Retrotrend: “Everything works”: The music of the 2000 is back

It applies to fashion, the cinema and the charts – everything will come back at some point! And in recent years, the retro trend seems to be accelerating in music: The 80s came back primarily through social media and streaming successes such as “Stranger Things” (such as Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”), the 90s were never actually gone and are celebrated at their own parties and festival series.

The 2000s are currently experiencing a comeback. But what does this decade – that not even so long ago – actually distinguish? It is not so easy to answer, Derek from Krogh from the Mannheim pop academy.

“In the 80s and 90s there were still very clear genre assignments. The 2000 would probably be described with” everything goes and everything works with everything “.

Bands like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit or Papa Roach mix rock, metal and hip-hop to Nu Metal. Punk rock and indie rock also become popular by Green Day, The Killers or Avril Lavigne. In addition, R&B and hip-hop experience an upswing and electronic dance music (EDM) by stars such as Usher, Eminem, Alicia Keys and Beyoncé produces high-flyers like David Guetta.

The 2000s started in Germany with casting shows such as “Deutschland sucht den Superstars” and “pop stars”. And of course there are also the decade of the very big pop divas: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga.

That’s why the 2000s were so “crossbet”

But why are the nineties mixed so? “Bad tongues could claim that the possibilities of rock music have been counted for a while. Just like the possibilities of making clearly delimited electrical music genres,” says Derek from Krogh. He sees another reason in relocating music to the Internet.

“The 90s were shaped by music television. The transmitters and record companies act as a gatekeeper, so they selected and ordered the music. This caused explicit styles.” When this filter function fell away, everything published by platforms such as Napster, YouTube and MySpace landed directly at the consumer. “That was reflected in the variety of music.”

It is also social platforms that are partly responsible for the current comeback of the 2000 music. On Tikok and Instagram, clips with songs from that time are also underlaid and spread millions of times – like “Get Up” by Ciara (2006). Especially with the so -called millennials that were born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, nostalgic feelings arise, because the songs and music stars are inseparable with their teenage period.

With Tikkok through the music history

“Basically, the gene Z gets to know the music history through Tikok in a quick run,” explains van Krogh. For many, however, this is limited to highlights and key moments – such as the legendary drum solo at “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins.

“The early 2000s still sound the most modern of all the old things that you can see in quick run,” says the artistic director of the Mannheim pop academy. “When I hear a modern R’n’B soul piece or Destiny’s Child from the beginning of the 2000s-that doesn’t really make a huge difference aesthetically. That still sounds very topical.”

And so it happens that many radio stations rely on web channel with 2000 music and are still on stage with many stars from that time – like the No Angels, Justin Timberlake, the Sugababes, Usher or most recently Monrose at the Berlin CSD. In the German hit lists, too, the charter investigators from GfK Entertainment noticed some 2000 songs this year – for very different reasons.

That is why 2000 hits end up in the charts

The cinema romance “where the lie falls” undertook a key scene with the 2004 hit “Unlocked” by Natasha Bedingfield at the beginning of the year, which then landed in the top 10 again. Linkin Park’s stage comeback provided many streams of older songs such as “In The End” (2000) and “Numb” (2003).

The young actor and musician Noah Kraus (24) published a new version of “only one word” a few months ago, which also flushed the original of us heroes from 2005 in the charts. The Hamburger skillfully mixes the 2000 pop rock of German bands like July and Silbermond with current good mood rap à la Ski AGGU. In the spirit of the musical motto of the zero years: “Everything goes”.