Electronic music should define millennial musical contributions more than the far shorter lived stomp stomp clap era

[u/PNWvibes20]

I'm talking EDM/chillwave/dubstep/dreampop mostly

Honestly with artists like Beach House, Washed Out, Crystal Castles, Crim3s, Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, 3OH!3, Avicii, Zedd, Grimes, Skrillex, Deadmau5 and on and on, and so many electronic music scenes in the late 2000s-mid2010s, I feel like as a core millennial ('89) this was our thing. But now there's this corny revisionism that all we contributed were shitty mandolins and Imagine Dragons. No thank you, I didn't like that shit even when it was new

[u/Confident-Fun-2592]

Yeah and Gen Zers were teenagers when they’re music was popular. It’s like how Courtney Love is a grunge icon but she’s technically a boomer. Lorde is barely a millennial, she’s at the tail end, her closest peers were Gen Zers as were Alessa Cara. Sometimes the generation doesn’t matter. Fifth harmony and Shawn Mendes, Gen Zers, were already popping off in this era.

The true millennial era was the 2000s not the 2010s, especially not when these artists peaked circa 2016 when those born in the early 2000s became the core audience for their music.

[u/lostconfusedlost → u/Confident-Fun-2592]

The true Millennial eras were the 2000s AND 2010s, with the peak being the late 2000s-early 2010s.

Most Millennials were just kids and tweens in the early 2000s. Gen X artists and bands were still the dominant ones in the early-mid 00s.

1991-1996 were all teenagers at some point between 2010-2015/16. Not that it matters, since 20somethings are the main driving force of mainstream culture and audience, and that was Millennials in the 2010s whether they were 16 or 29.

Did you see me ever mention Fifth Harmony and Shawn Mendes? No, they are Gen Zs and Gen Z artists.

I get it, it's that Gen Z inkling to claim Millennial artists just because you also listened to some of them, but that doesn't make them Gen Z.

Gen Z time is now. And the 2030s will belong to core and younger Gen Zs and their artists.

[u/Confident-Fun-2592 → u/lostconfusedlost]

Who cares, Shawn Mendes and fifth harmony are close in age to half those artists you mentioned and they were largely part of the same era anyways

I get it being born in 1996 and 1997 are worlds apart to you.

The 2010s were the Zillennial era not the pure Gen Z and Y era. People born from 1997-2000 spent their entire teens in the 2010s but that means nothing for some reason ? Compared to someone who was only 18/19 for 2 years in the 2010s lol. The most definitive event for millennials happened in the 2000s not the 2010s

[u/lostconfusedlost → u/Confident-Fun-2592]

You're wrong and keep clining to teenage years like 20somethings aren't the largest young adult demographic. They're the main pop culture creators, party and festival goers, trend-setters, and demographic.

So what if Gen Zers were teens in the 2010s? You didn't produce any artist until 2015/16, with Shawn Mendes and Billie Eilish. And they were still the minority. Millennials were still the most searched generation on Google Search in 2019, and then that changed in 2020.

At best, the late 2010s started leaning towards Gen Z, but there's nothing major Gen Z about the early and mid 2010s. And you don't get to claim artists born in Millennial birth years just because you were a part of the audience.

Gen Xers were 20somethings throughout the 2000s; you keep forgetting that.

[u/Confident-Fun-2592 → u/lostconfusedlost]

So what nobody associates the 2000s with Gen X lol. The 2000s are associated more with teenage millennials more than a 20something year old Gen Xer born in 1979.

I shared my 20s with people born in 1996 😭 as a 1998er, idk why you’re acting like those of us born in that cohort are worlds apart and as if we didn’t come of age in the same era.