I already covered that in the 2010 vs. Now thread but lets have a topic, shall we?

So the big question is what's your opinion on that particular period of time for Mainstream Music? Do you love it? Hate it? Miss it? What was your favorite and least favorite song of that period?

For those unaware or too young to remember, it was a period for mainstream music, when the recession was at its worst, where the vast majority of hit songs were Electro-House driven and where the BPM rarely fell under 120 (nowadays it rarely goes up that limit).
It was the period of those hit songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbpGmR1-QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doy6NQGnwcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dvTjK_07c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SI2EDM6Lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWq_48LxWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPo5wWmKEaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9_n8jakvWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzU9OrZlKb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4H_Zoh7G5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeIJmciN8mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOowQeKyNkQ

I bypassed it.

BTW, having too many videos in one post slows down the loading of the pages, especially for those with tablets or on phones.

BTW, having too many videos in one post slows down the loading of the pages, especially for those with tablets or on phones.
Yup ;D Definitely gonna put links instead

Yup ;D Definitely gonna put links instead
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I already covered that in the 2010 vs. Now thread but lets have a topic, shall we?

So the big question is what's your opinion on that particular period of time for Mainstream Music? Do you love it? Hate it? Miss it? What was your favorite and least favorite song of that period?

For those unaware or too young to remember, it was a period for mainstream music, when the recession was at its worst, where the vast majority of hit songs were Electro-House driven and where the BPM rarely fell under 120 (nowadays it rarely goes up that limit).
It was the period of those hit songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbpGmR1-QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIN_SGQy9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dvTjK_07c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPo5wWmKEaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg


it was cool for like the first few years and then jumped the shark
I was ready for it go by 2012/2013

I miss it lol ;D Could we go back to 2012 please?

Definitely not the best time for music but I give it a pass for at least being fun music. Probably the best time to be a kid (music wise) considering the genre sounds incredibly teenybopper.

I was 10-13 years old from that time, and I'm already pretty nostalgic for a lot of the mainstream music from then. While I don't necessarily miss it since I can still listen to it and am a fan of the current era of music, I do love it and that era of music as a whole. :)

Added a bunch more hits, there's a A LOT. I had to limit myself to one per artist ;D

As for the clips, I noticed a heavy use of people dancing at parties, product placements and Sci-fi themes. Add that to the EDM and robotic voice effects, and it was probably a great time if you were fan of futuristic stuff :P

It was such a fun era. Had a blast partying to it at uni.

I really miss that era :-\\

Yeah, I enjoyed it. I danced to nearly all of the songs that came out during that time although for me I would extend it to 2013. There was still some electropop tracks left that year before the neo-teen pop took over.

Best era of my life! Loved it both personally and pop culturally. Everything about my life was just so much better and happier back then so yeah I miss it a lot. It's also my favorite era for music along with the 60's as I was a young teenager then so it all had a big impact.

My favorite song of the era was probably Lady Gaga's The Edge Of Glory as it pretty much summed up how I felt in the peak of my life during 2011. Least favorite song is a lot tougher but maybe Willow Smith's I Whip My Hair!

Yeah I miss it a lot!

Here are some from 2013


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHUbLv4ThOo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtGl1dX5qI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGIgXP9SvB8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys7-6_t7OEQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxajLWwzqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxstCcJlsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I

^^^ Beauty and a Beat by Justin Bieber was from 2012, not 2013.  Clarity by Zedd and Get Lucky by Daft Punk are very mid '10s and don't belong in the electropop era.

Does anybody remember this song?  It didn't chart all that well but it was probably the last song that sounded straight out of 2011 (not quite as uptempo as 2009 and 2010 were).  It came out in 2016.

XoiEkEuCWog

Terrible era. I hated the music at that time and my personal life wasn't good.

XoiEkEuCWog

Meh, it's a little too slow and has clear trap influences, a very mid-2010s song tbh

It literally feels like every other thread here nowadays has something to do with the Great Recession era and electropop in some form. I actually think of this board specifically whenever I stumble upon songs like “Break Your Heart” or “Down.”

Look, it was a decent enough movement, certainly a relief from the snap craze of the mid/late 2000s if you were unlucky enough to grow up in the US at the time, but even with a handful of dance classics, it’s still nothing that remarkable, certainly not worth all the obsessive attention it gets here, especially considering it’s not even a decade old yet.

It literally feels like every other thread here nowadays has something to do with the Great Recession era and electropop in some form. Look, it was a decent enough movement, certainly a relief from the snap movement of the mid/late 2000s if you were unlucky enough to grow up in the US at the time, but even with a handful of dance classics, it’s still nothing that remarkable, certainly not worth all the obsessive attention it gets here, especially considering it’s not even a decade old yet.

I agree. I'd say give it at least 3 years before the early 2010s become as nostalgic as the early 2000s once was. The early 2010s just feel too damn recent right now, but I guess it depends on how old you are.

It literally feels like every other thread here nowadays has something to do with the Great Recession era and electropop in some form. Look, it was a decent enough movement, certainly a relief from the snap movement of the mid/late 2000s if you were unlucky enough to grow up in the US at the time, but even with a handful of dance classics, it’s still nothing that remarkable, certainly not worth all the obsessive attention it gets here, especially considering it’s not even a decade old yet.


I think it has to do with the fact that for a lot of people, this hasn't been the greatest decade.  I've talked a lot about my own personal life on this board but I am not the only one who fondly remembers the early '10s as a much better time in my life and is dissatisfied with today.  The early '10s has somewhat of an innocence to it that was lost sometime around 2013.

Now of course, not everybody liked the era.  One thing I've noticed both on this board and in real life is that people who didn't like electropop liked the mid '10s and vice versa.

That era was actually late 2008 to late 2013, more or less. And 2010 - 2012 was the worse era of my life, 2012 was the peak year of darkness. Then things improved in 2013. Give me the mid 2010s any day.

Now of course, not everybody liked the era.  One thing I've noticed both on this board and in real life is that people who didn't like electropop liked the mid '10s and vice versa.

Yeah that's how I feel about it.

It literally feels like every other thread here nowadays has something to do with the Great Recession era and electropop in some form. I actually think of this board specifically whenever I stumble upon something like “Break Your Heart” or “Down.”

Look, it was a decent enough movement, certainly a relief from the snap craze of the mid/late 2000s if you were unlucky enough to grow up in the US at the time, but even with a handful of dance classics, it’s still nothing that remarkable, certainly not worth all the obsessive attention it gets here, especially considering it’s not even a decade old yet.

I didn't notice that (granted I wasn't on this forum very long). My best guess it's because a lot of people seem to agree that this decade has been very consistent throughout most of it, so it's kinda fun to analyze a part of it that had noticeable differences.
Also, it's not a decade old but almost, the core years of it are already 7-8 years old. Kids back then are in their teenage years now, teenagers in their adulthood so it starts to be quite a while.

I didn't notice that (granted I wasn't on this forum very long). My best guess it's because a lot of people seem to agree that this decade has been very consistent throughout most of it, so it's kinda fun to analyze a part of it that had noticeable differences.
Also, it's not a decade old but almost, the core years of it are already 7-8 years old.

For me, the early 2010s aren't that different and the entire decade has been consistent overall.

Now of course, not everybody liked the era.  One thing I've noticed both on this board and in real life is that people who didn't like electropop liked the mid '10s and vice versa.

This pretty much sums me up. I hated early 2010s pop but really like the mid/late 2010s pop. However, I like early 2010s astetic way more than today's. The music videos were much brighter then.

I think it has to do with the fact that for a lot of people, this hasn't been the greatest decade.  I've talked a lot about my own personal life on this board but I am not the only one who fondly remembers the early '10s as a much better time in my life and is dissatisfied with today.  The early '10s has somewhat of an innocence to it that was lost sometime around 2013.

Now of course, not everybody liked the era.  One thing I've noticed both on this board and in real life is that people who didn't like electropop liked the mid '10s and vice versa.


I can understand your nostalgia for the period because it was such a particularly positive era in your life, especially compared to today, but it just astounds me how heavily this nostalgia-centric board fixates on the “electropop era” and not really the late 90s or even the early or mid-2000s. I know it has to do with people’s ages here, but I still find it weird how far from the traditional nosalgia cycle this place is.


That era was actually late 2008 to late 2013, more or less.

I don’t care about the specific boundaries, I’m just referring to a very general period of time. With how much this topic has been beaten to the ground, it’s really not worth having a heart attack just because somebody else refers to the “electropop era” without including late 2008 or early 2013.

I can understand your nostalgia for the period because it was such a particularly positive era in your life, especially compared to today, but it just astounds me how heavily this nostalgia-centric board fixates on the “electropop era” and not really the late 90s or even the early or mid-2000s. I know it has to do with people’s ages here, but I just find it weird how far from the traditional nosalgia cycle this place is.


It's important to remember though that some threads discussing an era aren't for nostalgia purposes, but just because the person enjoys the era. Like me making threads about the mid 2010s (such as the 2015 thread). It is not because I am nostalgic for it or miss it (I may in the future) but it's because I simply enjoyed those years and like talking about things that happened then. And people in the future can come back to it and get nostalgic for it. The last year I have true nostalgia for though is probably 2007. But if people do miss the early 2010s and look back nostalgically, it's probably all from age. I know in the late '00s, I already missed the early 2000s and had a lot of nostalgia for it because I was a little kid back then. It's a all about perspective.

I won't really consider 2013 part of it, like previously said the the Electropop hits if that years were actually released in 2012 and started their charting late and bleeded through 2013 (so maybe the earlier part of it can).

Also the year saw a big crash in BPM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco

I voted "Meh". It was a mix of good and bad for me. 2009-2012 was 90% of my middle school years (I was in middle school from September 2010 to June 2013).

I liked that we were still in Obama's first term and I miss his Presidency so much every day. Also, I like a lot of the popular songs from them (not all but many).

However, middle school mostly sucked for me and my life was very bland during that span. Most movies and TV shows from that time period were also bland, IMO.

I didn't notice that (granted I wasn't on this forum very long). My best guess it's because a lot of people seem to agree that this decade has been very consistent throughout most of it, so it's kinda fun to analyze a part of it that had noticeable differences.
Also, it's not a decade old but almost, the core years of it are already 7-8 years old. Kids back then are in their teenage years now, teenagers in their adulthood so it starts to be quite a while.

I believe that being on this forum (and the internet in general) makes the early 2010s and late 2000s feel more distant than it would otherwise to me. It seems that music, technology, and pop culture from those eras are being seen through a "nostalgic lense." Before I joined this forum a couple months ago, 2008 and especially 2010 felt just like yesterday. Now it feels very distant. It is so weird.

You guys have also made me feel like a grandma. 

I believe that being on this forum (and the internet in general) makes the early 2010s and late 2000s feel more distant than it would otherwise to me. It seems that music, technology, and pop culture from those eras are being seen through a "nostalgic lense." Before I joined this forum a couple months ago, 2008 and especially 2010 felt just like yesterday. Now it feels very distant. It is so weird.

You guys have also made me feel like a grandma.


That's exactly how I felt when I joined this forum in 2015 – except I was feeling that way about 2005+ which was all the talk of the forum back then ;D

But a lot of people here were young back then so it's only natural. I remember when I started posting in video game forums in 2006/2007, I was nostalgic for video games released 1997-2001 like Pokémon and Smash Bros., so it's very natural.

^^^ Beauty and a Beat by Justin Bieber was from 2012, not 2013.  Clarity by Zedd and Get Lucky by Daft Punk are the very mid-'10s and don't belong in the electropop era.
When I typed in electropop 2013 a few hours ago, those songs actually popped up with the ones I listed. Beauty and a Beat though appeared in the 2013 charts. 


It literally feels like every other thread here nowadays has something to do with the Great Recession-era and electropop in some form. I actually think of this board specifically whenever I stumble upon songs like “Break Your Heart” or “Down.”

Look, it was a decent enough movement, certainly a relief from the snap craze of the mid/ the late 2000s if you were unlucky enough to grow up in the US at the time, but even with a handful of dance classics, it’s still nothing that remarkable, certainly not worth all the obsessive attention it gets here, especially considering it’s not even a decade old yet.
Yeah, I agree with you. I definitely did enjoy that period, but for some reason, I don't know why we are all nostalgic for it in a way when the era itself only ended 5 years ago. If anything, the nostalgia should be more on the 90s and 00s, but because most people here don't remember the former and some of the latter in addition to a lot of people still see the era as somewhat recent to them, it's why we don't see any reminisces about those decades on here.


I don't really consider 2013 part of it like previously said the Electropop hits if those years were actually released in 2012 and started their charting late and bled through 2013 (so maybe the earlier part of it can).

Also, the year saw a big crash in BPM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco
Well, there were still some electropop songs that year although only for the first half. By, the second half it was clearly over.

Get Lucky and Clarity are part of the early 2010s, not the mid 2010s. Most songs from the 2013 are early 2010s. The vibe did change near summer and the second half when songs like 23 and Royals came on the scene.

Get Lucky is not Electropop at all, it's Nu-Disco and started the whole funk/disco resurgence of the mid-2010s a la Uptown Funk, Can't Stop the Feeling and other Cake By the Ocean.

Get Lucky is not Electropop at all, it's Nu-Disco and started the whole funk/disco resurgence of the mid-2010s a la Uptown Funk, Can't Stop the Feeling and other Cake By the Ocean.
Blame google for that error. I typed in electropop songs from 2013 and that track was on the list most likely because it's also considered a dance song which was most of the electropop.

Get Lucky is not Electropop at all, it's Nu-Disco and started the whole funk/disco resurgence of the mid-2010s a la Uptown Funk, Can't Stop the Feeling and other Cake By the Ocean.

Sure it's not electropop, but I still see it more as an early 2010s song given the time of its release. There's no way anything from early 2013 is mid 2010s, both numerically and culturally.

Sure it's not electropop, but I still see it more as an early 2010s song given the time of its release. There's no way anything from early 2013 is mid 2010s, both numerically and culturally.
It's only a digit you know, trends don't follow strict periods of time, especially when it comes to music. That's why thd Post-Punk/New Wave era stretches roughly from the late 70s all the way to the mid-80s. That's why this period starts with the late 2000s. And that's why I can easily lump 2013 with the rest of the decade because it started a lot of trends.

^^^ Beauty and a Beat by Justin Bieber was from 2012, not 2013.  Clarity by Zedd and Get Lucky by Daft Punk are very mid '10s and don't belong in the electropop era.

Does anybody remember this song?  It didn't chart all that well but it was probably the last song that sounded straight out of 2011 (not quite as uptempo as 2009 and 2010 were).  It came out in 2016.

XoiEkEuCWog


Yeah!! I thought I was the only one in this world who noticed that :o That song has a weird nostalgic 2011-12 vibe and it was only released in 2016

While everyone else was into Kesha and Lady Gaga...I was dancing on my own to Robyn.

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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D And guess what? After 7 years, she's coming out with a new album this year!!!!!!  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Yeah!! I thought I was the only one in this world who noticed that :o That song has a weird nostalgic 2011-12 vibe and it was only released in 2016


I think it's the catchy hook, the club anthem lyrics, and the autotune.  There weren't very many songs like that in the mid '10s but they dominated the early '10s.

While everyone else was into Kesha and Lady Gaga...I was dancing on my own to Robyn.

CcNo07Xp8aQ Nv644ipg2Ss

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D And guess what? After 7 years, she's coming out with a new album this year!!!!!!  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D


I remember these songs.  One of my best friends back then really liked Robyn.

I remember these songs.  One of my best friends back then really liked Robyn.


Since we're around the same age, you probably remember this y2k hit from her:

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Time maybe for my opinion too ;D

I'm mostly "meh" on the period and the songs themselves, I think it was around that time I started to really dislike hit songs (mostly Boom Boom Pow which I couldn't stand). But thinking of it, I might actually have a soft spot for it. Sure, it was extremely vapid music, but in the dark days of the recession it was exactly what was needed: stupid but extremely energetic and happy music to forget your mind on the dancefloor.


Definitely not the best time for music but I give it a pass for at least being fun music. Probably the best time to be a kid (music wise) considering the genre sounds incredibly teenybopper.
It's actually very true, the early 2010s looked to be a really great time to be a kid with all the revivals of different children mediums like Cartoon Network and Disney movies, the exciting new technologies like the iPad and mostly kid-friendly electro hits a la Katy Perry (same can't be really said about nowadays trap hits).

Funny how I was actually leaving my childhood behind in those times (turning 13 in 2010) ;D