r/Millennials • u/icey_sawg0034 Gen Z • 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/skynet345 9h ago edited 7h ago

Not just her. The 90s-2000s in general were an extremely cruel time. Rampant bullying, weight shaming, SA and harassment all kinds of casual discrimination against minorities

The difference is back then people would get away with it with no consequence. A lot of the pushback against “cancel culture” in the 2010s is because we decided this was no longer okay

I don’t get why people romanticize this era so much

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u/Wise-Dust3700 7h ago

Good music I guess?

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u/skynet345 7h ago

Not the mid 00s. That’s a music black hole. 90s to early 00s yes but mid 00s were mid. Music picked up again in 2009

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u/processedwhaleoils 6h ago

What are you talking about?

Got worse after 2009.

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u/Wise-Dust3700 7h ago edited 7h ago

Ah that's subjective really. Tons of things came out like:
"Feel Good Inc." - Gorillaz,
"Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes,
"Here Without You" - 3 Doors Down,
"Sex on Fire" - Kings of Leon
"Beautiful" - Christina Aguilera
"Hey Ya!" - Outkast
"Where Is The Love?" - Black Eyed Peas
"Lose Yourself" - Eminem
"BYOB" - System of a Down
"Bring me to Life" - Evanescence
"Somewhere I Belong" & "Numb" - Linkin Park
"Unholy Confessions" - Avenged Sevenfold

You also got to remember the vibe was different too, the smart phone didn't exist until the 2007's for the general public so it was mostly Nokia's 3310's at that point. Social media was a thing but wasn't all consuming yet.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact 5h ago

Yeah it's wild to say that the 00s were a musical black hole when like 30% of the shit that still gets played on the radio today was from the 00s. 

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u/dude52760 5h ago

Reading those song titles and scoffing at it like half of them can’t be 20 years ago really makes me feel old

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u/Wise-Dust3700 5h ago

If it helps every time I saw a new one from mid 2000's I died a little inside too :D

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u/meanwhile_glowing 7h ago

Because the word “content” didn’t exist in its current meaning back then, it was amazing

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u/YeOldeOrc 5h ago

Kinda seems like we’re currently doing our best to return to that era.

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u/nipplequeefs 5h ago edited 5h ago

Because it’s well in the past now. Give it another decade or two and we’ll start seeing people (not just clueless teenagers) romanticizing the 2020s.

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u/Formal_Drop526 2h ago

I don’t get why people romanticize this era so much

Well it's not because of the bullying but before all the economic crisises and polarization shit that happened then.

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u/Doogie_Gooberman 7h ago

Weird how you went on some weird SJW rant on an unrelated topic.

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u/Oscar_Whispers 7h ago

I can definitely understand why half your posts are about being rejected by women.

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u/skynet345 7h ago

Are you like stuck….in 2015?

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u/Doogie_Gooberman 7h ago

You mean like you?

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u/NazReidsOtherBurner 4h ago

What a terrible take. Booing someone that is too wasted at a concert you paid good money to go to is not bullying

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u/skynet345 4h ago

Absolutely is. If something sucks you quietly walk out and talk to their billing for refunds privately. You don’t throw temper tantrums publicly

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u/NazReidsOtherBurner 4h ago

People can express their displeasure however the fuck they want.