Going back to the roots

I have a feeling that the 2010s decade is starting to get a pop culture and it is starting to have a "roots Americana influence" to it.  I didn't really see the Americana influence in the first place, and I had made some predictions about the pop culture of the 2010s.  The 2010s will definetely be different than the 1990s and the 2000s - anything that was cool in the 1990s and the 2000s will be not cool in the 2010s.  That means any form of feminism and girl power, iPods and MP3, the glamorization of the internet, social networking sites, grunge culture, hip-hop culture, and Japanese import stuff.  Sorry, Pokemon is not cool.  The 1990s and the 2000s were very similar to each other; it was a rising ecomomy and an increasing, global economy along with the decline of our morals and values.

I thought the 2010s will be another repeat of the 1980s but with a different twist.  You'll have synthesizers in pop music, bright colored clothing, and more conservative values.  It is starting to become like the 1980s and all of these claims are true, but it doesn't really have the same vibe as the 1980s.  I was not alive during the 1980s and I only got the concept of life during the digital era of the 1990s and the 2000s, so there might be something that I haven't really seen that was before that era.

The 1990s and 2000s were very loose and multicultural, globalized, and it seems like America was starting to lose it's idenity.  The climax of the 1990s and 2000s era was around 2008 with the election of Barack Obama.  We thought a democrat will bring back the 1990s but it looks like we are not even going back to the 1960s, we are going back to the 1930s and 1940s, where the world basically sucked.  It seems like with Obama, we are getting the same package as FDR trying to add to the New Deal and the Great Society with new things such as health care reform and the transition of America to a welfare, European style country letting China take over.

But in the 2010s, it looks like a new era is coming and I have a feeling that we are going back to the "roots." This looks like we are starting to restore the American culture that has been lost since the 1980s, but even farther than that, probably the 1940s and the 1950s.  We are trying to bring back the cowboy and the roots culture, the cultural icon of what we say "old school America."  Country music is starting to become as mainstream as hip-hop music and it is even beating the rappers.  TV shows such as American Pickers are trying to bring back the roots in America.  Brett Favre was another bring back of American roots in 2009 as well.

I can see a change in what we consider as sexy in the last 10 years.  Throughout the 2000s, the idea of sexy was the buttcrack hanging out, which I did not find attractive.  The grungy "muffin top" does not look that good along with the "tramp stamp" on top of it.  Then about 2004, we were starting to have an emphasis on the boobs.  That changed in 2010 when the legs were starting to comeback but the tops were getting more modest.  Forever 21 is trying to bring back the modesty and in 2012, the sexy girl look is a girl with a sun dress.  Girls wearing dresses haven't been the standard since the 1960s and it looks like we are starting to have a comeback of the traditional gender roles.  I can also see a comeback of modesty as well in etiquette - we are talking with the "Yo what's up" for about 15 years that we need to have a comeback of manners.

The American world is coming back and I want to see it.