everywhere but it seemed other phones were still equally as popular and you wouldn't have stood out if you had a Blackberry or a Sony Ericsson/Motorola flip phone

Video game wise, we were still well and truly in the 7th generation of gaming.


I was wondering what all you guys think. Does 2011 feel dated to you? Are you nostalgic already over this year?

2011 does feel a little bit dated now, but I wouldn't necessarily consider it too be "old". As for myself, I turned 12 that year and was in my final year of Primary (or elementary) school.

Admittedly, I never liked the Top-40 singles back then (and I still don't like them). I hated "Party Rock Anthem" with a passion and I thought LMFAO's lead singer had ridiculous looking hair. Instead of listening to the Top-40 charts, I listened to "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora" by Linkin Park, my two favourite childhood albums.  8)

I was working most of the year. At the end of the year I started my freshman year of university, and have memories that will last me a lifetime.

It was the height of the 7th generation of gaming. After work, I'd come home everyday and voice chat online with my friends through Xbox Live, it was very relaxing. The winter weekends, we'd go to Tim Hortons or local coffee shops and just play our DSs and PSPs for the entire morning. Steam replaced MSN as my chat app. Played tons of Starcraft 2 and Minecraft.

I still lived downtown until I went off to university. With a lot of  spending money in hand, I got to eat at a lot of restaurants, try out new cuisines, and discover a lot about Toronto. On the spring and summer weekends, I'd go bike riding with my friends at the parks. 

It felt like a simpler time. I don't know if that's nostalgia.  It felt like my workload was a lot less and my friends weren't always so busy either. Pop culturally though, it wasn't that long ago. I loved dubstep, electropop and all the great dance music. It was fun to dance to at university parties.

I was working most of the year. At the end of the year I started my freshman year of university, and have memories that will last me a lifetime.

It was the height of the 7th generation of gaming. After work, I'd come home everyday and voice chat online with my friends through Xbox Live, it was very relaxing. The winter weekends, we'd go to Tim Hortons or local coffee shops and just play our DSs and PSPs for the entire morning. Steam replaced MSN as my chat app. Played tons of Starcraft 2 and Minecraft.

I still lived downtown until I went off to university. With a lot of  spending money in hand, I got to eat at a lot of restaurants, try out new cuisines, and discover a lot about Toronto. On the spring and summer weekends, I'd go bike riding with my friends at the parks. 

It felt like a simpler time. I don't know if that's nostalgia.  It felt like my workload was a lot less and my friends weren't always so busy either. Pop culturally though, it wasn't that long ago. I loved dubstep, electropop and all the great dance music. It was fun to dance to at university parties.


I was working at a movie theatre and was the last time I had excellent academic grades. Good times...

Also, it seemed in 2011 we were headed toward a new era of peace despite the Syrian Civil war starting. ISIS wasn't a threat yet, Iraq war ended, Osama bin laden was killed, Trayvon Martin was still alive and BLM didn't exist, Vladimir Putin was in his 4 year break from the Presidency of Russia, Donald Trump running for president was actually a joke, mass shootings had already happened for a long time but there wasn't one happening every day and Australia didn't have the backward thinking LNP in government.

Economically, much of the world was still in recession but the global economy was starting to get out of its rut.

Anybody remember Trump suggesting he'd run for president in 2012?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/16/trump.president/

I remember starting my Sketch writing classes at UCB during this year. This would set my path for a few years down the road....

I went and saw a live taping of The Daily Show. Don't really remember seeing too many movies in the theater but Thor, Captain America, and The Hangover sequel. Saw my favorite band Motorhead live in NYC and loving the show.

Loved the games that came out like LA Noire, Mortal Kombat 9, Batman Arkham City, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, Uncharted 3, Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Overall, it was a pretty good year

Also, it seemed in 2011 we were headed toward a new era of peace despite the Syrian Civil war starting. ISIS wasn't a threat yet, Iraq war ended, Osama bin laden was killed, Trayvon Martin was still alive and BLM didn't exist, Vladimir Putin was in his 4 year break from the Presidency of Russia, Donald Trump running for president was actually a joke, mass shootings had already happened for a long time but there wasn't one happening every day and Australia didn't have the backward thinking LNP in government.

Economically, much of the world was still in recession but the global economy was starting to get out of its rut.


Yeah, a lot of dictators and evil people were disposed or dead by the end of 2011. Osama, Kim Jong Un, Mubarak, Gadaffi etc.

Anybody remember Trump suggesting he'd run for president in 2012?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/16/trump.president/


He was going to represent the fringe conspiracy theory wing of the party. Once he became a blanket racist, he was able to move into the mainstream GOP.  ::)


I remember starting my Sketch writing classes at UCB during this year. This would set my path for a few years down the road....

I went and saw a live taping of The Daily Show. Don't really remember seeing too many movies in the theater but Thor, Captain America, and The Hangover sequel. Saw my favorite band Motorhead live in NYC and loving the show.

Loved the games that came out like LA Noire, Mortal Kombat 9, Batman Arkham City, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, Uncharted 3, Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Overall, it was a pretty good year


The games that year were really fun, even if it gave birth to our modern DLC passes. I remember it was that year I got into XBLA games like Braid, Castle Crashers, that Doritos racing game, LIMBO.

2011 was my last truly happy, innocent year. We started homeschooling in August 2010, so we were able to do more things, since we had a flexible schedule because of that. We saw so many movies that year, we'd (my siblings and mom) go every week, and it was awesome. Played some great video games that year too, probably had the best releases of this decade so far for video games. I like some music from that year, and disliked some, but that goes for every year. We went to Breckenridge, Colorado that year, it was one if the best trips I've ever had. We went skiing a lot, the condos we stayed in had a Nintendo 64 with Tony Hawk games, and we did a lot of things in the city.

I'm not nostalgic for it yet, since it was recent, but it was a great year.

You must be very young if you think 2011 is dated lol. I was still in high school in 2011 but it feels pretty recent to me. I didn't like the year very much but I do have some good memories.

You must be very young if you think 2011 is dated lol. I was still in high school in 2011 but it feels pretty recent to me. I didn't like the year very much but I do have some good memories.


OP is the same age as you lol  :P

OP is the same age as you lol  :P

Hmm maybe in 1-3 years I may change my mind lol.

You must be very young if you think 2011 is dated lol. I was still in high school in 2011 but it feels pretty recent to me. I didn't like the year very much but I do have some good memories.


It's ironic you say this because I remember you always talking about how the core 2000's by your definition (2003-2007) is very classic and feels like a long time ago compared to today, when it reality it's not that long ago compared to like the 80's or 90's when it comes to how far the world has advanced and our pop culture.

2011 is definitely like yesterday to me, and it's still the best summer I've had this decade so far, due to seeing some cousins in Ohio and going to New York for the first time ever for a whole week! I agree with music being a blast throughout the year, although, not as great as 2010 but still really good though. Later in 2011 is when trap music started gaining popularity big time!

It's ironic you say this because I remember you always talking about how the core 2000's by your definition (2003-2007) is very classic and feels like a long time ago compared to today, when it reality it's not that long ago compared to like the 80's or 90's when it comes to how far the world has advanced and our pop culture.

Well of course the core 2000s are a long time ago, they're over 10 years ago for crying out loud! Big difference between 10 years and 5 years you know... And when did I ever say they were "as old" as the 90s? Lol

Well of course the core 2000s are a long time ago, they're over 10 years ago for crying out loud! Big difference between 10 years and 5 years you know... And when did I ever say they were "as old" as the 90s? Lol


To answer your question..... nada! Because I believe only 90's or earlier are capable of being called "classic" or "old school". The 2000's decade IMO is very dated, but not too old yet. The first half of the 2000's is long time ago to me, but the second half of the 2000's is plain dated to me. Any year in the 2010's, or any time since late 2008 is recent/yesterday to me!

To answer your question..... nada! Because I believe only 90's or earlier are capable of being called "classic" or "old school". The 2000's decade IMO is very dated, but not too old yet. The first half of the 2000's is long time ago to me, but the second half of the 2000's is plain dated to me. Any year in the 2010's, or any time since late 2008 is recent/yesterday to me!

Well I agree with you to an extent. The 2000s are not retro, the 90s are. The 2000s are fairly old though.

Well I agree with you to an extent. The 2000s are not retro, the 90s are. The 2000s are fairly old though.


Real talk, you know what I realized though. It seems like as you get older and grow into an adult, years become more and more recent to you, no matter how much society or the pop culture changes. We're in late 2016 now, and 2010 still feels like yesterday to me, but at the time 2010 was happening, 2004 already felt like long time ago to me, despite each of those periods being 6 years apart. People I know who've gone to their 10th or 20th high school reunions say their high school graduation still feels like a recent memory to them.

Throughout the summer when I was taking a break from the boards I took the time to look back at the chart music of the 2010s, studying the Top 40 charts of the Billboard Hot 100 from every single year week-by-week (charts, that is). I started by looking at 2014 (my favorite year of the decade!), then 2015, then 2013, then 2011, then 2012, and then I took a few months off after the summer ended and then I just finished 2010. I split up my "investigation" by seasons; the earlier school year (January-May), the summer (June-August), and the later school year (September-December). Sometimes I started with the summer, other times I started with the beginning of the year. I got to see when each hit song entered the Top 40 and when they left, as well as how long they stayed! Everyone pretty much associates a song with when it's popularity was at its peak during the year, even if it had already become popular during the previous season (if it hits the Top 40, it's popular). For instance, "Fancy" and "Rude" are associated with the summer of 2014, even though they had already become tremendously popular during the previous school year. As a result, I always associate a hit with when it first became popular, not when it was at its absolute most successful. So I consider "Fancy" and "Rude" to be 2013–14 hits, not summer 2014 hits. Being able to see where I'm coming from on this, you will be much better able to understand what I'm about to say.

2011 was a great year for music. Especially the later part. This is when the 2010s truly took off—it's when they found their identity. I liked the entire year, but I think the summer and the 2011–12 school year were the better parts. Some of my favorite hits from that summer are "I Wanna Go", "California King Bed", "Marvin's Room", "Talk That Talk", "Take Care", "Stitch by Stitch", "Skyscraper", "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" and "Remind Me". In late 2011 we finally saw the introduction of Indie music into the mainstream thanks in no part to Foster the People and EDM finally broke through with the Electro-House omega-hit "We Found Love" by Rihanna which had featured and was produced by Calvin Harris. These two trends brought much more diversity into the mainstream music market, and popular music had become more inclusive than it had in many, many years—the last time we had seen this was the mid 1990's! In 2009 and 2010, music pretty much only had four major genres on the radio: Electropop (of course), Hip-Hop, R&B, and Country, with Hip-Hop and R&B being branches of Electropop having strong synthetic productions. 2011 brought that total up to six—it may not seem like a lot on paper, but it really refreshed the pop music landscape! 2011 as a whole has just aged so much better than 2009 and 2010 have, even though they are defined by almost the exact same trends and sounds; except 2011 added both Indie music and Electronic Dance Music, as well as giving an update to the already existing genres.

2011 gave us a lot of classic songs, with some very memorable music videos to match! Here is a sample of songs from that year that I believe people will remember as some of the best pop songs of the decade, as well as music videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z09lYqdxqzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimoNqiulUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PN78PS_QsM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsBObg-1BQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ
Most of these are from the 2011–12 school year, but that's kind of the point; I think the 2011–12 was comfortably better than 2010–11 and was generally a major improvement over that year as well. Class of 2012 had a great senior year. What a time to be in high school!

Sartorially, the trends had pretty much stayed the same since their introduction into the mainstream during the summer of 2009. The one exception is that skinny jeans became a lot more popular on guys and girls wore leggings even more than they did before. The bright colors might have started to go away as well, but don't hold me to it though. Overall things were still somewhat Guido-ish, with Jersey Shore being a hugely popular show that was still on the air at the time and largely influencing how the trendy teenagers wanted to dress. Striped T-shirts and sweaters, tight jeans, frilly skirts, oversized sweaters, suspenders, "hipster glasses", Supras and other high-top sneakers, leggings, brightly colored tights under shorts, daisy prints, cartoon-print hoodies, anything from Hot Topic or Aeropostale for the underclassmen, H&M and Zara for the upperclassmen, bodycon dresses and skirts, and novelty t-shirts that were "one of a kind". Looking at it from an adult perspective, it seemed to be a revival of fashions from 1991. I know for certain that there was a distinct difference in the way that the underclassmen dressed and the upperclassmen dressed. 9th and 10th graders still dressed kind of childish, while 11th and 12th graders looked more grown-up and a little bit classier. It was not uncommon for 9th and 10th grade girls in the fall of 2011 to still be wearing Justice and Claire's and the boys of the same age to be wearing things from Quicksilver and Mossimo; if you were a freshman or sophomore in high school then chances are you were either getting your clothing from strip malls or Kohl's—I certainly was! Clearly, you could tell by appearance who was a 10th grader and who was an 11th grader, even if they were as little as just a month apart in age (e.g. August 1995/Junior and September 1995/Sophomore). Here are some pictures of what people were wearing during the 2011–12 school year!

High School Underclassmen:
http://kweeklies.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/09/19/091311_Homecoming07_t960.jpg?b8ea04f16efcb7dc07c41fa674167d6870b19a92 Freshman
http://kweeklies.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/09/19/091311_Homecoming06_t960.jpg?b8ea04f16efcb7dc07c41fa674167d6870b19a92 Sophomores
http://photos.smugmug.com/Metea-Sophomore-Homecoming/i-XzxkgKG/0/XL/IMG_0879bib-XL.jpg Sophomores
http://photos.smugmug.com/Metea-Sophomore-Homecoming/i-MT7bWNS/0/XL/IMG_0808bib-XL.jpg Sophomores
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8jCJt9-aKI8/TpvZtc7cJLI/AAAAAAAAAE0/fpbOZe1EgyU/s1600/kix+homecoming+2011+peetz2+edit.jpg Sophomores
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4TroeXB7ER8/TpvZoqigWGI/AAAAAAAAAEs/tKcZ756Mm7M/s1600/Homecoming+Merino.jpg Sophomores
High School Upperclassmen:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/benetonline.site-ym.com/photos/class/gallery/2152/20110919_171528_25147.jpg
There's two underclassmen girls in this picture, one sophomore and one freshman, but don't know which one it is.
http://media.morristechnology.com/webmedia/upload/rockdalenews/article/2011/09/21/HHS-queens-2011-Homecoming-.jpg Senior Girls
http://media.morristechnology.com/webmedia/upload/rockdalenews/article/2011/09/21/HHS-kings-2011-Homecoming-S.jpg Senior Boys
http://thevwindependent.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/VWHS-football-homecoming-promo-9-2011.jpg
From left to right, the first three are seniors, the fourth one is a junior, and the last two are underclassmen—sophomore and freshman, respectively.
http://kweeklies.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/09/19/091311_Homecoming05_t960.jpg?b8ea04f16efcb7dc07c41fa674167d6870b19a92 Junior couple
http://kweeklies.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/09/19/091311_Homecoming04_t960.jpg?b8ea04f16efcb7dc07c41fa674167d6870b19a92 Senior couple
http://kweeklies.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/09/19/091311_Homecoming03_t960.jpg?b8ea04f16efcb7dc07c41fa674167d6870b19a92 Senior couple
http://kweeklies.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/09/19/091311_Homecoming02_t960.jpg?b8ea04f16efcb7dc07c41fa674167d6870b19a92 Senior couple
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/yourhoustonnews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/a8/da8722f7-744b-536f-bcf5-9d0ce673c467/4e97a7917a498.image.jpg
Probably a mix of both seniors and juniors.
http://dakotafire.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Leola-seniors-all.jpg Seniors
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DZwyp5zzP1A/TqmC2FcBLsI/AAAAAAAAABA/thzwT5QmxYo/s1600/CourtB.JPG
It's possible that this could be a mix, but they all could pass for upperclassmen.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kfVuC0GHCEw/TqmHCUecFyI/AAAAAAAAABo/2iDLMG8RJ0I/s1600/DSC_0038.JPG Seniors
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/benetonline.site-ym.com/photos/class/gallery/2152/20110919_171527_24757.jpg
I can't tell which is which, but they all look like upperclassmen.
College students (who cares about the age?):
http://blogs.viu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/new_student_orientation_40_20110829_1422479249.jpg
http://www.southeastern.edu/news_media/news_releases/2011/oct/images/slu_homecoming_court.jpg
http://www.southeastern.edu/news_media/news_releases/2011/oct/images/slu_beau_court.jpg

As you can see, very 2009 to 2012; very early 2010's!! There isn't anything even remotely late 2000's or mid 2010's about this school year. 2011–12 was the absolute peak of the early 2010s. Everything from the culture to the politics to the atmosphere to the technology to the lifestyle, it is the ultimate in representing the early portion of the decade. It was the first, and only, school year where all the early 2010s teens were in high school at the exact same time. Class of 2012 was enjoying their senior year—the oldest early 2010s teens; while the Class of 2015—the youngest early 2010s teens—had just entered the world of high school. If someone were to make a movie or a television show that perfectly captured the early 2010s era, it would have to take place in the 2011–12 season, because it reflects everything to a T.

As a finisher, you know how fashion goes in 20 year cycles? Look at the fashions from the 1991–92 school year and tell me you don't see the resemblances. I dare you.
The underclassmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk7tAC9RI7w
The upperclassmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDN7fawPXr4

2011 was a great year for music. Especially the later part. This is when the 2010s truly took off—it's when they found their identity. I liked the entire year, but I think the summer and the 2011–12 school year were the better parts. Some of my favorite hits from that summer are "I Wanna Go", "California King Bed", "Marvin's Room", "Talk That Talk", "Take Care", "Stitch by Stitch", "Skyscraper", "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" and "Remind Me". In late 2011 we finally saw the introduction of Indie music into the mainstream thanks in no part to Foster the People and EDM finally broke through with the Electro-House omega-hit "We Found Love" by Rihanna which had featured and was produced by Calvin Harris. These two trends brought much more diversity into the mainstream music market, and popular music had become more inclusive than it had in many, many years—the last time we had seen this was the mid 1990's! In 2009 and 2010, music pretty much only had four major genres on the radio: Electropop (of course), Hip-Hop, R&B, and Country, with Hip-Hop and R&B being branches of Electropop having strong synthetic productions. 2011 brought that total up to six—it may not seem like a lot on paper, but it really refreshed the pop music landscape! 2011 as a whole has just aged so much better than 2009 and 2010 have, even though they are defined by almost the exact same trends and sounds; except 2011 added both Indie music and Electronic Dance Music, as well as giving an update to the already existing genres.


It may depend on wher you live, but here in Australia where I live EDM and Indie Music were already hugely popular in 2009-10. I remember the songs "Little Lion Man", "Undisclosed Desires", "Uprising", "Sweet Disposition", "Big Jet Plane" getting heavy airplay on mainstream radio in late 2009/early 2010. Plus, the breakthrough of David Guetta with the hits "When love takes over", "Sexy Chick" and "One Love" shows you that EDM was already massive in 2009. I even remember hearing Calvin Harris' "I'm Not Alone" on a trailer for a movie in 2009 even if he wasn't big outside the UK yet.

In saying that, I'm quite nostalgic already over the music of 2011-12. At lease that terrible trap music wasn't popular yet and those genres you mentioned were all helping make the radio diverse. Now it seems the only things popular now are electrohouse, trap and the occasional breakup ballad.

It may depend on wher you live, but here in Australia where I live EDM and Indie Music were already hugely popular in 2009-10. I remember the songs "Little Lion Man", "Undisclosed Desires", "Uprising", "Sweet Disposition", "Big Jet Plane" getting heavy airplay on mainstream radio in late 2009/early 2010. Plus, the breakthrough of David Guetta with the hits "When love takes over", "Sexy Chick" and "One Love" shows you that EDM was already massive in 2009. I even remember hearing Calvin Harris' "I'm Not Alone" on a trailer for a movie in 2009 even if he wasn't big outside the UK yet.


Oh yeah edm was already very popular by 2009. I am not nostalgic for it though, I hated the edm sound from that time.

It may depend on wher you live, but here in Australia where I live EDM and Indie Music were already hugely popular in 2009-10. I remember the songs "Little Lion Man", "Undisclosed Desires", "Uprising", "Sweet Disposition", "Big Jet Plane" getting heavy airplay on mainstream radio in late 2009/early 2010. Plus, the breakthrough of David Guetta with the hits "When love takes over", "Sexy Chick" and "One Love" shows you that EDM was already massive in 2009. I even remember hearing Calvin Harris' "I'm Not Alone" on a trailer for a movie in 2009 even if he wasn't big outside the UK yet.


Indeed, "Little Lion Man" is very much an Indie/Folk record, and would sit well with the Indie Folk songs of the early-mid 2010s; However, that was just one song in 2009—about two years before the trend really started. However, the rest of the songs that you just mentioned are definitely not something that would sit well in the 2010s. I don't even consider them proper Indie Pop. "Undisclosed Desires" and "Uprising" (which was a hit in the USA) are definitely not Indie; "Desires" sounds like an alternative electropop record, and "Uprising" just sounds like post-grunge mixed with arena rock and some synthesizers thrown into the mix. "Sweet Disposition" is a style of Indie Rock that is akin to The Strokes—I can easily see that band making that song during their first two records, maybe even the third one. "Big Jet Plane" doesn't sound Indie and has more of an adult contemporary/acoustic folk sound than anything else. Only "Little Lion Man" and "Uprising" were popular in America, and with the exception of "Little Lion Man" all of these songs sound dated and really belong with the late 2000's ("Sweet Disposition" even earlier). I never even heard of most of these songs until you mentioned them, but if I heard them in the early 2010s they still would have sounded dated, especially in comparison to Foster the People.

Regarding EDM, David Guetta's "When Love Takes Over" and "One Love" are fairly EDM-ish, but they're more Pop with a House flavor to me. They're also too chill and lack the exciting buildups, euphoric synths, climactic breakdowns, and anxiety-inducing intros that the Progressive House songs of the early 2010s like "We Found Love", "Turn Me On", "Feel So Close", and "Titanium" define themselves by. "Sexy Bitch" was definitely not EDM and is really an Electronic Hip-Hop record, having a much more consistent groove and it was more urban than his other songs; it sounds exactly like something from The Black Eyed Peas' album The E.N.D (who I can totally imagine doing that song). Now Calvin Harris's "I'm Not Alone" actually does sound like an early 2010s EDM song—it would fit in perfectly with 2012–13.

In saying that, I'm quite nostalgic already over the music of 2011-12. At lease that terrible trap music wasn't popular yet and those genres you mentioned were all helping make the radio diverse. Now it seems the only things popular now are electrohouse, trap and the occasional breakup ballad.

Yeah, I miss it too. I don't have too much of a problem with the current music trends though. But Australia and the United States are two completely different markets and their populations are made up of completely different demographics.

Electro-House isn't even popular here in America anymore. It's been replaced by the DJ Snake/Major Lazer/Chainsmokers style of EDM; those three artists have very different sounds, but they fall within the same range and they make similar music. There isn't an official name for it, but their songs fall under the names Trap-EDM, Moombahton, Future Bass, Wonky, Future Garage, and Tropical House. It's defined by mid-tempo grooves (about 89-99 beats per minute, although anything above 95 is rare), relaxed and somewhat psychedelic synthesizers, deep bass, looped (and sometimes stuttery) vocals during the chorus, and offbeat/glitchy rhythms. This is very different from the dance music of the early-mid 2010s. It started coming in around the 2014 portion of the 2013–14 school year with the songs "Latch" and "Turn Down for What". Mainstream audiences continued to taste a very small sample of what was yet to come in the 2015 portion of the 2014–15 school year with the songs "You Know You Like It" and "Lean On". The real turning point, however, was the 2015–16 school year, where there was no more early 2010's-style dance music on the pop charts and it was all replaced by the new sound. Evidently, we saw a HUGE breakthrough in this kind of music and an incredible amount of songs in the style of the songs mentioned above became hits in such a short period of time—"Roses", "On My Mind", "I Took a Pill in Ibiza", "Never Forget You", and "Middle" are just a sample of what we heard. It came so fast! Now that's all that we hear on the radio here in the USA!


Oh yeah edm was already very popular by 2009. I am not nostalgic for it though, I hated the edm sound from that time.


I think you might be referring to Electropop/Dance-pop. "She Wolf", "TiK ToK", "Bad Romance", and "Down" are so different from "Back in Time", "Where Have You Been", "Too Close", and "Don't You Worry Child".