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Music Now: Living In The Present

June 5th, 2008

Somewhere between seeing the Glow In The Dark tour two weeks ago and M.I.A. last night I realized that this is a great time for music. I’m not gonna lie, when the millennium rolled around and popular music moved from boy bands to rap-rock I was very scared. Boy bands were pretty bad but Limp Bizkit was absolutely rock bottom.

But if I’ve learned anything from celebrity fall-outs it’s that you need to hit rock bottom before you can recover. 50 Cent came in and made hip-hop so much more competitive and all of a sudden it was sharp again. Then Kanye rolled in casually and pushed everyone even further. We had shows like The O.C. (on Much!) that gave a huge audience instant access to some genuinely good indie music, and commercials have been pushing that trend even further. (I discovered The Walkmen through Saturn and I don’t care). Feist is one of the biggest artists in the world right now which just goes to show how far popular music has come.

I feel like one day we’ll all be looking back at this stretch of time as one of the best to ever happen to music.

Posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pm by and is filed under Music & Videos.

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