Looking back do you think the 2000s seem way different than now?

That's for sure. People were less crazy, and tv/movies were better in that era. The clothes were better too.

However, I resent people calling the first decade of the 2000s the "naughties." You want to call a decade that, call the 1960s that. 2000-2010 doesn't really qualify. And it was not a "strange" era. I know, because I was there. Basically, people were just getting used to a new century, and having cellphones easily available, and the early precursors to the internet we have now.

Um... these Are the 2000s...
Y'know... 2019...two thousand nineteen.
It's gonna be the 2000s for, like, a thousand years.
Just sayin'...

I know, all this 2000 decade stuff seems so obsolete now:

- flip phones
- BlackBerries
- Brittany Spears
- Yahoo search engine
- Sex and the City
- iPods
- Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsey Lohan
- Harry Potter movies
- The Sopranos
- High School Musical
- American Idol
- Lance Armstrong as a sports icon
- Michael Jackson death
- George W Bush presidency

I some how think the opposite but it’s probably just my experience. I stopped listening to mainstream music after grunge in the 90’s and tend to enjoy film before 2000 also.

To me it seems like you can look at decades in culture and they are very distinctive until after 2000. If you play a song or watch a movie it’s so easy to guess what decade it it’s from if it’s 1930, 1950, 1980 or whatever. From 2000 forward it just seems like a blur of the same stuff. I’m sure young adults during that time have a different opinion.

Has there been a significant change in popular music style since the early 2000s?

Away from the Internet and the IPhone...

It's the same.