welcome back to "young wonders," showcasing remarkable kids doing amazing things has been a cnn heroes tradition since 2007. this year we wanted to catch up with some young wonders from past years to see how they and their efforts have grown since their moment in the tribute show spotlight. >> i remember looking at the crowd for my family. >> will you join me in giving a big hand for our young wonder chris cao.

>> as cliche as it sounds. >> it's definitely magical. >> i am the ceo. >> running a nonprofit at the age of 16 is definitely hard. >> a 501-c3 profit aimed at increasing education opportunities for youth through greater access through technology. >> this is 2 plus 1. >> locally we have given out about 250 computers. globally around 50 computers. >> since then, we had triple the amount of computers that we've donate around the world with the global reach of eight to nine countries now. currently i'm in boston working for dato, a data protection and disaster recovery company. in the future, i hope to continue my passion for technology, working on the software aspect of increasing education opportunities and access to technology for disadvantaged people worldwide.

♪ >> it was very emotional for me. being there around people who were change-makers was something that i really love. my name is josh williams, and i was a young wonder in 2014. >> when i was 4 1/2 years old, i found my purpose in life. >> it's a 501-3 c aimed at fighting hunger in a community and how they can be a force for good. >> since i started, i have given out over 650,000 tons of food. >> since then, josh's heart has grown significantly. recently we bought a warehouse where people can come for emergency food if they really need it. we are at about 2.2 million pounds of food so far. >> i really want to say thank you to everybody who made it possible, my movement. >> we raised over $700,000, and we have given help to over

400,000 people across the world. >> so welcome to my dorm. have i some cool in the background, some records. i'm attending nyu and the business school. personally, i'm trying to create a career for myself that i can be able to help more people. i grew up with the foundation and the foundation grew up with me. 10 i think without it, i wouldn't be where i am at all. >> i'm mackenzie and i was a young wonder in 2010. i remember flying out to l.a. for the awards show and getting all dressed up. it was really fun. when i was first interviewed for cnn heroes, i was 16. >> the doctor diagnosed with me reflex sympathetic dystrophy. when something touches it, it's like a bomb goes off in my knee. >> they asked me if there was anything that helped with the pain, and i said reading. the doctor did know about a

shelter for abused children, and that they had just built a library. and she asked me if i could donate my books that i didn't want anymore, and i knew that my few books wouldn't be enough. soy went around the neighborhood. i handed out flyers. >> thank you so much for donating. >> my original goal was to get 300 books. before i know it, i had 3,000 books. today i'm almost a half a million books. as it kept going and it grew bigger and bigger, both of my brothers started to help out, and then my health has gotten worse over the years. so my brother has almost taken over sometimes. it's my goal to at least make someone smile every day. and i can definitely do that by donating books. ♪ >> when i was a young wonder, i was 13. soy was just starting high

school. i felt nervous. i was excited. i was overwhelmed. my name is maria keller, and i was a young wonder in 2014. my mom told me when i was 8 that some kids don't have books. so i wanted to do something to change what i heard. and so i started with a small book drive. and then told my parents that i wanted to collect and distribute one million books to kids in need by the time i turned 18. since i was a young wonder, reached over 2.8 million books distributed to kids in need. and we estimate we have touched the lives of 1.6 million children. now i'm 18 and i'm starting my first year at notre dame. so without read indeed's impact, i don't think i would have been so committed to service. i don't think i would have viewed myself as in some way

responsible for the good of the world, and utilizing my life and my energy in a way that can benefit others. >> at 16, jordan was on his boat getting ready to enjoy a beautiful day fishing with his family. >> i remember about the night. every second of it. i remember being surrounded by people that i felt so starstruck by, just so incredibly amazed by. >> he jumped into the water, was pulled towards the propellers and lost his legislation. he started the jordan thomas foundation. >> we provide prosthetics for kids that can't afford them. we're going help them until they're 18 years old so, families never have to worry than burden. my accident was a terrible accident, but i wouldn't change it for anything in the world, because it's given me newfound perspective in my life. i'm 29 now. we've raised a lot of money.

just almost $2 million now. so huge, huge impact cnn had that exposure took us to another level in terms of outreach. every day i get multiple, multiple e-mails from kids throughout the world or their families asking for support. surround yourself with people that believe in you and your vision and your purpose, and you will go to the moon. >> hi, i'm ryan hilljack, and i want to provide clean water for everyone in the world. >> i was 16 when i was a young wonder, and i'm 27 now. the ryan's well foundation is a canadian nonprofit that works to bring clean water to the neediest people of the world. back when i was 16, the foundation would have just started. you see the impact of what one little well can do. it gives you a lot of

inspiration. since then, we've been able to do now 1,277 water projects all around the world helping hundreds of thousands of people. amazing question. 2018, in august i was invited to go to sweden to speak in water week with professionals all around the world. i was there on a panel representing youth. >> who here knows how far five kilometers is? >> today i was actually at an elementary school called st. mary's. >> i read a lot. and yes. it's looking good this year. it should be an interesting one. >> and the principal there 20 years ago was my first grade teacher back in my elementary school who helped give me the idea to start the project in the first place. >> as a 6-year-old, it was really amazing. and he was really determined. i always say keep going, keep going. in this day and age, perseverance is the biggest thing for everybody. >> i think my words for the

young wonders of this year would be stay true to why you got engaged and why you care what you do. never lose that. they can become an amazing part of your life for when you're an old wonder. >> incredibly inspiring group. so there you have them. if you want to learn more about the amazing kids you met tonight and get involved in their causes, go to cnnheroes.com. we're also thrilled that this year's young wonders will be joining us in the all-star tribute live this sunday night. we'll honor this year's top ten heroes and find out who is going to be named the 2018 cnn hero of the year. my co-host kelly ripa, it's going to be a great night. thanks for watching. we'll see you then. video killed the radio star. now has the internet killed the record industry? >> napster is stealing from us. straight up. and i'm going to fight them to the death.

>> ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! >> may i have your attention, please? >> we've got a movement! >> wishing the president of the united states -- >> the dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. s. >> billboard's top ten singles all by black artists. >> i don't please everybody with who i am as a person. >> i love beyonce. >> that's not a working telephone, is it? >> hello? >> empty shelves are all you'll find here at tower records. it's now out of business. ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ three, two, one! >> this is a very special moment. it's the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! ♪ that's great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes ♪ ♪ 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 it" by r.e.m. ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪

♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. >> happy new year! >> so we wake up, it's 2000, we're all alive, and we're still in the middle of teen pop mania. ♪ don't want to hear you ♪ ain't nothing but a heartache ♪ >> boy bands were selling so many albums. ♪ every little thing you do ♪ never seems enough for you >> this is the biggest year in pop music history in terms of sales. >> brittney, britney, britney! >> you have britney spears selling 1.3 copies of "oops i did it again." in the first week. ♪ oops i did it again ♪ i played with your heart

♪ got lost in the game ♪ oh baby baby >> everybody's falling in love with boy bands and girl groups. but then justin timberlake leaves in sync. ♪ ♪ i want to rock your body >> with his debut album j.t. established what his sound would be and it's instantly appealing to a pop audience and also an r&b audience. ♪ ♪ cry me a river ♪ cry me a river ♪ cry me a river >> you know, justin timberlake leaving 'n sync becomes the model for what can be done. ♪ yes ♪ it's your girl >> you talk about people who are always going to be bigger than their group, that was beyonce. >> you ready? >> she puts out a soul album in 2003. first single is "crazy in love." it's got this incredible sample. that catches your ear. beyonce hasn't opened her mouth yet and you're into that song. ♪

>> i remember being asked once what do you think, christina or britney? he i said beyonce. ♪ got me looking so crazy right now ♪ >> "crazy in love." that's how it begins. >> it seemed like almost overnight she game a kind of icon. she became a deeply respected figure. >> beyonce! >> in the early 2000s the industry was so dominated by pop sensations and booming cd sales that they were totally oblivious to the new generation that didn't think music was something you had to pay for. >> using a pc to download music is one of the hottest of today's computer trends. that has the recording companies up in arms and heading to court. at the center of their dispute is a music sharing internet service known as napster. >> in the late '90s and early 2000s the music industry grew complacent. people had come to them and said you have to start investing in the technology that comes after the compact disc. and they just refused to do it. >> some of rock and roll's bad boys are picking a fight this morning with the internet site

napster.com. >> the lawsuits began when metallica heard on the radio a song that they hadn't released yet. >> metallica was like, what? ♪ >> april 14th metallica filed a lawsuit against napster for basically encouraging people to steal and trade our music illegally. >> we started this thing called exmetallicafans.org. we're asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica. >> i'm glad you're an ex-metallica fan because i don't want you to be a fan of ours if that's your attitude. >> i can't speak for the other bands, but i embraced file sharing. >> if you have napster, please. >> our band was plucked out of obscurity and given a career because of napster. ♪ ♪ if anyone

>> so suddenly i had a platform for sharing my music, to the frustration of a label i was on. >> napster has built a multimillion-dollar business based on people copying files to millions and millions of people they don't know. >> there's a way the technology can be adapted to the benefit of all of the parties involved, the artists, the industry, and the users. >> napster should have been an early version of itunes. it's kind of a tragedy it didn't happen back then. >> today the u.s. court of appeals ruled napster is infringing on copyrighted music, in essence letting its users steal songs. >> music label executives absolutely didn't want any kind of itunes-style distribution infrastructure that would fit with the internet because they were terrified of unbundling the single from the album. so for a long time they've been able to take one hit song like "complicated." ♪ tell me why did you have to go

and make things so complicated ♪ >> if that song comes out in the late '90s it's going to move 20 million albums at $10 each. five or six years later it's no longer going to move 20 million albums. it's going to move 20 million songs at 99 cents each. so you've just lost 90% of your revenue. >> cd sales have dropped almost 1/4 in three years. that's an awful lot of lost business. >> labels absolutely did not want this to happen but ultimately they were powerless to stop it. go big this holiday at t-mobile. when you buy one of the latest sumsung phones you get a free 50" samsung 4k tv.

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it's inevitable, i suppose, that just about the time i'm becoming aware of hip-hop culture it is literally coming of age. hip-hop has been around, i discover, for some 25 years now. and during that time it has not only established itself as america's most popular popular music, it has altered our language. >> the oscar goes to -- ♪ it's hard out here for a pimp ♪ >> you know what? i think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp. >> we're seeing hip-hop seep into everything. it's in commercials. then it's in soundtracks. it's being used as bumper music in sports. and fashion and shoes and everything. >> i've never done it with a machine. >> it was easy. so how do you do it? >> we in the hood. we like -- >> in that moment a lot of rappers were celebrating what they had accomplished. rappers like jermaine dupri, jay-z and ja rule were saying to

the world can you believe this? this is about survival and surviving racism in america and we're going to share this with the world. ♪ uh-oh another episode ♪ to everybody that's living it up we say ♪ >> hip-hop is sort of no longer the bratty kid on the block. it's actually the predominant music. and then what really takes it over the top is a young rapper from detroit. >> we're going to have a problem here. you act like you've never seen a white person before. >> in 2000 eminem puts out the marshall mathers lp, marshall mathers being eminem's real name. and suddenly eminem is the biggest star in hip-hop bar none. ♪ all you other slim shadies are just imitating ♪ ♪ please stand up >> eminem came from a white working-class background and those are the stories he told. it just put him on a different level because he brought his own authenticity to the game. >> dj.

>> i saw "8 mile" in times square opening night and had to sit in front of the theater. it was one of the most satisfying movie experiences i've ever had. i mean, listen, on "lose yourself" when that thing comes through your speakers in a giant movie theater that's a big moment. >> the oscar goes to eminem for "lose yourself." ♪ the music the moment ♪ you enit ♪ you better never let it go >> it's not quite purple rain but it was pretty damn good. ♪ this opportunity comes once in a lifetime ♪ ♪ you better lose yourself >> in the 2000s rappers weren't content to be musicians. they had to be actors and producer and label bosses themselves. so in the video for "in the club, the producers, dr. dre and eminem have set up laboratory. we see 50 cent doing things like

exercise routine and then it pans into this nightclub environment where he's chatting with models and drinking expensive champagne. >> so what they're really doing is perfecting the science of the club banger. ♪ you can find me in the club, bottle full of bub ♪ >> if you have kids now, you know, it's probably rap they're using to drive you up the wall. and the big star in rap now is 50 cent, or fitty cent. however you want to say it. >> your grandmother is absolutely getting down to "in da club." she's calling it in the club but she's getting down to it. i mean, that was everywhere. it was in a commercial. ♪ >> sounds like he's integrated his hit "in da club." extraordinary. >> one of the biggest differences between the '90s and 2000s in terms of hip-hop is this idea of business. >> 33-year-old jay-z is the reigning king of rap. he owns his own record label, clothing line, and movie production company, generating almost half a billion dollars a year in sales. ♪ allow me to reintroduce myself ♪ ♪ my name is hove

♪ h to the-o-v ♪ i used to move snowflakes by the ♪ >> with jay-z you're watching a hip-hop artist grow up from street tales to someone who has money, who has fame, who's traveling in very different circles now. ♪ piece of paper bearing my name ♪ ♪ got the hottest chick in the game wearing my chain ♪ ♪ that's right, hove >> even if he was rapping about some of the same things everybody else was rapping about, street life, moving drugs, it was in such a unique way that he was almost inventing a new language. ♪ sounded like a fool inspector ♪ >> i really loved the "black album." for jay-z to be the first one to get rick rubin to produce in such a long time shows you how special jay is as an artist. >> i was thinking, maybe we start a cappella, if you're having girl problems, i feel bad for your son. i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one. hit me. ♪ fools that want to make sure my casket's closed ♪

>> yeah, that's money. >> rick rubin created so many classic records. the beastie boys and run-dmc taking a break beat and mixing it with an ac/dc guitar stab. that's rick rubin 101. ♪ i pull over to the side of the road ♪ ♪ i heard son, do you know what i'm stopping you for ♪ ♪ because i'm young and i'm black and my hat's real low ♪ ♪ do i look like a mind reader sir i don't know ♪ >> jay-z represented you you can have real longevity in hip-hop. for the longest time new york had been the center of the world in hip-hop. the south for the most part hadn't really made itself heard. that started to change in the 2000s. and you're getting outkast. and outkast is amazing. ♪ >> one, two, one, two, three. ♪ >> outkast became rap's beatles in the 2000s because we found both but particularly andre

becoming more obsessed with a kind of adventurous landscape of music. ♪ >> hip-hop knew about outkast. but then they come out with an album "speakerboxx" and the love below. and they have this song called "hey ya." ♪ ♪ my baby don't mess around because i know for sure ♪ it's barely a hip-hop song really. i'm not sure what it is. but it's got this kind of frothy '60s vibe. it sounds like something motown might have put out when they were doing their "sound of young america." ♪ hey ya ♪ hey ya next thing you know everyone is singing this one line "shake it like a polaroid picture ♪ ♪ shake it ♪ shake it ♪ shake it ♪ shake it like a polaroid picture ♪ polaroid was the instant camera, and the picture came out, and for some strange reason as the

image was forming people would do this. they would shake it. as if that was going to make it happen faster. so he says that line in the song, and suddenly everyone's doing that. you had this cultural moment that everybody feels they need to be part of, then you know you've really tapped into something. and that's what outkast is. >> if you're going to do anything, do it 100%. don't pull the thing out unless you're planning to bang. that sprint's unlimited plan knw gives you 5 lines for just $24 dollars per month, per line. (mom) wow, that would save us... (atlas)...nearly $1,000 dollars? (mom) what about the network? (paul) now sprint has lte advanced. (atlas) it's up to two times faster than before. (mom) no way! (dad) robots don't lie. (atlas) the man in the mom jeans is correct. (avo) get up to two times faster speeds and see how you can for people with hearing loss save nearly $1,000 dollars over verizon and at&t with sprint. visit sprintrelay.com

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♪ american girls ♪ and american guys ♪ we'll always stand up and salute ♪ ♪ we'll always recognize after september 11th we saw this resurgence of patriotism. you know, real reembrace of the american flag from country music and the mainstream nashville community. ♪ you'll be sorry that you messed with the u.s. of a. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> toby keith was the ultimate example of all of that. ♪ because we'll put a boot in your eyes ♪ ♪ it's the american way

>> with all the genres reacting to 9/11, the war, country was probably the most literal and the most outspoken about it. ♪ i pledge allegiance to the flag ♪ ♪ and if that bothers you well that's too bad ♪ ♪ and you say we shouldn't worry about bin laden ♪ ♪ have you forgotten >> in music there was no opposition to that message but when the quote unquote war on terror began they were talking about invading countries. well, then music had a lot took to act in opposition to. >> the dixie chicks are the top country touring act of the year despite the firestorm unleashed by their words during the first days of the war in iraq. >> we're ashamed of the president of the united states is from texas. >> when natalie maines said we're ashamed the president of the united states is our president their career took a beating. >> they used a tractor and their feet to smash their cds.

>> if you want to feel some good old-fashioned american pride, look no further than the uproar over the dixie chicks. >> for you to say i'm ashamed the president's from texas? come on, man. >> say it. >> they were questioning something that you were just supposed to accept. and it was women doing it no less. >> i think they are the dixie twits. these are the dumbest bimbos with all due respect -- >> these are callow foolish women who deserve to be slapped around. >> we're going to wipe out fans for their music, and we're going to wipe out few you've if you don't stop playing it. >> well, ma'am, that was the last one you're going to hear. >> country radio overnight turns its back on the dixie chicks. >> as a result of statements made by members of the dixie chicks at a concert two radio networks banned the dixie chicks from their play lists at a chain level. >> in a way they were more daring than any punk band. >> great to be back at shepherd's bush. we return to the scene of the crime. >> they took on the establishment that wanted to own

them. and they refused to knuckle under. >> i thought i'd say something brand new and just say just so you know we're ashamed the president of the united states is from texas. [ cheers and applause ] >> we've asked artists for decades to be barometers of culture and be voices of dissent. and in the wake of 9/11 it was just seen as a bridge too far. ♪ i waited till i saw the sun >> people wanted escapism at the time because there was a lot to escape. so we were listening to norah jones and jack johnson. ♪ da, da, da, da, da ♪ la, da, da, da, da, da and coldplay. ♪ >> when "yellow" came out a lot of the hipster alternative kids are i love this, and i was one of them. ♪ your skin, oh, yeah, your skin

becomes, turns, something to something beautiful ♪ >> it felt great. it's like here's radiohead and u2 put together in a pop-friendly package that's catchy rock music. ♪ i want to run through the halls of my high school ♪ ♪ i want to scream at the top of my lungs ♪ >> john mayer was this virtuosic guitar player that wrote these sentimental love songs. ♪ if you want love we'll make it ♪ >> he was huge. ♪ swim in a deep sea of blankets ♪ ♪ your body's a wonderland ♪ i use my hands >> in the 2000s rock itself becomes numb, and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. >> post-9/11 some believe familiar music 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. >> everybody's welcome in the nickelback club. we've 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 lost its will to fight. unless you're talking about green day. ♪ ♪ don't want to be an american idiot ♪ >> you can't undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush's america came from green day. ♪ welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alienation, everything is meant to be okay ♪ >> it was kind of like a rock opera. you had to listen to it from front to back because it told the entire story of what was going on in the decade. ♪ wake me up ♪ when september ends >> the fear of terrorism. the media. the wars. people being sent off to fight. ♪ here comes the rain again

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it's coming up. ♪ >> in the early 2000s we come to recognize the idea of producers at arson its. they're no longer relegated to the background. >> one of my favorite timbaland moments is watching him play jay-z "dirt off your shoulder" for the first time. >> oh, man. >> that's the best. >> you got that? >> timbaland really pushed the envelope. it's very much like futuristic music. ♪ is it worth it let me work it ♪

♪ i put my thing down, flip and reverse it ♪ >> that music, a lot of it was space-age driven. ♪ i'm bringing sexy back ♪ them other don't know how to act ♪ >> odd sounds that reflect his own inner ear vision. ♪ i said it's too late to apologize ♪ ♪ it's too late >> timbaland was a little more technologically dense and ethereal, whereas pharrell wasn't as out there. he did like dance tracks. ♪ it's getting hot in here ♪ so take off all your clothes ♪ i am getting so hot, i want to take my clothes off ♪ >> it was a little more gritty. it was very intricate but very rhythmically driven. ♪ uh-huh, this my -- all the girls got to be like this ♪ >> pop stars figure out you need hip-hop cred and you need a hip-hop producer.

♪ i ain't no hollaback girl >> what's interesting about the 2000s is you had a group of hip-hop producers who were crossing over into and topping the pop charts. >> kanye is another one. you know, he's producing and working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludacris and janet jackson. but you know, in there he wants to be his own star. so he releases his first album, "the college drop-out." >> the first single for "college dropout" was a song called "through the wire." ♪ i spin it through the wire >> kanye west gets into a car accident in los angeles and in the hospital with his jaw wired shut he records the song. ♪ ♪ i drink a boost for breakfast and an ensure for dessert ♪ >> it's essentially him rapping about how badly he wants to be a rapper. >> god saved my life. so he has me here for a reason. >> "college dropout" was a cool first album.

♪ drop over in your new whip there are some great singles on there. but "late registration" to me is when it all came together. that's an incredible record. ♪ i've got to testify ♪ come up in the spot looking extra fly ♪ >> he did what the rock star used to, do which was to indulge his narcissistic fantasies through the medium of music. ♪ but the day you die, you're going touch the sky ♪ >> rappers weren't really doing it. musically it was brilliant. look, what is the narrative of the 2000s? well, it's the backpack-wearing dork like mark zuckerberg who becomes a billionaire. and kanye west is the music industry version of that. ♪ my greatest pain in life is i will never be able to see me perform ♪ ♪ so you are welcome to know a pleasure i will never have ♪ >> kanye was a rock star.

but he also makes it safe for rappers to be vulnerable. >> it's positive rap. he's not cussing every other sentence and not talking about shooting people up. he's talking about real things >> what kanye does is sort of bring in a new generation of hip-hop figures and you can see the difference going forward. ♪ i said ♪ i said baby ♪ you all that, we can do it real big, bigger than you ever done it ♪ >> drake took the kanye west blueprint. i'm going to bare my soul and my feelings on a record. ♪ best that i ever had ♪ best i ever had ♪ best i ever had >> it wasn't just hip-hop. r&b had been doing this for a long time in a really kind of personal way. ♪ these are my confessions ♪ just when i thought i could say 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.

♪ >> he has the moves and the style, and i think that he is a big hope for people at that time, that like here's a brother that's really doing it. ♪ i think that you should let it burn ♪ >> we had trey songz and chris brown, usher. but the superstars of r&b are the women. absolutely. ♪ i keep on falling ♪ in and out of love with you >> alicia keys, uber talent. oh my god. sings, composes, and plays. she's the total package. ♪ no one, no one ♪ can get in the way of what i'm feeling ♪ ♪ later r&b becomes much more rhythmic. they're not flowing as the traditionally written r&b songs.

♪ all the single ladies >> and beyonce understood better than anybody how to make r&b for the hip-hop generation. ♪ put your hands up in the club ♪ >> i feel like everyone remembers where they were when they first saw the single ladies video. it was oh my god, how do i learn the dance? i can't learn it fast enough. >> pop it a little bit. >> pop it. okay. >> like stick it. ♪ if you like it then you should have put a ring on it ♪ >> she was a woman speaking for other women. and that was so welcome. ♪ one by one even two by two ♪ everybody in the floor let me show you how we do ♪ >> rihanna comes along and she's much more r&b than she is pop. she's got the sort of caribbean feel in her music. and there's something really fresh about her. ♪ it's in the thief in the night to come and grab you, it's the creep up inside you and consume you ♪ >> rihanna had this incredibly ambitious idea of what pop music was.

♪ disturbia >> and kept redefining herself as the edgiest, nastiest, most sophisticated pop star out there. ♪ now that it's rain mortgage than ever, know that we still have each other, you can stand under my umbrella ♪ >> "umbrella." i don't think there's probably a person in the whole world that doesn't know that song and wasn't walking around going eh, eh, eh, for like months at a time. ♪ stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, ella ♪ ♪ eh, eh, eh >> toward the end of the decade with artists like rihanna, the danceable riffs of hip-hop led into r&b and pop. and hip-hop became bigger and bigger and bigger. it became the top. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] hey! hey, uh, quick question. do you like paying for things you don't need? no. and do you want to get things you love for free? who wouldn't? exactly! right. that's why verizon decided

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(avo) get zero percent during the subaru share the love event. through the '90s if you were a band from new york you could count on getting laughed out of the room pretty much anywhere else in the country. new york was just a place where rock and roll was thought of as dead. >> in the 2000s the predominant music generally is hip-hop. and that's the case in new york. no one's thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ last night, she said, oh baby, i feel so down ♪

>> after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ sunlight >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. it needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. >> right now they're the most important band in the world for what they may inspire the people to do. ♪ last night >> much in the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the '90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of other acts. ♪ she can wait ♪ ♪ she can't read, she can't read, she's blind ♪ >> the first ones to break after the strokes in terms of new york artists is interpol and yeah yeah yeahs. these are strange people. they're countercultural by nature. karen oh, she's this violent, swaggering rock boy.

and this heartbroken teary rock girl. ♪ and "maps" is one of those tracks that launched a thousand young female singers in their bedroom somewhere. ♪ wait, they don't love me like i love you ♪ . ♪ wait, they don't love me like i love you ♪ >> so you have this resurgence of rock, but you also have this resurgence of brooklyn and indie music. >> please welcome tv on the radio. ♪ ♪ i want you to lay hands on me ♪ >> tv on the radio, they were a multiethnic, multiracial band coming out of the brooklyn rock scene. you know, they were scholars of music. ♪ >> they made very proggy but also very punky rock that sounded like nothing else that had ever been done.

♪ daft punk is playing at my house, my house ♪ >> lcd sound system is maybe the most brooklyn band that has ever emerged from brooklyn. ♪ i'll show you the ropes >> they were a huge success of james murphy's ability to make pristine electronic music that still had a soul in it. ♪ we're all friends tonight ♪ where are your friends tonight ♪ >> what you start to see is not a genre of music or a trend. it's a scene. >> and although they were not a new york band arcade fire seemed connected spiritually to that moment. ♪ kill the dream, wake up, hold your mistake up ♪ >> arcade fire was this big anthemic rock band that made

these songs you just wanted to holler along with. ♪ and to me it felt like the moment indie rock crossed over into something bigger. ♪ holiday, oh holiday ♪ and the best time of the year ♪ it's the first time you had indie bands soundtracking commercials for mainstream multinational products, in part because everyone is trying to figure out how do i make money now that no one will pay for my albums. ♪ one two three take my hand and count with me because you look so fine i really want to make you mine ♪ >> historically there had been some wariness about selling your music to advertisers. it was seen as selling out. in the 2000s that totally disappeared. ♪ rock with me ♪ rock with me >> there's all these songs that became iconic primarily through their use in ipod commercials. ♪ one, two, three, four

♪ tell me what you're looking for ♪ >> now indie culture was cool and you could market yourself as part of this new indie global community. ♪ indy rock and roll is what i want ♪ ♪ >> you get killers or kings of leon. ♪ ♪ >> and, of course, the white stripes. ♪ ♪ >> they all step into the role of capital r rock star. ♪ ♪ >> people thought the strokes were going to save rock. you felt that there was going to be a movement forward. exami and for a while it worked, but ultimately it didn't change the musical landscape. you could say the white stripes

or ar kied fircade fire, the la big rock band in the classical sense. ♪ ♪ >> so what happened? in the early 2000s, the electric guitar started to be replaced by this song sequencing software, and you started to see the future is not rock music. the groundbreaking artist who is going to completely change what we think good music sounds like is not going to be playing an electric guitar. ♪ ♪ ♪ there's no place like home ♪

argh! i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪

♪ ♪ if we started the decade with boy bands, we end the decade with solo women ruling the pop world. and lady gaga is at the height of her power. ♪ ♪ >> listening to something like poker face or bad romance, you

can tell she was a student of rock music. she was a student of disco. she was a student of the drag balls. she was somebody who wanted to combine all those elements into really aggressive hard-hitting pop music. ♪ ♪ >> for me it was no longer enough to wear a pretty gown on the red carpet. you had to make art. you had to make a statement. >> you asked me if my music was distracted by my sexuality. if i was a guy and i was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand grabbing my crotch and talking about how i make music because i love fast cars and [ bleep ]-ing girls, you'd call me a rock star. >> lady gaga is a female empowerment role model and this is just the beginning of girls running the world. ♪ ♪ >> we have katy perry, shakira.

nicki minaj. you have taylor swift just coming into her own. ♪ ♪ >> taylor swift is a song writer, and at an i mpossibly early age she comes up with the single of the decade, "you belong with me." ♪ ♪ >> and that just straps her career to a rocket. ♪ ♪ ♪ you belong to me, you belong to me, you belong to me ♪ ♪ >> we saw someone like taylor swift become a huge sensation because of her my space page, posting her music on her page. look where she is now. it's pretty incredible. >> by the end of that decade, artists would make their own music and put it up on my space, and all of a sudden you can have a career. >> in the internet age, it's become a do it yourself operation. hang your star on youtube and see how brightly it shines.

♪ ♪ >> justin bieber was the first of the youtube kids. he was using the new tools of the internet to really do an end run around the traditional industry. ♪ ♪ i was like baby, baby, baby oh, baby, baby, baby ♪ ♪ >> in the 2000s, the music industry was undergoing a massive shift with all the technological change. and the fact that the price of music had effectively been ground down to zero. >> i'm standing outside where i used to buy my cds, a store that is now shuttered and shutdown as you can tell like so many other music stores across the country. >> by the end of the decade, the music business was falling off a cliff. it seemed like all of it was gone. reduced to rubble. >> the shuttering this weekend of virgin's last two stores 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 youtube, myspace, and file sharing software was the way people were discovering new music. what do you do? you get all the people that you've heard online together in one act, and you charge 130 bucks to see it. and this proved to be a very successful model. ♪ ♪ >> the one that really set it off was bona ru and then coachella. >> so, you came here from england for this if >> for the festival, yeah, man. why not? it's coachella. >> all of a sudden that same generation that's discovering music pier to pier online wants to be somewhere in that field with the pier enjoying the live music experience. >> i've seen about 40 different bands, any type of music you can imagine.

>> the music vefestivals, there would always be this dee jay tent. over the years that tent kept getting bigger and bigger. >> the superstar dee jays, dip low, david getta, cascade, these guys were pulling in millions as headliners. >> hip-hop stars are becoming rock stars. dee jays are becoming rock stars. the only people who aren't becoming rock stars are rock stars. >> pop. ♪ ♪ >> the idea of just standing there and staring at someone on stage is a 20th century idea, whereas in the 21st century, it's more interactive. it's more about us. as an organism. >> come on. >> clap your hands. >> clap your hands. clap your hands, y'all. clap your hands. >> in the 2000s, we saw an

industry that seemed like it would never change. we saw it being forced to change. ♪ i got a feeling ♪ >> online distribution of music broke down the barriers of taste, and suddenly everyone was listening to everything. ♪ good night, that tonight's gonna be a good, good night ♪ ♪ >> with the help of a computer, the past is cool stuff that you can discover. that's what a whole generation of new music makers do. yes, the 2000s was the age of the machine, but that's not a search for the soul inside the machine. ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ /s implicated in two federal crimes, lawmakers from both sides have a blunt message for the u.s. president. no one is above the law. the action from lawmakers ahead. >> plus, the final moments of jamal khashoggi, a cnn exclusive report revealing his very last words. >> also, thousands of people without power after -- look at that massive winter storm slammed the southern part of the united states. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and from all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm george howell from cnn headquarters in atlanta. newsroom starts right now. ♪ ♪