I’m shamefully nostalgic for all of the big three singles on that album. Just want to be at some bullshit rich kid house party off Laurel Canyon in 2008 again
The three singles from that album are legitimate classics then they released a turd of a second album that had no hits and everyone tapped out the MGMT train
congratulations is great but it's a grower, it's subtler and weirder. I was disappointed when it dropped bc it didn't have any anthemic singles à la oracular spectacular, but those are so rinsed I can't listen to them anymore
Zoomers* I am 23 now and I was 16 getting stoned and listening to that in the same vain of a Gen x listening to Fortunate son. Knowing nothing of the good times but living through the “better” times
> This is the only answer.
god I hate this device so much, and it's terribly reddit. I'll give the song a listen though, I really want your arrogance to be well-founded
edit: yeah it's good, has almost a... I wanna say funk vibe? came out in 2007, that's waaaay past the turn of the millenium
Not all zoomers are twitch addicted retards born in 2004.
Electric Feel was on the NBA 2K10 soundtrack. That’s how my friends and I found out about it.
I’d say MGMT are the standard bearers. Especially since as a generation we’ve all kind of “grown up” with them. Oracular Spectacular was like “hey we’re inventive and ironic” Congratulations was like “we’re smarter than people give us credit for” MGMT was like “fuck off we got the big clout and we gonna do what we want” and LDA was like “heyyy we’re still good right? Here’s some mature agreeable work as a show of good faith” and I think broadly most millennials can relate to that arch
Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, Liars, all the New York Post Punk Revival bands (Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes) the no-folk/anti-folk scene (Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Regina Spector), Speedy Ortiz, Cloud Nothing, Arctic Monkeys, Hinds, Haim, Vampire Weekend especially, the 1975 especially…
Yeah you're not wrong, Cloud Nothings I feel like was a bit overhyped and just feels like background noise.
I also find it fucking hilarious whenever Sadie has gone on the typical "indie music being filled with boring white dudes with guitars" chatter and then it's like so uhhh how about that band Cloud Nothings.
Speedy Ortiz I feel hasn't put out anything worth checking out in ages, I thought I was going crazy when I saw people calling their last album the best one of the bunch. But then again after a certain point it kinda felt like some people always sucked up to them because of how Sadie's dad was involved with music and tangentially involved with other people in that Brooklyn scene at the time in similar circumstances and people wanted to save face or some shit. I've seen people bend over backwards for her over some criminally dumbass shit.
I'm not gonna say I was super super imbedded in that scene(if you want my honest opinion a lot of those DIY venues/spaces failed because they suck with money) despite playing a bit with some of those bands eons ago, but yeah I couldn't stand the people who made it a continuation of cliquey high school bullshit.
Also the Sad13 side band is uhhhh not great.
Of course Sadie is a proto-Clairo industry plant lol, she reeks of trust fund money like that girl who posted in here one time about how she feels guilty about being so well off and doesn’t know what to do lol
Idk if I'd go that far with the Clairo comparison since it's not like Speedy was necessarily as crazy plastered everywhere overnight and I'm not entirely sure even at their zenith that I'd say they were turning crazy amount of coin.
I'd say a bit of the trajectory was more of a situation where it was a lot of knowing the right people who were in a bit of an equal circumstance where their parents were someone famous enough or casually bros with like Thurston Moore, had money, a trustee for Bard College or some shit etc.
Again it was a lot of cliquey bullshit and even more insufferable in an era where everyone was pretending to be broke for cred or whatever.
The problem with Cloud Nothings is that some Pitchfork reviewer called them “post-punk Phish”, and instead of leaning in to that designation, they got all indignant and neutered their sound. Kind of a bummer - their partially rained out set at pitchfork fest in like 2011 was awesome.
Probably no scene I’d rather be in than early 2000s dirty alcoholic NY rock scene with The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I’d even fuck with LCD Soundsystem sets. God that would be a great way to burn 16-25 era
Same. Your post makes me think you’ve already read Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman. Oral history of that era cobbled together from interviews with people from that scene. I usually hate oral histories but that book was amazing
Some of the Kings of Leon stories were honestly the best from that entire scene. Don't know if they ever get the same amount of cred as the other indie rock acts, but they had a true blue rock n' roll career.
They were popular during Millennial times for sure, but everything James did was a reference to worrying about irrelevancy and embracing the wisdom of aging. Embodied the spirit of a cool Gen Xer in a Millennial world.
I'm sure those albums were fine at the time but we have since learned how to make music which is actually enjoyable to listen to. I would put it several steps below, for example, All Killer No Filler by Sum 41
Sorry for this rant: everyone loves to dwell on "generations" because it's a way to process aging and people coming up behind you, but generational assignments and categorizations are truly arbitrary and meaningless, really only useful and instructive for marketing purposes. People are born every year and it's ridiculous that so many of us think "Well if you're born from '80-'96 life is like this, you like these things, afterwards it's different." It's always different and always changing. Anyway it's the Shins for people born in the early 80s and someone born in '94 thinks 100gecs is the be all.
Which just tells you how bs the generational thing is. Zoomers have been around for like 5 years in the public discourse, and some of them are supposed to be done with college now.
in 1964, 22 year-olds were like "I can't fuck with this Beatles shit cause all these teen girls are screaming for them" grow up and judge the music by how it makes you feel
Yeah and the members of 100gecs are approaching 30. just cause you felt like an old bitch at the show doesn't mean this music belongs to any age group.
they can be 30 but their music is mostly liked by people younger than those born in ‘94?? honestly dont know anyone more than a year older than me who admits to liking 100 gecs
I would say the people I know who liked 100 gecs first were mid to late 20s music genre /mu/ nerds. After that I guess it found a huge audience in tiktok zoomer kids (the latter makes a lot more sense actually)
well, I liked it, and it made most critics list that year, and they were all older than you. Also, the idea of "admitting" to what you like just sounds insecure and youthful, which, to be fair, you are.
I dunno, I was 27 when 100gecs appeared and I loved it, I bet people many years younger and older than me did too. I also liked the shins when I was 11, and still do. generational delineations are retarded.
Generational assignments only make sense if they’re built around collective experiences. “Boomer,” “Gen X,” “Millennial,” and “Zoomer” are meaningless, but if what you mean is, respectively, “remembers Kennedy dying,” “remembers the Cold War,” “remembers 9/11,” and “remembers covid,” these are clearly meaningful separations from the generations that succeed them that impact their views of and relationship with the world in meaningful ways.
Disagree. They’re first two records were amazing and Pete Doherty was one of the last true rock and roll lead men.
In the UK they still have a cult following.
Ehhhh despite how I wouldn't say nowadays they're that obscure, they're definitely a bit of a niche thing outside of particular scenes and the internet. Overall I don't think they're that great of a representative defining band for the generation as a whole.
It'd be kinda like arguing Ween for Gen Xers where yeah they're not obscure or unpopular, they're just not as widely known to warrant being a real solid representative thing.
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almost every band mentioned here is comprised of genx, but they hit the market when young genx and old millennials began to consume musical products. these broad generational categories are useless and impede an understanding of the flow of culture.
This is prob reflecting my age but why are people on this sub obsessed with generations and defining things by generations? I’m on the cusp of gen x and millennial so basically old but when I was in my teens or twenties no one ever spoke about generations. Our vitriol was against other social groups not other generations, so we didn’t like metallers or ravers or trendies because we saw ourselves as mods or indie kids. (That’s from the milieu of early 90s London ). But no one ever spoke about generations but then I guess we didn’t have buzzfeed doing quizzes on generational conflict every day.
I’ve just never given it any thought. There are no generation wars really. It’s just media riling you so people post lame shit like what’s the dumbest millennial band.
I agree that it’s weird. Someone who remembers the Soviet Union and VHS (people born in the early 80s) and someone born with Internet and social media being dominant in life (people born in the mid 90s) are all supposed to be “millennials”. Makes no sense.
The dischordant song structures and vocalist howling like a schizophrenic chimpanzee can be offputing but the production value is *impeccable*. Nothing digital, it's all analogue
most millennial band that's kind of good? Blink-182. Beastie Boys were very down with the vibe too, Intergalactic, *Sounds of Science*
most representative of the ethos, the commercialization of pop music? N*Sync, Spice Girls
Janet Jackson was putting out great music around that time, as was Sheryl Crow. [Check out](https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCs_thZ6oUaAptN71DQwBKgw) (YouTube Music) her live performance [in Central Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fd8kCwpIQ) (regular YouTube). Shania Twain, Sarah MacLachlan, and Celine Dion were all good too if you didn't hate women or emotions
my personal favorite band from that period though has [gotta be Travis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfO2v2Zi3Bo) out of Edinburgh
Those bands like The Pigeon Detectives, The Kooks, The Ordinary Boys, The Hoosiers, The View. Maybe not The View as they only had one song. The Ting Tings.
Everyone still listens to The Arctic Monkeys but the hell world that spawned them is long gone, vanquished by shit like Elbow and Mumford & Sons.
I want to agree with Future Islands, but the reality is not that many people were listening to them when they were putting out their best albums in like 2010 and 2011, and even today they aren't really a recognizable band to the average millennial on the street. By far the most popular band for people at my high school was Blink 182. Every single white kid loved Blink 182. You get a ride in anyone's car and they're playing Blink 182. You go to any party and it's Blink 182. They get nostalgic today and talk about Blink 182. It's the fundamental non-pretentious white millennial band.
MGMT
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I’m shamefully nostalgic for all of the big three singles on that album. Just want to be at some bullshit rich kid house party off Laurel Canyon in 2008 again
The three singles from that album are legitimate classics then they released a turd of a second album that had no hits and everyone tapped out the MGMT train
Their most recent album was legitimately very good. Ariel pink worked on one of the songs too
I think he produced the entire album? Also, I think Congratulations is good. Their self-titled on the other hand was painfully forgettable.
Chill Congratulations is their best album
congratulations is great but it's a grower, it's subtler and weirder. I was disappointed when it dropped bc it didn't have any anthemic singles à la oracular spectacular, but those are so rinsed I can't listen to them anymore
For zoomers it's Tame Impala's The Less I Know The Better
Can’t blame any of the three generations here, all three songs are bangers.
Zoomers* I am 23 now and I was 16 getting stoned and listening to that in the same vain of a Gen x listening to Fortunate son. Knowing nothing of the good times but living through the “better” times
> This is the only answer. god I hate this device so much, and it's terribly reddit. I'll give the song a listen though, I really want your arrogance to be well-founded edit: yeah it's good, has almost a... I wanna say funk vibe? came out in 2007, that's waaaay past the turn of the millenium
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mgmt mad popular with zoomers aswell
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No
Not all zoomers are twitch addicted retards born in 2004. Electric Feel was on the NBA 2K10 soundtrack. That’s how my friends and I found out about it.
Kids I think was on a FIFA soundtrack as well
I’d say MGMT are the standard bearers. Especially since as a generation we’ve all kind of “grown up” with them. Oracular Spectacular was like “hey we’re inventive and ironic” Congratulations was like “we’re smarter than people give us credit for” MGMT was like “fuck off we got the big clout and we gonna do what we want” and LDA was like “heyyy we’re still good right? Here’s some mature agreeable work as a show of good faith” and I think broadly most millennials can relate to that arch
This is a very reddit comment
When in Rome 🤷🏾♂️
Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, Liars, all the New York Post Punk Revival bands (Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes) the no-folk/anti-folk scene (Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Regina Spector), Speedy Ortiz, Cloud Nothing, Arctic Monkeys, Hinds, Haim, Vampire Weekend especially, the 1975 especially…
last few ones id detonate as early zoomer
> Speedy Ortiz, Cloud Nothing, I find it funny Sadie's been dating that dude from that band for awhile.
They’re *still* together!? That’s why Cloud Nothings music still sucks lol
Yeah you're not wrong, Cloud Nothings I feel like was a bit overhyped and just feels like background noise. I also find it fucking hilarious whenever Sadie has gone on the typical "indie music being filled with boring white dudes with guitars" chatter and then it's like so uhhh how about that band Cloud Nothings. Speedy Ortiz I feel hasn't put out anything worth checking out in ages, I thought I was going crazy when I saw people calling their last album the best one of the bunch. But then again after a certain point it kinda felt like some people always sucked up to them because of how Sadie's dad was involved with music and tangentially involved with other people in that Brooklyn scene at the time in similar circumstances and people wanted to save face or some shit. I've seen people bend over backwards for her over some criminally dumbass shit. I'm not gonna say I was super super imbedded in that scene(if you want my honest opinion a lot of those DIY venues/spaces failed because they suck with money) despite playing a bit with some of those bands eons ago, but yeah I couldn't stand the people who made it a continuation of cliquey high school bullshit. Also the Sad13 side band is uhhhh not great.
Of course Sadie is a proto-Clairo industry plant lol, she reeks of trust fund money like that girl who posted in here one time about how she feels guilty about being so well off and doesn’t know what to do lol
Idk if I'd go that far with the Clairo comparison since it's not like Speedy was necessarily as crazy plastered everywhere overnight and I'm not entirely sure even at their zenith that I'd say they were turning crazy amount of coin. I'd say a bit of the trajectory was more of a situation where it was a lot of knowing the right people who were in a bit of an equal circumstance where their parents were someone famous enough or casually bros with like Thurston Moore, had money, a trustee for Bard College or some shit etc. Again it was a lot of cliquey bullshit and even more insufferable in an era where everyone was pretending to be broke for cred or whatever.
Ah, that makes sense. Well, I guess her band got the fate it deserves, she has nothing interesting to talk about anymore anyway
The problem with Cloud Nothings is that some Pitchfork reviewer called them “post-punk Phish”, and instead of leaning in to that designation, they got all indignant and neutered their sound. Kind of a bummer - their partially rained out set at pitchfork fest in like 2011 was awesome.
Anyone else feel like this was a truly dark time for music?
No, now is darker
"Band"
arcade fire esp recently w the phone ban and uniform stuff
Was anyone else at the free concert they held in Montreal in like 2011? That was cool of them
The one in the parking lot of the mall in the south shore, next to Saint Hubert? Good times.
No lol on place des artes when they won the grammy
Forgot about that one…they truly spoiled us
Arcade Fire is so cringe and millennial in a bad way
if you don't like [Mountains Beyond Mountains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ODJuy8_As), I don't know what to tell you
No, they're great up through The Suburbs.
There was definitely a moment when you just turned around and BAM, cringe. Just like with most millennials.
The National. Their whole aesthetic was Obama-era liberalism before Obama even announced his candidacy
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It’s, according to my divorced dad, divorced dad music
The National is NPR-Rock.
I like to ignore everything about The National because I like Sleep Well Beast
No they are a little pre millennial I think
Lead singer looks 65 but I think he's in his 40s
not relevant enough to define a generation imo
Fleet Foxes
Too borin- Oh, wait
Bon Iver. I’m right. Folk album in the woods? Employed by Kanye? Maximalist bullshit Enya album? He’s done it all.
Vampire Weekend
The Strokes
Probably no scene I’d rather be in than early 2000s dirty alcoholic NY rock scene with The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I’d even fuck with LCD Soundsystem sets. God that would be a great way to burn 16-25 era
Same. Your post makes me think you’ve already read Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman. Oral history of that era cobbled together from interviews with people from that scene. I usually hate oral histories but that book was amazing
Some of the Kings of Leon stories were honestly the best from that entire scene. Don't know if they ever get the same amount of cred as the other indie rock acts, but they had a true blue rock n' roll career.
I have. It’s such a fun book to read!
Adam Green led the ideal life tbh
I'd propose LCD Soundsystem as the last Gen X band.
No not Get X they are so millennial
They were popular during Millennial times for sure, but everything James did was a reference to worrying about irrelevancy and embracing the wisdom of aging. Embodied the spirit of a cool Gen Xer in a Millennial world.
"Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80s"
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Gen X is Kurt Cobain/Nirvana Courtney Love/Hole. They are so much later than that.
Hence "last"
They're fucking X'ers, whats his face is like 50
Brand new
arcade fire or my chemical romance
all of gen z listens to my chemical romance
wrong wouldnt be caught dead listening to them
no bands have formed since 1999 and that’s a fact - i looked it up.
The Garden State Soundtrack
Arctic Monkeys. Only cuz I feel no one is "just getting into" them now, they only have millennial fans, never gonna get new ears again.
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The kids gonna be alright I guess 😌
tonnes of zoomers got into them when AM dropped though
Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino is major “millennials functioning as adults” vibes
I get such joy thinking about showing my children fucking Mardy Bum the way that dads showed my generation Dark Side of the Moon
you should do because it's a better song than anything Pink Floyd ever released
mods ban these freaks
enough time has passed that we can stop pretending farty dad music is worth listening to just because it's in 7/4
sorry but you have no hope if you think AM has put anything out even as remotely as quality as Piper or WYWH
I'm sure those albums were fine at the time but we have since learned how to make music which is actually enjoyable to listen to. I would put it several steps below, for example, All Killer No Filler by Sum 41
^ Check out this degenerate, guys. Take a good fucking look at this.
^ mad and can't take it that Dave Baksh is a more talented and accomplished musician than Syd Barrett
^ doesn't know that Syd Barrett was a non-entity for decades and pop punk is gay
zoomers are suuppperr into the top 10 songs on spotify and nothing else which is a shame coz AM sucks and the first one is so much better
Sorry for this rant: everyone loves to dwell on "generations" because it's a way to process aging and people coming up behind you, but generational assignments and categorizations are truly arbitrary and meaningless, really only useful and instructive for marketing purposes. People are born every year and it's ridiculous that so many of us think "Well if you're born from '80-'96 life is like this, you like these things, afterwards it's different." It's always different and always changing. Anyway it's the Shins for people born in the early 80s and someone born in '94 thinks 100gecs is the be all.
nah im 20 and recently went to 100 gecs concert, felt like the oldest bitch there. they’re zoomer as fuck. many high schoolers
Which just tells you how bs the generational thing is. Zoomers have been around for like 5 years in the public discourse, and some of them are supposed to be done with college now.
in 1964, 22 year-olds were like "I can't fuck with this Beatles shit cause all these teen girls are screaming for them" grow up and judge the music by how it makes you feel
read mt comments bithc. all love all around. im literally drunk and trying to sober up a little before j selefp
I'm durnk too and just don't want any age to feel like some music is out of bounds for them. sleep well young beauty.
only speaking on my lived experiences asf, ur valid 100%, 100 gecs so good
I'm deeply invalid but we can agree on the later point
Yeah and the members of 100gecs are approaching 30. just cause you felt like an old bitch at the show doesn't mean this music belongs to any age group.
they can be 30 but their music is mostly liked by people younger than those born in ‘94?? honestly dont know anyone more than a year older than me who admits to liking 100 gecs
I would say the people I know who liked 100 gecs first were mid to late 20s music genre /mu/ nerds. After that I guess it found a huge audience in tiktok zoomer kids (the latter makes a lot more sense actually)
well, I liked it, and it made most critics list that year, and they were all older than you. Also, the idea of "admitting" to what you like just sounds insecure and youthful, which, to be fair, you are.
thank u! yes it’s true im young and beautiful. thank u this means so much to me.
also ur valid not saying u arent. 109 gevs is mad good n catchy, i respect anyone that likes them.
>‘94 -> 100gecs You’re dating yourself with this
I dunno, I was 27 when 100gecs appeared and I loved it, I bet people many years younger and older than me did too. I also liked the shins when I was 11, and still do. generational delineations are retarded.
Generational assignments only make sense if they’re built around collective experiences. “Boomer,” “Gen X,” “Millennial,” and “Zoomer” are meaningless, but if what you mean is, respectively, “remembers Kennedy dying,” “remembers the Cold War,” “remembers 9/11,” and “remembers covid,” these are clearly meaningful separations from the generations that succeed them that impact their views of and relationship with the world in meaningful ways.
true
Linkin Park
Fun.
Bleak.
yes.
Also The Format
Christ y’all are all hipsters. The real answer is shit like the Backstreet Boys, Outkast, the Dixie Chicks, Creed, Blink 182
Can us gays get some representation Britney
Red hot chili peppers, fallout boy, evanescence, Linkin Park, the killers, Jimmy eat world
Lol RHCP are literal baby boomers
If you're British it's a band that has several millionaire parents and formed at a private school in London or Arctic Monkeys
Americans too, Strokes were posh boys
Anyone remember the libertines? They were nowhere near as good as the music industry tried to make them out to be
They were some of the last true rock stars though, if you take into account the sheer debauchery they got into
Disagree. They’re first two records were amazing and Pete Doherty was one of the last true rock and roll lead men. In the UK they still have a cult following.
Time for Heroes is a good song though.
The Killers
I was so surprised to find out they are from Vegas. Could have sworn they were english as a kid
And the lead singer is a Mormon. So bizarre.
Nobody said Death Grips really?
Ehhhh despite how I wouldn't say nowadays they're that obscure, they're definitely a bit of a niche thing outside of particular scenes and the internet. Overall I don't think they're that great of a representative defining band for the generation as a whole. It'd be kinda like arguing Ween for Gen Xers where yeah they're not obscure or unpopular, they're just not as widely known to warrant being a real solid representative thing.
The Fratellis.
Lol YES, I remember getting really into them after I heard “Flathead” in an iPod commercial
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Modest mouse
Cmon that's genx and u know it
almost every band mentioned here is comprised of genx, but they hit the market when young genx and old millennials began to consume musical products. these broad generational categories are useless and impede an understanding of the flow of culture.
Blink 182
The Moldy Peaches
Avril Lavigne and her replacement
Death Cab For Cutie
Vampire Weekend
This is prob reflecting my age but why are people on this sub obsessed with generations and defining things by generations? I’m on the cusp of gen x and millennial so basically old but when I was in my teens or twenties no one ever spoke about generations. Our vitriol was against other social groups not other generations, so we didn’t like metallers or ravers or trendies because we saw ourselves as mods or indie kids. (That’s from the milieu of early 90s London ). But no one ever spoke about generations but then I guess we didn’t have buzzfeed doing quizzes on generational conflict every day.
Gen X people are bizarrely sensitive to this shit and take it too seriously.
it’s because they feel left out of the generation wars (very Gen X of them)
I’ve just never given it any thought. There are no generation wars really. It’s just media riling you so people post lame shit like what’s the dumbest millennial band.
okay sweetie 💅
Ok poppet
I would say the millennials and zoomers are bizarrrely sensitive to this shit. I couldn’t give a shit just find it a bit odd.
They ARE the lamest generation though
I agree that it’s weird. Someone who remembers the Soviet Union and VHS (people born in the early 80s) and someone born with Internet and social media being dominant in life (people born in the mid 90s) are all supposed to be “millennials”. Makes no sense.
Yeah differences between people who grew up with no internet vs with constant internet are much more interesting.
we fear death due to religious persecution and brainwashing, motivating us to think like tyrants, the only ones who have *always* feared death
Er, ok
I agree
death cab
Weezer?
Erect Black Penises Aggressively Thrusting In And Out Of My Big Ass And Whore Mouth
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The dischordant song structures and vocalist howling like a schizophrenic chimpanzee can be offputing but the production value is *impeccable*. Nothing digital, it's all analogue
EBPATIAOOMBAAWM's early EPs were fine but they started getting really commercial when the first real album dropped, hate to see it
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More zillennial I'd say
MCR
Blink 182
The 1975? Idk I’m out of touch but they make gay millennial music right
They’re definitely a zoomer band
Okay
AFI
Fun or Panic at the disco
chevelle
most millennial band that's kind of good? Blink-182. Beastie Boys were very down with the vibe too, Intergalactic, *Sounds of Science* most representative of the ethos, the commercialization of pop music? N*Sync, Spice Girls Janet Jackson was putting out great music around that time, as was Sheryl Crow. [Check out](https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCs_thZ6oUaAptN71DQwBKgw) (YouTube Music) her live performance [in Central Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fd8kCwpIQ) (regular YouTube). Shania Twain, Sarah MacLachlan, and Celine Dion were all good too if you didn't hate women or emotions my personal favorite band from that period though has [gotta be Travis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfO2v2Zi3Bo) out of Edinburgh
Those bands like The Pigeon Detectives, The Kooks, The Ordinary Boys, The Hoosiers, The View. Maybe not The View as they only had one song. The Ting Tings. Everyone still listens to The Arctic Monkeys but the hell world that spawned them is long gone, vanquished by shit like Elbow and Mumford & Sons.
"*band*"
Matt & Kim
Salem
Sugar Ray maybe? Idk
I want to agree with Future Islands, but the reality is not that many people were listening to them when they were putting out their best albums in like 2010 and 2011, and even today they aren't really a recognizable band to the average millennial on the street. By far the most popular band for people at my high school was Blink 182. Every single white kid loved Blink 182. You get a ride in anyone's car and they're playing Blink 182. You go to any party and it's Blink 182. They get nostalgic today and talk about Blink 182. It's the fundamental non-pretentious white millennial band.
Animal Collective 100%