re: America is resetting back to normal again

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Probably because we grew up in one of the golden ages of our country

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That's another fun debate.

But there has been a lot of content about music in particular and what was popular v. what they remember being popular, so I went to the 90s to pull the top singles from some years:

1992

Tears in Heaven breaks the pop streak at 6, then Under the Bridge at 8....but you don't hit non-pop again until 15 (I guess) with Achy Breaky heart.

1993

Top 10 dominated by pop. #11 is Gangsta rap and then more pop.

1994

Ace of Base with 3 in the top 10

I think you have to get to 15 to get out of pop, with some Cougar Mellencmp....then more pop.

1995

I'll give Gangsta's Paradise to non-pop (although debatable), but then it's dominated by pop until Blues Traveler at 14...then more pop dominating or a while

1996

pop pop pop. Bone Thugs with Crossroads at 7, then more pop until Ironic at 13...again some rap gets sprinkled in but pop dominates

I don't have time to go back but I bet this repeats well into the 80s.

I have heard, and I haven't done the research myself, this goes into the 60s during the classic rock era.

Thank you for your worthless take on this. Your contrarian attitude on most everything in life is duly noted. Go frick yourself.

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Party rap was really only one or two songs. Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" and LMFAO - "Party Rock Anthem" Both of those are pop as hell, too. It was not a whole movement/era like he thinks it was

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It’s called "Recession pop“

Basically a whole era of party music after 08 that was about taking $20 to the club and not paying rent. See Pitbull

Once millennials got old, strung out on Oxy and fent poisoned the Coke supply the era was over

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Your contrarian attitude

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Is my take even contrarian? By pointing out Millennials' love of nostalgia and predicting this will fade?

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Basically a whole era of party music after 08 that was about taking $20 to the club and not paying rent. See Pitbull

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I also forgot about that white dude rapping about thrift store shopping to go clubbing. Forget his name, but I know he has severe TDS now.

Still, that was not era or generationally defining, unlike other moments in music.

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Wasn’t it the theme song to a major movie?

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Yes

That mid-90s era gets real tough with some of the "sanitized" versions of music that was clearly created for a mass audience and didn't reflect the genre, but I gave it to the "non-pop" side in most cases (Crossroads, too).

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Nostalgia bait fads that will pass once the novelty wears off

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I know your shtick is to troll incessantly, but must you always be a wet blanket?

I feel like after the financial crisis, so many big brands became so consumed with shareholder value and margins that they forgot about customers. In Baton Rouge, the guy who had the rights to all of the pizza hut franchises around here went bankrupt, in part, due to having investments in a ponzy scheme. So, all of the BR area pizza huts went out of business at the same time. What replaced them were the takeout stores.

When I was a kid, pizza hut was a special occasion food. We ate IN pizza hut after big little league games, on birthdays, etc. It was a treat. You could get AYCE on the lunch buffet, or you could get a personal pan pizza all to yourself.

When all of the pizza huts went locations disappeared, they were replaced with little strip mall kiosks that were to-go only. We never ordered from there because we could get cheaper takeout pizza elsewhere. So, for in-person pizza, we switched to Cici’s (not nearly as good) or Rotolo’s (meh vibes and much more expensive). Those places didn’t “feel” special, so pizza stopped being a special occasion food, and Pizza Hut stopped even being a real option.

The same thing happened with McDonald’s after they got rid of the play places. It wasn’t just us growing up. I have a young niece and nephew, and the options for the sorts of fun, special, child focused restaurants for us to enjoy birthdays and stuff with them are relatively few in number. We would love for them to go run around in a play place for 20 minutes. They, by and large, don’t exist anymore. Parents are expected to supervise their children or have them in planned organized activities for every waking moment of the day, but most of the legit kid-friendly spaces are all gone.

I hope businesses remember that the customer experience comes first, that kids and parents matter, that the pizza huts went restaurant experience was valuable, and that it leads them to success.

Plus, more kid-friendly spaces hopefully means the kids will all be there and not at the places my childless self would rather be without a bunch of screaming kids running around.

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1975-1995 was basically hell on earth in America with the highest rates of basically most societal pathologies. I bet you don't see this era in this way.

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i know, i know. you always fall back on this nonsense concept that somehow America in 2026 is vastly improved from the 70s-90s. sure man, whatever you say.

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they love classic rock

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When classic rock hit in the 60s us sophisticated students all had the opinion: 'Today's rock music is great! But the older kids thought Elvis was great and that style sucks. So, someday the next generation will think our rock music sucks, too.' Boy, were we wrong.