Going off pop hits, not good albums
There's actually a pretty good folk rock cover-ish of 99 Problems
https://youtu.be/swnudbCnccs
...unless this is the exact song you meant
Was literally in the And Introducing episode as the example they gave for the entire "novelty white people cover of rap songs" genre
Episode was on the worst songs of all time btw
I like that Jet song, but I do agree that like 2003-2006 were really bad years for pop.
Didn't SoaD release Steal this Album tho? Also I enjoyed The Cat Empire's first album.
Honestly, 2020. COVID really threw a wrench in the gears of everything: music, movies, video games, not to mention life in general.
2018 was very blah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2018
2006 was also pretty bad, it was the peak saturation of butt rock, and soft rock artists like the fray and james blunt
2011, purely because of LMFAO. I never want to hear Party Rock Anthem or I'm sexy and I know it ever again.
True, it was pretty bleak until the Nikkei crowd flew in with the smash hit Hurrian Hymn no6 in 1400BCE
I'd have a tough time picking a specific year but the 90's in general was really bad I feel like.
1996 saw the release of Nickelback's first album, the same year Tupac was killed... Coincidence? I think not.
i actually feel like music has recovered for the most part from the desolate wasteland that was 2008-2013 pop (thinking tpain autotuned influenced rap, the dubstep stuff, whatever LMFAO was, avicii etc ) and now we have far more diverse and talented people (especially black women rappers) than we have had in years. like even our gen of pop girls (charli, billie, olivia, ariana, taylor, dua, carly rae ) all sound different from each other when jack antonoff isnt doing the production...although dua does feel less distinctive sometimes
i dont think the mid 2000s were that bad music wise because rap / RnB and hip hop were at least was very very very good and arguably at one of it's peaks (kanye, missy, ciara, luda, pharrell, mario, omarion, ashanti, ja rule) although most rock at that time seemed to be anime music video rock
ok I thought about it a bit more seriously and i think it's somewhere between early to mid 2000s, when MTV was being displaced by kids downloading shit off napster/kazaa/limewire leading to a bit of an identity crisis as suddenly old networks struggled to keep up with the trends instead of BEING the trend, but i'd put my bet firmly on 2003 just because Jet/Get Born was released that year
In terms of production, pop records now feel really dull since every good pop artist seems to be getting Jack Antonoff to produce a bunch of sleepers.
Here in the UK we went through a phase around mid 00s to early 10s of being spoilt for lots of fun indie rock bands with catchy hooks to belt out with your mates on a night out. That soon devolved into 100 copy+pastes trying to do the same thing and since about 2014 everything in the top 10 has been hellish recreations, incredibly boring pop, or Ed Sheeran, who's a bit of both.
