Hard to believe the first decade of the 2000s will be over in just a few months. I’m trying to think of the big styles, fashions, movies, songs, tv shows, etc, that people are going to remember 20 or 30 years from now.
If someone makes the quintessential high school/college “00s” movie in, say, 2030, what will have to be in it? Based on my observations, the Travis Barker/“flatbiller” look; nautical star tattoos, lifted trucks, black baseball caps, etc., will be how they costume a lot of the people.
Superhero and fantasy films seem to have been the biggest: Star Wars series, LotR series, Harry Potter series, Spider-Man series, Batman series, X-Men series, Superman, Iron Man, Hulk, Pirates series, Shrek series.
Ipods and cell phones really took off.
Rap and “alternative” rock don’t seem to be the only choices in popular music anymore, like they were when I was in high school in the '90s. Emo, and underground/independent music seem to be a lot more common. Also, it seems to be ok for guys to listen to really poppy stuff now, like Rihanna and Lil Wayne. When I was in school, whatever you listened to - rock, rap, metal, or punk - had to at least give off the image, to your fellow teenagers, of being “tough”. An essential element of emo, as I understand it, is kind of the opposite of that.
Family Guy seems to be the dominant tv show among young people.
The Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and Call of Duty series of video games have been extremely popular.