so we were listening to norah jones and jack johnson. ♪ da, da, da, da, da ♪ ♪ la, da, da, da, da, dat'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. ♪ and 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 a