Nothing has changed since the 1990s

I notice that nothing has really changed that much since about 1995 or so.  I was just a little kid, so I don't have much memory of the pop culture, but it looks like we are living the same life since the mid 1990s.  The music don't sound much different  - we have the same genres of music and even the dance music has changed since the 1990s.  We still have boy bands, we still have rap music, and you still have this "emo" music, which has been going since the 1990s.  The teen angst such as goth and emo has been going on since the "grunge" era of the 1990s.

It looks like even now, it is very hard to have a "pop culture."  There is nothing really distinctive since about the 1990s - it looks like it is just a continuation of the 1990s.  You still have the The Simpsons and Family Guy, video games are cool, people still dress like slobs, rap music is common, and even "emo" is pretty common, which is something that came out from the 1990s.  You can't really be nostalgic about the 1990s because it is pretty much the same thing as now.

The 2000s decade was basically the 1990s on jolt - the internet became faster and rap music gotten way more popular and glamorized. There is not much original about the 2000s with the exception of reality TV and maybe the iPod, which is  just MP3 players of the late 1990s being evolved into something more marketable and corporate.

I am hoping that the 2010s is going to get a pop culture - it looks like we are trying our best to finally to have a distinctive pop culture that says "hey we are the '10s" instead of "looky here, it is the 90s part 3."

But we have this pattern before - the 1950s was pretty distinctive and the 1960s was pretty distinctive for their time, but even the '60s is just a continuation of the '50s but more emphasis on the beatnick and rock and roll. The '60s and '70s are about the same decade - the 70s was just the '60s on jolt and the same thing with the 2000s.  That is just the 1990s on jolt. But it looks like we are looking for a distinctive decade in the '10s.  I don't know what the culture is but I can see some snippits - it looks like country music is popular so we might be going back to something very old. The internet is starting to get some pretty good pop culture clips, such as Justin Beiber and Shane Dawson...it might be a pretty cool decade when things pop up.

The 2010s is when the internet is pretty much established and all the things of the '90s are started to get dated and old - it is time for something new. The iPad is something that is "screaming 2010s" because it is making things such as laptop and yawn desktops outdated.  Probably some day there is going to be something that makes the 2010s as screaming "70s" as disco and bellbottoms.