90s Music and Movies REALLY WERE Better – Here’s Why

The 2020s aren't over yet, btw

I'm 62 years old and think the 90s is the worst musical decade of my lifetime. Especially for funk/soul. Thank god we had gfunk and Maxwell's UHS or the whole decade would have been a waste.

The 80s had bangers though!! Not talking about hip hop but everything else!!!

Actually being a 1990 baby, I grew up in the 2000s remembering a lot from my kid/toddler years… A LOOOOOOOT I DO REMEMBER VERY WELL!!! Later on in the 2000s, I was a teen looking back on old VHS recordings of Yo MTV Rapz + early Rap City episodes my Pops had leftover thinking, "I wondered what it was like being a teen in 1990, bet that time was fun ASF and most memorable for those that were teens" 🤔
9:55 Sticking to this statement 💯

I was 9 in 2000. It's hard to say I really know what 90's life was like.

I agree with most of what you have to say especially regarding 90’s music and movies. However whilst streaming has launched more great TV shows it has also killed them too. The streaming services are obsessed with throwing massive stars at TV projects and if they do not immediately turn into block busters they kill them. This issue is so bad now that I refuse to watch a new show until there is a few seasons out due to the disappointment I’ve felt having a show cancelled mid way through a story…. They also tend to trend chase, genres like family friendly sci fi has taken a huge slide in this generation….

Dashboard Confessionals was the end

Excellent video as usual. There’s something you touched on that I think is the bigger underlying issue than any perceived quality difference between decades: Curation. I don’t think media is inherently better or worse now than in the 90s. There’s just SO MUCH of it that it’s become very difficult to find the media you love the most. The barrier to entry for making and releasing art gets lower every day, and that’s a double edged sword. It’s easier than ever to produce absolute trash, but on the flip side it’s easier than ever for truly brilliant creatives to make and distribute their masterpieces. I think the worst AND the best art is being made right now. There’s just so much noise that we perceive it all to be inherently worse.

I think another important piece is that profit has become pretty much the only motivation for mainstream media. It always has been a main incentive, but damn it is like nothing else matters at all today. Conventional wisdom says that the best thing sells. But today it seems that media companies are seeing that optimization sells more than quality. And good luck convincing any big media company that increased quality is worth sacrificing a single dollar.

TL;DR: It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. Capitalism ruins everything.

Everything is disposable today. Watch movies today and they're using so much music from the 90's to set the mood while 90's movies play original artists we still listen to today while in 15 years are we really going to still know the words and remember Drake or Taylor Swift songs written today.

The only point I will make when it comes to comparing the finale of Seinfeld to the finale of Game of Thrones: You can't really properly make that comparison as Seinfeld was broadcast on OTA TV and wasn't part of some premium cable channel like HBO back in the day. It would have been something to compare it to if it were comparing something like The Sopranos to Game of Thrones as both are premium subscription content. In comparison to how much money was potentially made between the two, Game of Thrones was likely to be far more profitable than Seinfeld.

Golden age of cars
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Your love/hate graph was poorly drawn! If you loved J.Lo as much as you hated Office Romance, and you loved the male lead as much as you hated the movie, then you obviously love the actors more than the movie! So the movie was bearable, maybe even enjoyable for you! LOL

I think it's relative. It all just depends. For those who grew up in the era, they're always going to feel it's better because it was connected to a more innocent, carefree time versus later in life when it's mostly about responsibility and work, and life becomes much more cynical as you get older. Because of course those who've grown up in the 2000s are going to think their time is better because it's newer, just like we probably thought the same way versus the 60s and the 70s. While yes there are definite advantages to this time, but there are trade-offs that balance everything out. There are things that are really bad about the way life is now, but are better in a lot of ways as well, but then there are trade-offs that are really negative.