- 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
i want to scream at the top of my lungs - john mayer was this virtuoso guitar player who wrote these kind of sentimental love songs. - - and i if you wantnt le wewe ll make i it - he was huge. - swiwim in a deep sea of blankets your body is a wonderland i ll use my hands - in the 2000s, rock itself becomes numb and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at w war. - post-9/1/11, someme believe f familiar mumc will sell well this holiday. - and i ve been wrong i ve been down to the bottom of every bottle - nickelback, they had bigger hits than anybody. - everybodody s welcomome to thehe nickelbacack club. we got a we got a big club. yeah, yeah - a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it s almost like it it lost its will to fight. unless youou re talkining about t green day.y.
- and you say we shouldn t worry about bin laden have e you forgototten - in musicic there wasas no oppositionon to that m messag. but when t the war o on terror began. [enginine roaring]g] [shotsts firing] and we re talking about invading countries, well, then music had a lot to act in opposition to. - the didixie chicksks are thep countrtry touring g act of thehr despite the firestorm unleashed by their words during the first days of the war in iraq. - when n natalie maiaines sai, you u know, w we re so asashamed of or prpresident riright now, their r career tooook a sesevere beatiting. - someme protestorors took a tractor r and their r fet to smash the group s cds. - if you want to feel some good old fashioned american pride, look no further than the uproar ovover the dixixie chicks.. - and how w they can s say, i i m ashameded that the prpresident s s from texa comeme on, man.. - - screw themem, right? say it.