Three, two, one this is a very special moment. Its the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. Please welcome no doubt thats great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes lenny bruce is not afraid ill always remember new years eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing its the end of the world as we know it by r. E. M. Its the end of the world as we know it its the end of the world as we know it i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. Happy new year so we wake up, its 2000, were all alive, and were still in the middle of teen pop mania. Dont want to hear you aint nothing but a heartache boy bands were selling so many albums. Every little thing you do never seems enough for you this is the biggest year in pop Music History in terms of sales. Britney spears selling 1. 3 million copies of oops i did it again. In the first week. Oops i did it again i played with your heart got lost in the game oh baby baby everybodys falling in love with boy bands and girl groups. But then Justin Timberlake leaves in sync. I want to rock your body with his debut album j. T. Established what his sound would be and its instantly appealing to a pop audience and also an r b audience. Cry me a river cry me a river you know, Justin Timberlake leaving n sync becomes the model for what can be done. Yes its your girl you talk about people who are always going to be bigger than their group, that was beyonce. You ready . She puts out a soul album in 2003. First single is crazy in love. Its got this incredible sample. That catches your ear. Beyonce hasnt opened her mouth yet and youre into that song. I remember being asked once what do you think, christina or britney . He i said beyonce. Got me looking so crazy right now crazy in love. Thats how it begins. It seemed like almost overnight she game a kind of icon. She became a deeply respected figure. Beyonce in the early 2000s the industry was so dominated by pop sensations and booming cd sales that they were totally oblivious to the new generation that didnt think music was something you had to pay for. Using a pc to download music is one of the hottest of todays computer trends. That has the Recording Companies up in arms and heading to court. At the center of their dispute is a music sharing Internet Service known as napster. In the late 90s and early 2000s the Music Industry grew complacent. People had come to them and said you have to start investing in the technology that comes after the compact disc. And they just refused to do it. Some of rock and rolls bad boys are picking a fight this morning with the internet site napster. Com. The lawsuits began when metallica heard on the radio a song that they hadnt released yet. Metallica was like, what . April 14th metallica filed a lawsuit against napster for basically encouraging people to steal and trade our music illegally. We started this thing called exmetallicafans. Org. Were asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica. Im glad youre an exmetallica fan because i dont want you to be a fan of ours if thats your attitude. And i cant speak to the other bands but i embraced file sharing. If you have napster, please. Our band was plucked out of obscurity and given a career because of napster. As for me i wish that i was anywhere with anyone. If anyone so suddenly i had a platform for sharing my music, to the frustration of a label i was on. Napster has built a multimilliondollar business based on people copying files to millions and millions of people they dont know. Theres a way the technology can be adapted to the benefit of all of the parties involved, the artists, the industry, and the users. Napster should have been an early version of itunes. Its kind of a tragedy it didnt happen back then. Today the u. S. Court of appeals ruled napster is infringing on copyrighted music, in essence letting its users steal songs. Music label executives absolutely didnt want any kind of itunesstyle distribution infrastructure that would fit with the internet because they were terrified of unbundling the single from the album. So for a long time theyve been able to take one hit song like complicated. Tell me why did you have to go and make things so complicated if that song comes out in the late 90s its going to move 20 million albums at 10 each. Five or six years later its no longer going to move 20 million albums. Its going to move 20 million songs at 99 cents each. So youve just lost 90 of your revenue. Cd sales have dropped almost 1 4 in three years. Labels absolutely did not want this to happen but ultimately they were powerless to stop it. Red lobsters new weekday five days. S here five deals. 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And during that time it has not only established itself as americas most popular popular music, it has altered our language. The oscar goes to its hard out here for a pimp you know what . I think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp. Hiphop seeps into everything. Its in commercials. Then its in soundtracks. Its being used as bumper music in sports. And fashion and shoes and everything. Ive never done it with a machine. It was easy. We in the hood. We like in that moment a lot of rappers were celebrating what they had accomplished. Rappers like jermaine dupri, jayz and ja rule were saying to the world can you believe this . This is about survival and surviving racism in america and were going to share this with the world. Uhoh another episode to everybody thats living it up we say hiphop is sort of no longer the bratty kid on the block. Its the predominant music. And then what really takes it over the top is a young rapper from detroit. Were going to have a problem here. You act like you never seen a white person before in 2000 eminem puts out the Marshall Mathers lp, Marshall Mathers being his real name. And suddenly eminem is the biggest star in hiphop bar none. All you other slim shadies are just imitating eminem came from a white workingclass background and those are the stories he told. It just put him on a different level because he brought his own authenticity to the game. Dj. I saw 8 mile in times square Opening Night and had to sit in front of the theater. It was one of the most satisfying movie experiences ive ever had. I mean, listen, on lose yourself when that thing comes through your speakers in a giant Movie Theater thats a big moment. The oscar goes to eminem for lose yourself. The music the moment you better never let it go its not quite purple rain but it was pretty damn good. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better lose yourself in the 2000s rappers werent content to be musicians. They had to be actors and producers and labor bosses themselves. So in the video for in the club the producers dr. Dre and eminem have set up a laboratory. We see 50 cent doing thinks exercise routine and then it pans into this nightclub environment where hes chatting with models and drinking expensive champagne. So what theyre really doing is perfecting the science of the club banger. You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub if you have kids now, you know, its probably rap theyre using to drive you up the wall. And the big star in rap now is 50 cent, or fitty cent. However you want to say it. Your grandmother is absolutely getting down to in da club. Shes calling it in the club but shes getting down to it. I mean, that was everywhere. It was in a commercial. Sounds like hes integrated his hit in da club. Extraordinary. One of the biggest differences between the 90s and 2000s in terms of hiphop is this idea of business. 33yearold jayz is the reigning king of rap. He owns his own record label, clothing line, and movie production company, generating almost half a billion dollars a year in sales. Allow me to reintroduce myself my name is hove h to theov i used to move slow plates with jayz youre watching a hiphop artist grow up from street tales to someone who has money, who has fame, whos traveling in very different circles now. Piece of paper bearing my name got the hottest chick in the game wearing my chain thats right, hove even if he was rapping about some of the same things everybody else was rapping about, street life, moving drugs, it was in such a unique way that he was almost inventing a new language. I really loved the black album. For jayz to be the first one to get rick rubin to produce in such a long time shows you how special jay is as an artist. I figured maybe wed art a capella with if youre having girl problems i feel bad four son i got 99 problems but a bitch aint one. Hit me. Fools that want to make sure my caskets closed yeah, thats money. Rick rubin created so many classic records. The beastie boys and rundmc taking a break beat and mixing it with an ac dc guitar stab. Thats rick rubin 101. I pull over to the side of the road i heard son, do you know what im stopping you for because im young and im black and my hats real low do i look like a mind reader sir i dont know jayz represented you you can have real longevity in hiphop. For the longest time new york had been the center of the world in hiphop. The south for the most part hadnt made itself heard. That started to change in the 2000s. And youre getting outkast. And outkast is amazing. Outkast became raps beatles in the 2000s because we found both but particularly andre becoming more obsessed with a kind of adventurous landscape of music. Yeah im scared as a dog hiphop knew about outkast. But then they come out with an album speakerboxx and the love below. And they have this song called hey ya. One, two, tree, four. Over show. Its barely a hiphop song really. Im not sure what it is. But its got this kind of frothy 60s vibe. It sounds like something motown might have put out when they were doing their sound of young america. Hey ya hey ya next thing you know everyone is singing this one line shake it like a polaroid picture shake it shake it polaroid was the instant camera, and the picture came out, and for some strange reason as the image was forming people would do this. They would shake it. As if that was going to make it happen faster. Sew says that line in the song and suddenly everyones doing that. You had this cultural moment that everybody feels they node to be part of. Now you know youve really tapped into something and thats what outkast is. If youre going to do anything, do it 100 . Dont pull the thing out unless youre planning to bang. Basically what it its saying. Yeah, you just go online, or give them a call anytime. You dont say. Yep. 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Well, then music had a lot took the in opposition to. The dixie chicks are the top country touring act of the year despite the firestorm unleashed by their words during the first days of the war in iraq. Were ashamed that the president of the United States is from texas. When Natalie Maines said were ashamed the president of the United States is our president their career took a beating. They used a tractor and their feet to smash their cds. Look no further than the uproar over the dixie chicks. How they could say, im ashamed the president s from texas . Come on, man. Say it. They were questioning something that you were just supposed to accept. And it was women doing it no less. I think they are the dixie twits. These are the dumbest bimbos with all due respect these are callow foolish women who deserve to be slapped around. Were going to boycott you for playing that if you dont stop playing it. Maam, that was the last one youre going to hear. Country radio overnight turns its back on the dixie chicks. As a result of statements made by members of the dixie chicks at a concert two Radio Networks banned the dixie chicks from their play lists at a chain level. In a way they were more daring than any punk band. Shepherds bush. Well return to the scene of the crime. They took on the establishment that wanted to own them. And they refused to knuckle under. I thought id Say Something brand new and just say just so you know were ashamed the president of the United States is from texas. [ cheers and applause ] weve asked artists for decades to be barometers of culture and be voices of dissent. And in the wake of 9 11 it was just seen as a bridge too far. I waited till i saw the sun people wanted escapism at the time because there was a lot to escape. So we were listening to norah jones and jack johnson. Da, da, da, da, da la, da, da, da, da, da and coldplay. When yellow came out a lot of the hipster alternate v alternative kids were like i love this, and i was one of them. Your skin your skin goes. Turns to something beautiful it felt great. Its like heres radiohead and u2 put together in a popfriendly package thats catchy rock music. I want to run through the halls of my high school i want to scream at the top of my lungs john mayer was this virtuosic guitar player that wrote these sentimental love songs. If you want love well make it swim in a deep sea of blankets your bodys a wonderland i use my hands in the 2000s rock itself becomes number and weird ly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. Post9 11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. Ive been down to the bottom of every bottle nickelback, they had bigger hits than everybody. Everybodys welcome in the nickelback club. Weve got a big club. Yeah, yeah a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and its almost like it lost its will to fight. Unless youre talking about green day. Dont want to be an American Idiot you cant undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bushs america came from green day. All across the alien nation everythings meant to be okay it was kind of like a rock opera. You had to listen to it from front to back because it told the entire story of what was going on in the decade. Wake me up when september ends the fear of terrorism. The media. The wars. People being sent off to fight. Here comes the rain again rock wasnt all that surprising in the 2000s. So when you got Something LikeAmerican Idiot it was wow, this is unexpected. This is shaking things up a little bit. Wake me up when september ends if ywhen you brush or floss, you dont have to choose between healthy gums and strong teeth. Complete protection from parodontax has 8 designed benefits for healthy gums and strong teeth. Complete protection from parodontax. My time is thin, but so is my lawn. Now theres scotts thickr lawn 3in1 solution. With a soil improver seed and fertilizer to feed now yard time is our time. This is a scotts yard. Its nice. You got this woo its coming up. In the early 2000s we come to recognize the idea of producers as artists. Theyre no longer relegated to the background. One of my favorite timbaland moments is watching him play jayz dirt off your shoulder for the first time. Thats the best. You got that . Timbaland really pushed the envelope. Its like futuristic music. Is it worth it let me work it zip it appear reverse it a lot of that music, it was space age driven. Im bringing sexy back them other dont know how to act odd sounds that reflect his own inner ear vision its too late to apologize its too late timbaland was a little more technologically dense and ethereal, whereas pharrell wasnt as out there. He did like dance tracks. Its getting hot in here so take off all your clothes it was a little more gritty. It was very intricate but very rhythmically driven. All the girls got to be like this pop stars figure out you need hiphop cred and you need a hiphop producer. I aint no hollaback girl whats interesting about the 2000s su had a group of hiphop producers who were crossing over and topping the pop charts. Kanye is another one. You know, hes producing and working with jayz and alicia keys and ludacris and janet jackson. But you know, in there he wants to be his own star. Sew releases his own album, the College Dropout. The first single for College Dropout was a song called through the wire. I spit it through the wire kanye west gets into a car accident in los angeles and in the hospital with his jaw wired shut he records the song. I drink a mouse for breakfast. Its essentially him rapping about how badly he wants to be a rapper. God saved my life. So he has me here for a reason. College dropout was a cool first album. Drop over in your new whip there are some great singles on ther but late registration to me is when it all came together. Thats an incredible record. Ive got to testify come up in the spot looking extra fly he did what the rock star used to, do which was to indulge his narcissistic fantasies through the medium of music. Before the day you die you gonna touch the sky rappers werent really doing it. Musically it was brilliant. What is the narrative of the 2000s . Well, its the backpackwearing dork like Mark Zuckerberg who becomes a billionaire. And kanye west is the Music Industry version of that. My greatest pain in life is i will never be able to see me perform so you are welcome to know a pleasure i will never have kanye was a rock star. But he also makes it safe for rappers to be vulnerable. Its positive rap. Hes not cussing every other sentence and not talking about shooting people up. Hes talking about real things what kanye does is sort of bring in a new generation of hiphop figures and you can see the difference going forward. I said i said baby we could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it drake took the kanye west blueprint. Im going to bare my soul and my feelings on a record. Best that i ever had best i ever had best i ever had it wasnt just hiphop. R b had been doing this for a long time in a really kind of personal way. These are my confessions just when i thought indigenous say all i could say. Ushers confessions was deeply personal and relatable. He just laid it all out there. Tell it all he has the moves and the style, and i think that he is a big hope for people at that time, that like heres a brother thats really doing it. I think that you shall let it burn we had trey songz and chris brown, usher. But the superstars of r b are the women. Absolutely. I keep on falling in and out of love with you alicia keys, uber talent. Sings, composes, and plays. Shes the total package. No one, no one no one can get in the way of what im feeling later r b becomes much more rhythmic than that flowing as the traditional r b song all the Single Ladies and beyonce understood better than anybody how to make r b for the hiphop generation. Up in the club when they first saw the Single Ladies video it was like, oh, my god, i cant learn it fast enough. Pop it a little bit. Pop it. Okay. Like stick it. If you like it then you should have put a ring on it she was a woman speaking for other women. And that was so welcome. One by one even two by two everybody in the club let me show you how we do rihanna comes along and shes much more r b than she is pop. Shes got the sort of caribbean feel in her music. And theres something really fresh about her. Its a thief in the night to come appear grab you it can creep up inside you and consume you rihanna had this incredibly ambitious idea of what pop music was. And kept redefining herself as the edgiest, nastiest, most sophisticated pop star out there. I bet its raining more than every now that have each other you can stand under my umbrella umbrella. I dont think theres probably a person in the whole world that doesnt know that song and wasnt Walking Around going eh, eh, eh, for like months at a time. Stand under my umbrella, ella, ella eh, eh, eh toward the end of the decade with artists like rihanna, the danceable riffs of hiphop led into r b and pop. And hiphop became bigger and bigger and bigger. It became the top. [ cheers and applause ] verizon got us vip tickets three feet away from Justin Timberlake. And to say vip is an understatement, because i sawww Justin Timberlake. He literally looked into the phone and started dancing well, he was already dancing locked eyes and continued dancing. 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And thats the case in new york. No ones thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. But after 9 11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. She said ive never been so down after 9 11 the city was burning. It was smoldering. Sunlight vulnerability, anxiety. All this became how the country felt. It needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of promise that young bands can deliver. They are the most important ban in the world for what they inspire other people to do. Literally the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the 90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of other acts. She can wait she cant wait. She captain wait the first ones to break after the strokes in terms of new york artists is interpol and yeah yeah yeahs. These are strange people. Theyre countercultural by nature. Karen oh, shes this violent, swaggering rock boy. And this heartbroken teary rock girl. Epistraight and maps is one of those tracks that launched a thousand young female singers in their bedroom somewhere. They dont love you like i love you wait they dont love you like i love you. So you have this resurgence of rock but you also have this resurgence of brooklyn and indie music. Please welcome tv on the radio. Tv on the radio, they were a multiethnic, multiracial band coming out of the Brooklyn Rock scene. You know, they were scholars of music. You never know they made very proggy but also very punky rock that sounded like nothing else that had ever been done. Daft punk is playing at my house, my house lcd sound system is maybe the most brooklyn band that has ever emerged from brooklyn. Ill show you the ropes they were a huge success of partly because of James Murphys ability to make pristine electronic music that still had a soul in it. Were all friends tonight what you start to see is not a genre of music or a trend. Its a scene. And although they were not a new york band arcade fire connected spiritually to that moment. Children wake up hold your mistake up arcade fire was this big anthemic rock band that made these songs you just wanted to holler along with. And to me it felt like the moment indie rock crossed over into something bigger. Holiday, oh holiday and the best time of the year its the first time you had indie bands soundtracking commercials for Mainstream National products. In part because everyone is trying to figure out how do i make money now that no one will pay for my albums. One two three take my hand and count to p because you look so fine i really want to make you mine historically there had been some wariness about selling your music to advertisers. It was seen as selling out. In the 2000s that totally disappeared. Rock with me rock with me theres all these songs that became iconic primarily through their use in ipod commercials. One, two, three, four tell me what youre looking for now indie culture was cool and you could market yourself as part of this new indie global community. Indie rock and roll is what i want youve got the killers or you got kings of leon. And of course the white stripes. They all step into the role of capital r rock star. Come fight them off. A seven nation army couldnt hold me back people thought the strokes were going to save rock. You felt there was going to be a movement forward. And for a while it worked. But ultimately it didnt really change the musical landscape. You can probably say the white stripes or arcade fire are the last really big rock band in the classical sense. And the states come for my blood going to go back home so what happened . In the early 2000s the electric guitar started to be replaced by the song sequencing software and you started to see the future is not rock music. The groundbreaking artist whos going to completely change what we think good music sounds like is not going to be playing an electric guitar. What . im here to steal your car because, well, thats my job. What . What . . What . laughing what . . What . what . [crash] what . haha, it happens. And if youve got cutrate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. So get allstate. And be better protected from mayhem. Like me. Stand up to chronic migraine with botox®. What if you had fewer headaches and migraines a month . Botox® prevents headaches and migraines before they even start. Botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox® injections take about 15 minutes in your Doctors Office and are covered by most insurance. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. 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She was somebody who wanted to combine although elements into really aggressive, hardhitting pop music. Suddenly it was no longer enough to wear a pretty gown on the red carpet. You had to make art. You had to make a statement. You asked me if my music was distracted by my sexuality. If i was a guy, and i was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand grabbing my crotch and talking about how i make music because i love fast cars and [ bleep ] girls, youd call me a rock star. Lady gaga is a female empowerment role model. This is just the beginning of girls running the world. Baby youre a fire work we have katy perry, shakira, nicki minaj. You have taylor swift just coming into her own. Walking the streets with you and your worn out jeans taylor swift is a songwriter. At an impossibly early age she comes up with what might be the single of the decade, you belong with me. If you could see that im the one who understands you and that just straps her career to a rocket. You belong with me, you belong with me we saw someone like taylor swift become a huge sensation because of her myspace page, posting her music on her page, and look where she is now. Its pretty incredible. By the end of that decade, artists would make their own music and put it up on myspace, and all of a sudden you could have a career. In the internet age, its become a do it yourself operation. Hang your star on youtube and see how brightly it shines. Justin bieber was the first of the youtube kids. He was using the new tools of the internet to really do an end run around the traditional industry. And i was like baby baby baby oh like baby baby baby no in the 2000s, the Music Industry was undergoing a massive shift with all of the technological change and the fact that the price of music had effectively been ground down to zero. Im standing outside where i used to buy my cds, a store that is shuttered and shut down as you can tell, like so many other music Stores Across the country. By the end of the decade, the music business was falling off a cliff. It seems like all it was gone, reduced to rubble. The shutter this weekend of virgins last two stores in manhattan and hollywood marks the death of a once booming chain, and another nail in the coffin of the music cd. By the mid2000s, music labels realized that youtube, my space and File Sharing Software was the way people were discovering new music. So what do you do . You get all of the people youve heard online together in one act and you charge 130 to see it. This proved to be a very successful model. The one that really set it off was bonaroo and coachella. So you came here from england for this . For the festival, man. Yeah. Why not . Its coachella. The same generation wants to be somewhere in a field with that peer, enjoying the live music experience. Ive seen about 40 different bands, any type of music you could imagine. At music festivals, there would always be this deejay tent, and over the years, that tent kept getting bigger and bigger. The super star djs, diplo, david guetta, cascade, these guys are pulling in millions as headliners. Hiphop stars are becoming rock stars. Deejays are becoming rock stars. The only people who arent becoming rock stars are rock stars. Pop. The idea of just standing there and staring at someone on stage is a 20th century idea. Whereas in the 21st century its more interactive. Its more about us as an organi organism. Come on. Clap your hands. Clap your hands. Clap your hands, yall. Clap your hands. In the 2000s, we saw an industry that seemed like it would never change. We saw it be forced to change. Ive got a feeling online distribution of music broke down the barriers of taste and suddenly everyone was listening to everything. That tonights gonna be a good good night with the help of a computer, the past is just cool stuff you could discover. And thats what a whole generation of new music makers do. Yes, the 2000s are the age of the machine, but that doesnt mean theres not a search for the soul inside the machine. One, two, three. Tonights the night lets live it up i got my money here we go here we go easy come, easy go now were on top well be doing for tv what f. M. Did for radio. There are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. We like to call them tastefully smutty. A group thats never had any problems saying how they feel, u2. What are your dreams . To rule the world. Michael jackson is the man of the 80s. Music to a beat and talk. Its rap music. I might as well speak my mind heavy metal. It glorifies sex and violence. It hates authorities. And adolescent boys love it. This weird beastly presentation that was birthed in th