- may i have your attention, please? - we got a moon man. - i m very ashamed the president of the united states isis from texaxas. - the didixie chicksks, they can say whatat they want t to say. - billboard s top ten singles all by black artists. - rappers are the new rock stars. - i i don t pleaease everyboy withth who i am m as a perso. - okay. - real staccato. like, sticick it. - - i love beyeyoncé. - that s not a working telephone, is it? - hello? - [laughs] - empty shelves are all you ll find here at tower records. it s now out of business. [dramatic music] all: three, two, one. [all screaming] - this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt. [cheering] - that s great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes and lenny bruce is not afraid - i ll always remember new year s eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know
been g ground downwn to zero. - - i m standiding outsidede e i used to o buy my cdsds a store that is now shuttered and shut down as you can tell like so many other music stores across the country. [dramatic music] - by the end of the decade, the music business was falling off a cliff. it seemed d like all of it wawas gone, reduced to rubble. - the shuttering thihis weekd of v virgin s lalast two stots in manhattan and hollywood marks the death of a once booming chain and another nail in the coffin of the music cd. - by the mid-2000s, music labels realized that y youtube, mymyspace, and filele sharing s software was the way people were discovering new music. so what do you do? you get all of the people that you ve heard online together in onene act and y you charge 130 bubucks to seeee it. and d this proveved to be a ay susuccessful m model. - - wakining up feeliling d and limber - the one e that realllly sett off was bonnaroo
i m gononna bare mymy soul and my feeeelings on a a recor - best i i ever had best i e ever had best i ever had - it wasn t just hip-hop. you know, r&b had been doing this for a long time in a really kind of personal way. - t these are m my confessis jujust when i i thought i i s all i can say my chick on the side said she got one on the way - usher s confessions was deeply personal and relatable. he just laid it all out there. - if i m gonna tell it then i gotta 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, herere s a brotr thatat s really y doing it. - i i think thahat you should letet it burn - we had trey songz and chris brown and usher, but the superstars of r&b are the women. absolutetely. - - i keeeep on falliling in and out of love with you