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Music began to die (in the Fisherite sense of lack of original, creative output that typified the previous decades, NOT the "le wrong generation" sense that pertains to "quality" itself) around the year 2000, but there still was a lot of scenes to develop, for young people to cling to. Rap was still somewhat new, and developing.

However, by the year 2010, creative output of the music industry had diminished severely, and the process of death of music was almost complete.

The 2010s were the first decade in almost 100 years of recent human culture that had nothing exceptional about it, no zeitgeist, no teenage spirit at all. The only other similar period that I can think of, within the aforementioned last 100 years (history before WW1, and especially before the industrial revolution, flowed in a much more different, and unrelatable to Now, way), with the exception of jazz, blues and the avant-garde, was the one after WW2 and before the explosion of rock.

Popular culture of that time, popular music in particular, had that specific aura of static stagnation. A few years had to pass, perhaps even a dozen or more years, before the youth would actually detect this music as stagnant, and feel as if this music (a commercialized, less live-played-at-a-speakeasy and more pre-recorded-mass-produced-for-jukeboxes take on 1930s pop music) was not relatable to their frenetic teenage experience. Additionally, a strong counter-culture was overdue after being suppressed for almost 2 decades, because of the monoculture-inducing nature of common struggle that was the domain of the Great Depression and WW2. This is what gave birth to rock'n'roll. Stagnation led to a creative explosion, fueled by the ever-present urge of the youth to listen to something maybe a little different than what their so clearly uncool mom and pop listen to.
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>Duude Fukuyama was like sooo wrong, the history hasn't ended!