stardancer

Hey guys.

For my media class at school we were each given a decade and we have to research a band/artist who was the msot influential of that decade.I got the 2000's, and am completely blank for ideas.

Any one have any ideas/suggestion?

Any help would be VERY MUCH appreciated!

The Fifth Element

I have a few I guess:

Sarah McLachlan, Radiohead, Norah Jones, John Mayer

Hope that's what you were asking for [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img].

silvercrystal

How influential? Worldwide or in the country that you're in? I studied media last year but we didn't look at music. Are you looking at how the media influences the tastes of people?

Just throwing out a few names.

Norah Jones, Dido, Bond (a classical music girl band, really good and different), Bright Eyes, Evanescence (responsible for introducing more of a goth rock sound to the pop music scene). Take a look at the album charts and see what seems to be doing really well etc...

You could look at how rock music seems to be a big thing for kids at the moment. You see kids with hoodies advertising bands like Korn, Linkin Park etc... whereas this would have not been very common int he past.

Hope that helps in some way [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Silversun

It's kinda silly you got assigned the 2000s when we're only in early 2004. A bit unfair, really!

Evanescence is a big one if you're looking at nu metal. Linkin Park falls into that category too, but they came out in the late 1990s.

Coldplay is a great one to do. Sort of brought back the sensitive lad rock after boisterous Britpop.

Rap/Hip-hop is huge at the moment so someone leading in that field would be hugely influential. But that's really not my genre so I wouldn't know who to suggest. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

David Gray led a slew of singer-songwriters into the market, such as John Mayer, Tom McRae etc.

I think Radiohead were the forerunners of influence in the 1990s but not so much the 2000s.

*Juli*

The only thing about that is it is kind of subjective. I mean, Good Charlotte have been THE most influential to me but to so many people, GC are just another band.

I guess it depends on how a person connects with a band more so because everyone has different tastes and are influenced by something different than the next, you know what I mean? [img]smilies/look.gif[/img]

Personally, my answer would be Good Charlotte in my life for every reasons imaginable, although for some other people, they'd disagree.

I guess it depends on what each person likes because if we connect with it so deeply, it influenced us. But if we don't like it, we kind of think that it wasn't really influential. Though that might make the answers you get kind of biased, like mine was [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I love GC more than I can possibly put down into words so that makes me biased when I say they are influential.

Some people here may be able to look at it with a more objective point of view for you. Sorry I just rambled and couldn't be more help [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

[ 03-29-2004: Message edited *Juli* ]