2000s nostalgia?

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All of my favorite tennis players are from the 2000s: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer and Denis Istomin. Tennis is the one sport in which I like today's players the best.

I just don't "feel it." I don't even feel for the 90s all that much.

I feel mostly for the time when I was a kid: the 60s and 70s.

What is there to feel nostalgic about from the 2000s: dial-up Internet?

the 90's were my youth so I have a lot of affection for it. But I am baffled at what people could try and bring back for nostalgias sake

hypercolor t-shirts?

The 2000s were hell for me given they were my years for middle school (I was bullied a lot) and high school (an outcast among fellow outcasts), so I don't want to feel nostalgia for that particular decade.

2000s were the worst possible decade for me.

I'm nostalgic for the mid 70s.

Well, I was a kid and a developing teenager during the 2000s. I remember the revival of some 80s franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones and some remakes, I think...which was basically cemented in the 2010s where almost every movie is a remake of an 80s movie like Ghost Busters, Robocop, Fright Night, It...or 80s nostalgia like Stranger Things.

But what was original about the 2000s? I'm still kind of trying to figure that out. Will there be a revival of grunge in the 2020s? Because that would be kind of cool.

There were a lot of shows from Cartoon Network that I really liked like Dexter's Lab, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, The Powerpuff Girls, Dragon Ball Z...actually, maybe there'll be a really big surge in reviving a lot of Animes from the 2000s when the 2030s roll around.

The movies between the 90s and 2010s were also kind of in a weird stage for action, I guess. For reference, look at the first three Mission Impossible movies and the latest three. Especially when they wanted to make fights look realistic in MI3, there was the whole shakey cam thing, but it other movies would have the action look really staged. I looked up some movies from the 2000s and I think Donnie Darko is extremely likely to get a remake. Maybe The Lord of the Rings as well? Those movies are still too close to my memory that I hope that will never happen(though, it probably will).

Oh, this was also when Pixar was pretty much in its golden age. Would that make a come back somehow with completely different people who grew up with those movies and now want to do their take on them?

As for the music...



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Go away...

Honestly, yeah, whatever, some of the music was fine. Almost like any other decade, but it was also kind of the decade where rock music kind of vanished. I know Green Day was really popular and there were some indie bands(Franz Ferdinand being my favorite) that had one good hit, but they never really went anywhere after that(though, Franz Ferdinand is still making music and they're still so good )

This was also around the time when Guitar Hero was really popular which made classic rock really popular again which is kind of surprising that there weren't really any bands capitalizing on the classic rock sounds of the 70s or 80s during that period but I guess that kind of became a niche thing anyway, especially with someone like me who really loves Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

I think a lot of music is also heavily influenced by R&B and Hip Hop and we're still kind of in that era right now with people like Adele, Sam Smith, Beyonce, and a lot of music that uses trap beats which I'll be incredibly happy when trap beats finally go away forever.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, it's also worth noting that a lot of people popular in the 2000s are still popular in the 2010s like Beyonce, Justin Beiber, Maroon 5, etc. That's kind of something interesting to think about.

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Lindsay Ellis did a really good video about the 30 year circle with Nostalgia which is why a lot of people say we're in the time of nostalgia for the 80s right now.

I already have 2000s nostalgia (certainly for the early-mid 2000s).

I think there's a lot about the 2000s (or 2000s as experienced in the UK) that people cringe about now, but will unexpectedly look back on warmly - pre-recession times, the explosion of bizarre reality TV, skinny jeans-wearing indie bands, early social media (MySpace anyone?), last of the British high street still doing relatively well.

I don't hold out much hope for the world as it stands; in times to come, I think the 2000s will seem to many like an indulgent, unsustainable but comparatively harmless time. In any case, people always take a rosier view of the past as it drifts further back in time.