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>> ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! >> may i have your attention please? >> the dixie chicks. >> billboard's top 10 singles, all by black artists. >> i don't please everybody with who i am as a person. >> i love beyonce. >> is not a working telephone is it? >> empty shelves are all you will find at tower records. it's now out of business. ♪ ♪

♪ >> three, two, one! >> this is a very special moment of the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! ♪ ♪ >> i will 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 rem.

♪ ♪ >> it's the end of the world as we know it, it's the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine. ♪ ♪ >> it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be an apocalyptic decade. >> happy new year! >> we wake up, it's 2000, we are all alive, and we are in the middle of teen pop mania. >> ♪ ♪ >> boy bands were selling so many albums. ♪ ♪ >> this is the biggest year in pop music history in terms of sales. you have britney spears selling 1.3 million copies of "loops, i did it again" in the first week.

>> everyone is falling in love with boy bands and girl groups, and then justin timberlake leaves and sink. the band and sink. with his debut album, he established his sound and it was instantly appealing to a pop audience and also r&b. ♪ ♪ >> justin timberlake, leaving násync becomes a model for what can be done. ♪ ♪ >> you talk about people who are always going to be bigger, that was beyonce. her solo album in 2003, first single was "crazy in love" with an incredible sample and that catches your ear. beyonce, you are already hooked on that song. >> i remember being asks, what

you think, christine or britney? i said, beyonce. ♪ ♪ >> "crazy in love," that's how it begins. overnight she became an icon, a deeply respected figure. >> beyonce! >> in the early 2000, the industry was dominated by pop sensations and booming cd sales, that they were totally oblivious to the new generation that did not think music was something you ought to pay for. >> using a pc to download music is one of the hottest trends, and has recording companies up in arms and in court. >> in the late '90s and early 2000's, the industry became complacent. abel said, you have to start investing in the technology that comes after and they refused to do it. >> some of rock 'n roll's bad boys are picking a fight with

the internet site, napster.com. >> it 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 music. >> we started this thing called x metallica fan.org, asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica it >> i'm glad your next metallica fan because i don't want you to be a fan if that's your attitude. >> i embraced filesharing. >> if you have, you know, you got off napster, rock, please. >> we were plucked out of obscurity and given a career. ♪ ♪

>> so, we suddenly had a platform for sharing music, to the frustration of the label i was on. >> napster built 1 million 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 benefit the parties involved, the artists, the industry, and users. >> they should've been an early version of itunes. it's a tragedy didn't happen. >> he was court of appeals has ruled that napster is infringing on copyrighted music, letting users steal songs. >> the executives did not want any kind of itunes style distribution infrastructure that would fit with the internet because they were terrified of unbundling the single from the out album. for a long time, the been able to take one hit song, like

"obligated," and at that comes out in the late '90s, the move 20 million albums at $10 each. later, it won't. the move 20 million songs at $.99 each. so you just lost 90% of your revenue. >> cd sales have dropped one quarter in just three years. that an awful lot of lost business. >> labels did not want this to happen that they were powerless to stop it. [upbeat music] [sound of tape application] i just need you to sign option three. [cheering]

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it's inevitable that just about the time i am becoming aware of hip-hop culture, it's literally coming of age. hip-hop has been around 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 !" >> it just got a little easier. >> we are seeing hip-hop in everything. it's in soda commercials, soundtracks, bumper music and sports. fashion. shoes. everything. >> how do you do it? >> in the hood, we just -- >> in that moment, a lot of rappers were celebrating what

they had accomplished. rappers, jermaine dupree, jay- z, all saying to the world, can you believe this? this is about survival and surviving racism in america and we are going to share this with the world. ♪ ♪ >> hip-hop is actually the predominant music, and then, what really takes it over the top is a young rapper from detroit. ♪ ♪ >> in 2000, eminem puts out the marshall mathers lp , being his real name, and suddenly the biggest are in hip-hop is eminem, bar none. eminem came from a white working-class background and those are the stories he told her they put him on a different

level as he brought his own authenticity. ♪ ♪ >> i saw "8 mile" in times square, opening night, in front of the theater. it was one of the most satisfying experiences i ever had. listen, when these songs come to yourself, to those speakers, that the big moment. >> the author oscar goes to eminem for "lose yourself"! >> it's not quite perfect but it was pretty good. >> in the 2000's, rappers were not content to be musicians. they had to be actors and producers and label bosses themselves. so, in the video, dr. dre and eminem set up a rhett laboratory. we see $.50 doing his routine

and it pans to this nightclub environment where he is chatting with models and drinking expensive champagne, so what they are really doing is perfect in the science of the club. >> if you have kids now, it's probably rap, they are using to drive you up the wall, and the big star is $.50. >> your grandmother is absolutely getting down in the club. she's getting down to it. >> i mean, that was everywhere. it was in a commercial. >> it sounds like he's integrated his in the club. >> the difference between '90s and the 2000 is his idea of business. >> jay-z is the reigning king of rap. he owns a record label, clothing line, and movie production company , generating almost half $1 billion a year

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♪ after september 11th, we saw this resurgence of patriotism. you know, really embrace of the american flag, from country music and the mainstream national community. >> toby keith was the ultimate example of that. >> with all of the genres reacting to 9/11, the war, country was probably the most literal and outspoken about it.

♪ ♪ >> in music, there was no opposition to that message, but when the "war on terror" began, we are talking about invading countries, then music had a lot to ask in opposition to. >> the dixie chicks are the top entry touring active year despite the firestorm unleashed by their words during the first days of the war in iraq. >> when natalie maine said, we are so ashamed of our president right now, there career took a severe beating. >> protesters used a tractor to smash the groups cds. >> we want to feel some good old-fashioned american pride, look no further than the uproar over the dixie chicks. >> to say that you are ashamed

that the president, from texas? >> square one, right? >> they were questioning something you were just supposed to accept, and it was women doing it, no less. >> they are twits. the dumbest bid >> these are foolish women who deserve to be slapped around. >> we are going to boycott you. >> that was the last one you'll hear. >> country radio, overnight, turns its back on them. >> as a result of statement made by the members of the dixie chicks, they banned them from that level. >> they were more daring than any punk fans. >> we return to the scene of the crime. >> they took on the establishment that wanted to own them and they refused to knuckle under. >> just so you know, we are ashamed of the president of

united states. >> we have asked artists, for decades, to be barometers of culture and be voices of dissent. in the wake of 9/11, it was seen as a bridge too far. >> people wanted escapism, at the time, because there was a lot to escape. we were listening to "norah jones" and jack johnson. and coldplay. >> when "yellow" came out, a lot of the alternative kids were like, i love this, and i was one of them. ♪ >> it felt great. it's like, here's radiohead and

u2, put together in a pop friendly package that is catchy rock music. john mayer was this virtuosic guitar player that wrote sentimental love songs. he was huge. ♪ ♪ >> in the 2000's, 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. ♪ ♪ >> they had bigger hits than anybody. >> everyone is welcoming nickleback. ♪ ♪ >> a lot of rock is not really

doing what used to do and it's almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you are talking about green day. ♪ ♪ >> you can't undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush's america came from green day. >> is 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. the fear of terrorism, the war, people being sent to fight. rock was not all that surprising in the 2000's, so when you got something like "american idiot", it was, wow, this is unexpected, this is

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in the early 2000's, we come to recognize the idea of producers as artists. they are no longer relegated to the background. >> one of my favorite timberland moments is watching him play jay-z for the first time. >> the best there is. mike you got that? >> it pushed the envelope point it's very much futuristic music. >> that music, a lot of it was space-age. ♪ ♪ >> odd sounds that reflect his own inner ear vision.

timberland was a little more technologically dense and ethereal, where ferrone was not is out there. he did dance tracks. ♪ ♪ >> it was a little more gritty and it was very intricate but very rhythmically driven. >> pop stars figure out that you need hip-hop credit and you need a hip-hop reducer. producer. >> you had a grouping of hip- hop producers who were crossing over into pop charts. >> kanye is another one, he's working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludicrous and janet jackson.

but, in there, he wants to be his own star, so he releases his first album, "the college dropout." >> the first single was "through the wire." kanye west get into a car accident in los angeles and in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, he records the song. ♪ ♪ >> it's essentially him rapping about how bad he wants to be a rapper. >> so, he has me here for a reason. >> "the college dropout" was a cool first album. you have great singles, but "late registration" is when it all came together. that's an incredible record. >> he did with the rock stars used to do, which was indulge his narcissistic fantasies

through the medium of music. ♪ ♪ >> rappers weren't really doing it. what was the narrative of the 2000? the backpack wearing dork, like mark zuckerberg who becomes a billionaire and kanye west, he's the music industry version of that. >> my greatest pain in life is to never see me perform. you are welcome to know a pleasure i will never have. >> he was a rock star but he makes it safe for rappers to be vulnerable. but he's not cussing in every sentence and he's not talking about shooting people. he's talking about real things. >> what kanye does is bring in a new generation of hip-hop figures and you can see the difference, going forward.

♪ ♪ >> drake took the kanye west blueprint, i'm going to bare my soul and my feelings on her record. on a record. >> it wasn't just hip-hop. r&b had been doing it for a long time, in a personal way. ♪ ♪ >> ushers "confessions" was personal and relatable. he laid it all out there. >> he has the mix and the style, and i think that he is a big help for people at that time, but here is a brother really doing it. ♪ >> you have chris brown, usher, trey songz, but the stars of r&

b are the women. absolutely. ♪ ♪ alicia keys, were talented. sings, composes, and plays? she's the total package. ♪ ♪ >> later, r&b becomes much more rhythmic and not written as flowing as a traditional r&b song. and, beyoncc understood better than anybody how to make r&b, for a hip-hop generation. ♪ ♪ >> everyone rivers where they were when they first saw the "single ladies" video, like oh my god, how i learn the dance? i can't learn it fast enough. >> poppet, okay. >> bring your hand. stick it.

♪ ♪ >> she was a woman speaking for other women and that was so welcome. rihanna comes along and she's much more r&b than pop, with this caribbean feel in her music and there's something really fresh about her. ♪ ♪ >> rihanna did this in viciously . ♪ and, she kept redefining herself as the edginess, nastiest, most sophisticated popstar out there. ♪ ♪ >> "umbrella", i don't think there's a person in the whole world that doesn't know that song and wasn't walking around singing it.

we are like, doing that months at a time. ♪ ♪ >> so, toward the end of the decade, what artists like rihanna did, bled into r&b and pop and hip-hop became bigger and bigger and bigger. it became pop.

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♪ through '90s, if you are banned from new york, you can count on getting laughed out of the room anywhere in the country. new york is where rock 'n roll was thought of as "dead." >> in 2000, the predominant music with hip-hop. no one is thinking about new york as the center for interesting rock music anymore. after 9/11, these bands bubbling the underneath the surface and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ ♪ >> after 9/11, the city was burning. it was smoldering. vulnerability, anxiety, this became how the country felt. we needed the sense of defiance , that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. >> they may inspire other

people. >> 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. ♪ ♪ >> the first ones to break after the strokes, in terms of new york, is interpol and the yeah yeah yeah's. they are counterculture by nature. karen o is this violent, swaggering rock boy and heartbroken teary rock girl. it's one of those tracks that launched 1000 young female singers in their bedrooms somewhere.

>> you have this resurgence of rock, and this resurgence of brooklyn and indie music. >> please welcome tv on the radio! ♪ ♪ >> they were a multiethnic, multiracial band out of the brooklyn rock scene. ♪ ♪ >> they made very proud rock punk rock that sounded like nothing else that had ever been done. ♪ ♪ >> they were maybe the most brooklyn band that had ever emerged. >> they were a huge success because of james abilities ability to make pristine music

that still had soul. what you start to see is not a genre of music or a trend, but a scene. although they were not a new york band, arcade fire connected to that moment. ♪ ♪ >> arcade fire was this big endemic rock band that made those songs that you wanted to holler along with. ♪ ♪ >> to me, it felt like the moment that indie rock crossed over into something bigger. ♪ ♪

>> it's the first time you had indie bands soundtrack and 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? ♪ ♪ >> historically, there had been wariness about selling your music to advertisers. it was seen as selling out. the 2000, that disappeared. there are all of the songs that became iconic primarily through their use in ipod commercials. >> now, indie culture was cool and you can market yourself as part of this new global in the community. you get the killers, or kings of leon. of course, the white

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if we started the decade with boy bands, we ended the decade with solo women rolling the pop world and lady gaga is at the height of her power. [ music ] >> listening to something like poker face or bad romance, you could tell that she was a student of rock music. she was a student of disco. she was somebody who wanted to combine all those elements into really, aggressive, hard- hitting music. >> suddenly it was no longer

enough to wear a pretty down on the red carpet. you had to make art and make a statement. >> you asked me if i music was distracted by my sexuality. if i was a guy with a cigarette and grabbing my talking about how i make music because i love fast cars and bleeped girls you would call me a rockstar. >> 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 songwriter and at an impossibly early age. she comes up with what might be the single of the decade. you belong with me.

>> and that chest straps her career to a rocket. >> we saw someone like taylor swift become a huge sensation because of her my space page posting her music on her page and look where she is now. >> by the end of that decade artists would create their own music and put it up on my space and all of a sudden you could have a career. >> the internet age has 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.

>> in the 2000's music had a shift with the technology goal change. >> i'm standing outside were used to buy my cds. a store that is now shattered and shut down 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 seems like all of it was gone. reduced to rubble. >> the shuttering this weekend of the closing of virgins last two stores marks the death of a once booming chain with another nail in the coffin of the music cd. >> by the mid-2000's music labels realize youtube, my space and files sharing software was the way people were discovering music. so what you do? you get all the people you have heard online together in one act and you charge $130 to see

it and that proved to be a very successful model. [ music ] >> the one that really set it off was vona room and then coachella. >> all of a sudden that same generation that's discovering music online wants to be somewhere in the field with that peer joining the live music experience. >> i've seen about 40 different bands. any type of music you can imagine. >> music festivals would always be in a dj tent and over the years that tents kept adding bigger and bigger. >> the superstar djs, diplo, david guetta, these guys are

pulling in millions of headliners. the pop stars are becoming rockstar's. djs are becoming rock stars. people who are not becoming rockstar's are rock stars. the idea of just standing there and staring at someone on stage is a 20th-century idea where in the 21st century it's more interactive and it's more about us as an organism. >>, on! clap your hands. >> in the 2000's we saw an industry that seems like it would never change. we saw it be forced to change. online distribution of music broke down the barriers of taste and suddenly everyone was listening to everything.

>> with the help of a computer the past is just cool stuff that you can discover and that's what a whole generation of new music makers do. the 2000's are the age of the machine but that does not mean there's not a search for a soul inside the machine. >>