first generation since recorded music began to produce nothing of any value
First generation since recorded music began to produce nothing of any value
Idk I listen to Siames pretty regularly.
The weeknd is a millennial, too.
Most of the stuff released in the 90s gives me bowling alley nostalgia though, like bad day, or feel the rain on your skin. I don't care to hunt the songs down but they're nostalgic.
At least they had Twenty One Pilots, Royal Blood, and Deafheaven
guy who doesn't know how to spell is filtered by millennial music.
i don't care if two members are technically gen x, this is the first millennial album
They were all Xennials, a crossover generation leading to millennials
It surely produced more listenable music than zoomshitters
xennials should apply to 78-79 births which a ton of artists from the 2000s were born under. julilan and nikolai are the only ones who fall under this age range. the other three were born in either 1980 or 1981
no, they really didn't. that's why it's funny when millennials shit on zoomers for producing nothing when they haven't done shit themselves. the last great artists were all gen x'ers
Personally I like Pleasantries
We had the bad luck to start entering the music industry right when the global economy melted down in the late 00s. Not our fault.
Personally I like pink pony club. You also can't pretend Taylor doesn't exist even if I don't like her music.
I have shit taste and I can't spell
Oh OK, thanks.
Bladee
OP can't spell
is this some meme/movie reference i'm not getting?
Vampire Weekend
Arctic Monkeys
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Killers (Brandon Flowers)
Devendra Banhart
Black Kids (half of them)
The Faint / Conor Oberst
Kings of Leon
Avril Lavigne
Amy Winehouse
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Weeknd
Twenty One Pilots
Lorde (early was good)
Rihanna
Katy Perry
Skrillex
Adele
Lady Gaga
Fun
Lana Del Rey
Frankmusik
Linkin Park
Christina Aguilera
Bladee
I wouldn't call these great, but they were popular:
Drake
Taylor Swift
None of these are any good though.
Compared to what? Name some
you forgot tame impala
real rock music
alice in chains
nirvana
modest mouse
built to spill
electric wizard
YES
URIAH HEEP
THE BAND
JETHRO TULL
THEY DONT MAKE MUSIC LIKE THEY USED TO
Nirvana
I shat myself, hell yeah
(shoots heroin , shoots himself)
1996 sisters.... Our response? Surely we are not geriatric zoomers...
The answer is.. Lil B
Yeah forgot more probably
Someone add what I missed
Rock is a separate case. Rock died in the 90s.
And OP asked for some names that made great music, not about rock bands.
I give you that, post-90s rock is not as great as rock until mid90s. But there was still good music made by actual millennials, some of them listed above
Nobody who is into music would listen to that crap
Grim. Also, a few of these are Gen X. Definitely Linkin Park and Aguilera. Probably The Faint, too. (Oberst wasn't a member, they were just on his label.)
Millennials made good music if you redefine Gen Xers as them.
The good 2000s artists were barely millennial
Arcade Fire
strokes
Lcd soundsystem
Animal Collective
shins
something very sudden, a cosmic change happened on 31 December 1979 and people born after that moment became completely different, they became millennials
Bait
It's pretty grim if the best millennial album was primarily made by Gen X and is also something this mediocre & edgless.
There's many shit bands in here but literally all of these are better than any millennial band.
None of those are good except the Strokes, and that's only if you use the term 'good' very liberally. Animal Collective and Arcade Fire are outright so dogshit that they helped kill rock.
don't think of them as rock bands. They (arcade fire and AnCo) are merely Beach Boys reinventions, inconsistent, but genuine good pop inbetween
Christina Aguilera was born in '79 she's almost but not quite a Millenial. The first Millenial pop star proper to break out was Rihanna.
I was born 82 and have nothing in common with other millennials . I think gen x should be from 1983
Wouldn't Chappell Roan count as a very late Millenial?
not only do Millenials have no talent but Kanye is the only guy still making any interesting stuff and he's a late Gen Xer who was already a grown adult in the '90s
Christina Aguilera was born in '79
Why are so many morons in this thread unable to just read
Some of the best millennial music, ie music popular with and made for millennials, was created by late Xers who didn't make it back in the 90s. They were late bloomers, so they only made it by identifying with millennial culture.
Like Crystal Castles, Strokes, White Stripes.
Just being born in a certain year does not regiment you strictly in the culture of your generation. I'm technically born as an Xer but I always identified and grew up with millennial culture but also caught some of the late X culture. So I'm in between GenX and GenY culture, with a bit of Z culture influence too. Nobody's like squarely living within the brackets of their generation.
So the music of "my time" includes both 90s Nirvana and 00s downtempo, Einsturzende and Nick Cave, some Tom Waits but also Massive Attack, White Stripes and Strokes, Primal Scream and Adam F, Aphex Twin and some Crystal Castles etc etc. I'm not strictly limited to any particular generation.
So I don't see why we'd apply such strictness to those that made the music. It's always been the case that the music of one generation was made mostly by the previous generation. I don't feel like Cobain born in the 60s was from my generation but his music was part of my generation too. And a lot of millennials made music for zoomers.
It's just that music making has become so cheap and accessible that Gen Z might be the first that will mostly have music made by its own cohort, compared to previous gens.
As a late Gen Xer I'm sorry for Millenials who were forced to act like RHCP were still 22 and "one of the kids." We had this same thing foisted on us with Aerosmith.
I know a millennial chick who grew up being a huge Bon Jovi fan which wasn't unusual back then
There was a chick in my school (millennial) who was a Tina Turner fan, even copied her haircut.
Then we had a group of Michael Jackson fans back in high school, lol.
Did millennials have a similar degree of FOMO to zoomers where they genuinely overrate the newest shit as on par with the classics? Looking at the history the only works that seemed similarly overrated were MPP and Kanye, Maybe nu-Swans but again served as meme opportunities so who knows.
I get the idea that they at least had a greater grasp on what came before due to hipster gatekeeping setting some sort of precedent, so even if a band is nothing special they could at the very least recognize that while still liking them for what they are.
As determined by you? And who are you?
Why do you have any credibility?
That anon who said the late 2000s recession fucked this generation over had a point.
The Beach Boys are just proto-millennial slop for low test faggots, so the comparison isn't helping any. Plus those are both still somehow way worse and faggier than the Beach Boys.
I'll take real man rock like AC/DC and the Stooges, thank you very much.
I think you guys are focusing on band member age too much, some of that 1980s music is quintessentially Gen X even if Boomers made it. This and grunge and gangsta rap is Gen X. Maybe a little Pop-Punk.
I think Green Day is quasi-Gen X. Millennials like them but everyone in the band is Gen X and they got famous for being Musical Jon Stewart. However, millennials grew up with Jon Stewart even if hes Gen X. So we have <generation music> and <generation linked together music>. X Music and XLennial music if you will.
Xoomer is like Michael Jackson I guess.
Anyway, I could see Linkin Park be Xlennial since Millennials memed it on youtube.
Yes Millennials were so annoying about that when LCD Soundsystem came out I definitely remember them being hailed as making a Top 200 album ever and shit.
take real man rock
This statement is way more cringe than anything the beach boys does. As much as I hate boomer hate from dumb zoomers, this just fuels them
Another question worth exploring is why is this cunt and other brit scene singers automatically distasteful to people with taste (generally non-zoomers) while other performative autistics get a pass (David Thomas, Robert Wyatt, James Chance).
Why can i watch this and actually be engaged in the performance when i genuinely want to murder the singer from Squid the second the vocals come in?
youtube.com
Isn't it worse now though? At least they were indie in some way. Now people overrate fucking dance pop records and try to call it art pop. It doesn't even make any sense and is desperate and cringe
I knew a guy in high school who was a Led Zep fan, another Deep Purple fan, another Depeche Mode. All millennials.
And I was listening to Nirvana, Einsturzende, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Portishead, but also Clash, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, some Radiohead, Suede, Prodigy, Aphex, Hooverphonic, 16 Horsepower, etc etc.
Reality is a lot more mixed up than what you read in the media.
i genuinely want to murder the singer from Squid the second the vocals come in?
Same. The Squid vocals are possibly the most annoying shit I've heard in the last 10 years
Christgau was overrating dance pop records before it was cool especially if a black artist made them.
What little decent music millennials made all played to smaller niches on the Internet. Most of it was incredibly derivative but it was all just about making what you liked. Then those niches all slowly got eroded and now "niches on the Internet" are all either occupied by pretentious retards with varying political ideologies, or if they actually are art-first, they're occupied by complete speds.
The Beach Boys are the highest test musical act of all time.
nothing of any value
Don't Chvrches and Paramore count for something?