Transcripts For CNNW The 2000s 20200202

Three, two, one this is a very special moment. 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 nsync. 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 nsync 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 solo 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 already hooked on that song. I looked so deep in your eyes i remember being asked once, christina or britney . 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. I cant speak for the other bands, but i embraced file sharing. If you got it off napster, please our band was plucked out of obscurity and given a career because of napster. 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. The 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 onequarter in just three years. Thats an awful lot of lost business. Labels absolutely did not want this to happen but ultimately they were powerless to stop it. 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Its believable, i suppose, that just about the time im becoming aware of hiphop culture, it is literally coming of age. Hiphop has been around, i discover, for some 25 years now. 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. Were seeing hiphop seep into everything, right . Its in soda commercials. Its in soundtracks. Its being used as bumper music in sports. And fashion and shoes and everything. Ive never done it with a machine. Well, its 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 hip happens 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. 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. Suddenly the biggest star in hiphop is eminem, bar none. All you other slim shadies are just imitating whos the real shady please stand up 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. Deejay. 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 his 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 mama i got what you need 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 the ov 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 for you 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 hiphop 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 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. 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. 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. So he says that line in the song, and suddenly everyones doing that. You had this cultural moment that everybody feels they need 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. American girls and american hi were glad you came in, whats on your mind . Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy, connect to the xfi gateway. What about internet speeds that keep up with my gaming . Lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. What about wireless data options for the family . Of course, you can customize and save. Can you save me from this conversation . That we cant do, but come in and see what we can do. Were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover. At your local xfinity store today. American girls and american guys well always stand up and salute well always recognize after september 11th we saw this resurgence of patriotism. You know, real reembrace of the American Flag from Country Music and the mainstream nashville community. Youll be sorry that you messed with the u. S. Of a. Toby keith was the ultimate example of all of that. Because well put a boot in your ass its the american way with all the genres reacting to 9 11, the war, country was probably the most literal and the most outspoken about it. I pledge allegiance to the flag and if that bothers you well thats too bad and you say we shouldnt worry about bin laden have you forgotten in music there was no opposition to that message but when the quote unquote war on terror began they were talking about invading countries. Well, then music had a lot to act 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 so ashamed of our president right now, their career took a severe beating. Some protesters used a track for and their feet to smash the groups cds. If you want to feel good oldfashioned pride, look no further than the dixie chicks. How can you say youre ashamed the president is from texas . Come on, man. They were questioning something you were just supposed to accept, and they were women, no less. These are the dumbest bill bows. Callow, foolish women who deserve to be slapped around. Were going to boycott you for playing it. Maam, thats the last one youre going to hear. Country music turns its back on the dixie chicks. As a result of statements made by members of the dixie chicks they are banned in a way they were more daring than a punk band. We 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 play something brandnew and just say, just so you know, were ashamed the president of the United States is from texas. 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 alternative kids were like i love this, and i was one of them. Your skin 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. And if you want love well make it he was huge. Swim in a deep sea of blankets your bodys a wonderland i use my hands in the 2000s rock itself becomes numb and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. Post9 11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. And ive been wrong ive been down to the bottom of every bottle nickelback, they had bigger hits than anybody. 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. Welcome to a new kind of tension 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 Like American Idiot it was wow, this is unexpected. This is shaking things up a little bit. Wake me up when september ends its coming up. Do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading . Legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. Legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. Visit legacybox. Com today, and get 40 off. 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. Im the best there is. You got that . Timbaland really pushed the envelope. Its very much black futuristic music. Is it worth it let me work it that music, a lot of 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. I said 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. I said 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 is you had a group of hiphop producers who were crossing over and topping 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. So he releases his first 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. Somebody order pancakes 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. I told her to drop over in your new whip theres some great singles there. 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 stars 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 bringing a new generation of hiphop figures and you can see the difference going forward. I said i said baby you my apex 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 i had said all i could say ushers confessions was deeply personal and relatable. He just laid it all out there. I got to 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 should 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. Oh my god. 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, not written as flowing as the traditional r b song. All the Single Ladies and beyonce understood better than anybody how to make r b for a hiphop generation. Put your hands up up in the club i feel like everyone remembers where they were when they first saw the Single Ladies video. It was like, oh my god, i cant learn the dance 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 oh oh oh oh oh oh 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. A thief in the night come and 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. Its raining more than ever know that well still 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. Hey there im lonnie from lonnies lumber. If you need lumber wood, lonnies is better than good. We got oak, cherry, walnut, and more. And we also have the best selection of plywood clattering in the state. Hey highpitched laughter man dang woodchucks wood clattering stop chuckin that wood with geico, the savings keep on going. Just like this sequel. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Through the 90s if you were a band from new york you could count on getting laughed out of the room pretty much anywhere else in the country. New york was just a place where rock and roll was thought of as dead. In the 2000s the predominant music generally is hiphop. 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. Last night she said i feel so down after 9 11 the city was burning. It was smoldering. Sunlight vulnerability, anxiety. All this became how the country felt. We needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. Theyre the most important band in the world for what they may inspire other people to do. Much in 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 cant wait she cant 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. And maps is one of those tracks that launched a thousand young female singers in their bedroom somewhere. Wait 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. 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 partly because of James Murphys ability to make pristine electronic music that still had a soul in it. Where are your friends tonight where are your friends tonight what you start to see is not a genre of music or a trend. Its a scene. And though they were not a new york band arcade fire connected spiritually to that moment. Chill train 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 one of the year its the first time you had indie bands soundtracking commercials for mainstream multinational 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 come with me because you look so fine that 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 global indie community. Glamorous indie rock n 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. 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 could probably say the white stripes or arcade fire are the last really big rock band in the classical sense. And the strays coming for my blood tell me 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. 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Go to xfinity. Com moving to get started. If we started decade with boy bands, we end the decade with solo women ruling the pop world, and lady gaga is at the height of our power. Listening to Something Like poker face or bad romance, you can tell she was a student rock music, a student of disco, student of the drag balls, and she was someone who wanted to combine all those elements into really aggressive, hardhitting pop music. I want your lovin you and me could write a bad romance suddenly it was no longer enough where 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 like 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 firework come on let your colors burst we have katy perry, shakira, nikki minaj, taylor swift just coming into her own. Walking the streets with you and your worn out jeans taylor swift is a song writer. 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 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 he is now. Its pretty incredible. By the end of that decade, artists would make their own music and put it up on my space and all the 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. Cry me a river cry me a river 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 the 2000s, the Music Industry was undergoing a massive shift with 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 cds, a store 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 seemed like all of it was gone, reduced to rubble. The shuttering this weekend of virgins last two stores in manhattan and hollywood marks the death of a oncebooming 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. 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. Why not . Coachella. All of a sudden that same generation thats discovering music peer to peer online wants to be somewhere in a field with that peer enjoying the live music experience. I see about 40 different bands, any type of music you can imagine. Music festivals would also be at this dj tent, over the years that tent kept getting bigger and bigger. The super star djs, diplo, david guetta, cascade, paul oakenfold, these guys are pulling in millions as headliners. Hip hop stars are becoming rock stars. Djs 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, more about us as an organism. Come on. [ cheers ] clap your hands. Clap your hands. 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 musicmakers do. The 2000s are the age of the machine, but that doesnt mean theres not a search for the soul inside the machine. Tonights the night lets live it up i got my money lets live it up go out and smash it jump on that sofa lets kick it off i dont know where let it go i feel stressed out i want to let it go theres no way out face down, losing all control here we come here we go, we got to rock the next steps. How the trump impeachment trial will proceed when it resumes on monday. Also ahead here at this hour, the battle for iowa. Democrats vying to replace the u. S. President go all out. The weekend before the countrys first caucuses. Plus a growing outbreak. Whats being done to fight coronavirus and stop it from spreading. Welcome to our viewers from the United States and all around the world, live from atlanta, g. A. , im natalie allen. Im George Howell from cnn head