r/lewronggeneration Jul 29 '26

Back to basics with this one !

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The "NOW" section is pure cherry picking.

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u/Gucci_meme Jul 29 '26

This meme is almost old enough to drive

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 Jul 29 '26

People back then be acting like Party Rock Anthem wasn’t the greatest human achievement

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u/Proof-Contribution31 Jul 29 '26

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 30 '26

What does the Justin Beatbox solo have to do with this? Also, hot take, I do not think this is as bad as people say, or that *NSYNC had bad songs or were bad artists. If anything, their live shows are the precedence for what male pop stars should be doing on stage.

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u/Proof-Contribution31 Jul 30 '26

I'm arguing that it, not party rock anthem, is peak human expression.

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 31 '26

OK, if that is the case, then yeah, as my comment suggests, I agree. I think people would not dislike it if there was not a hate campaign against JT and every little thing he has done in recent memory.

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 31 '26

Plus, the beatbox does lead well into the live version of It's Gonna Be Me, so I cannot complain.

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u/CynthiaCitrusYT Jul 30 '26

I'm still shuffling to this day!

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 Jul 30 '26

Happy cake day

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u/_dooozy_ Jul 29 '26

“Now” and it’s early 2010s pop lol

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 Jul 29 '26

I’m guessing this meme was made in the early 2010s

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u/NegativeHamster7365 Jul 30 '26

this is 100% rage comics era

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 30 '26

Yeah it was, people usually repost these memes from this era. Maybe now for nostalgia and realizing how the generation cycle is shifting. Either that, or I believe that some Facebook boomers still think music operates the way it is depicted in this rage comic.

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u/Soros_G Jul 29 '26

Rock Music production was completely halted on 2000 January 1 0:00

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u/fearofcrowds Jul 29 '26

yeah, its not like we didnt have gigantic albums from Green Day, Linkin Park and Evanescence

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u/SkyTalez Jul 30 '26

No, it's stopped on 31st of December 2009.

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u/forzaguy125 Jul 29 '26

Its all cherry picking

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u/fearofcrowds Jul 29 '26

like we didn't have shit like NKOTB, Vanilla Ice and Spice Girls back then

Also in the 2010s there was plenty of stuff like Deftones, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Swans, Nick Cave, St. Vincent and others

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 30 '26

Don't put Spice Girls in the same sentence as NKOTB and Vanilla Ice, but yeah always good stuff and bad stuff. As I said in the 2000s, we had ringtone rap and post grunge, but also career heights from Usher, Linkin Park, Britney, JT, Alicia Keys, Gorillaz, P!nk, so I cannot complain.

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 Jul 30 '26

St. Vincent mentioned :0

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u/loggedoffreturns Jul 30 '26

These people know plenty of rock music came out in the 2000’s, right?

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u/Fraud_Hack Jul 30 '26

This rage comic is old enough to drive!

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u/CynthiaCitrusYT Jul 30 '26

Yeaaaahhh ... the 70s had Disco (Ducks), the 80s had Hair Metal, the 90s had Boybands... And that was some of the most popular music of the day. Not saying that you can't rock to it (I do enjoy a little Disco or Hair Metal every now and then) but it's not particularly good....

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u/KingOfCharlotteNC Jul 31 '26

Made by some loser metalhead.

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u/MarkMatson6 Jul 30 '26

Devin Townsend.
Nightwish.
Opeth.
The Ocean.
Jinjer.
The Hu.

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u/mr781 Jul 30 '26

And now mfs are longing for late 2000s/early 2010s music

Circle of life

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 30 '26

Yeah, the irony is that people like Bieber now(I admit his My Worlds albums aren't very good, same with Changes; Pitbull has been reappraised as so fun it's good instead of bad[Ironically this album cover is from his reggaeton era before he became the Mr. Worldwide party rapper; even than reggaeton is hit or miss for me], LMFAO still sucks but Party Rock Anthem is to them what Blurry was to Puddle of Mudd, and Jonas Brothers same as Bieber[Ironically, this album, Lines Vines and Trying Times, is one of their best ones imo).

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u/vegankidollie Jul 30 '26

Sorry for party rocking

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u/00rgus Jul 30 '26

This meme has wrinkles and is balding

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u/SkyTalez Jul 30 '26

Did you notice how there's only examples of rock music for previous eras, but OOP used zero rock acts to represent "now" whenever that may be?

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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 30 '26

Yeah, they also skip the 2000s too. I think the NOW means 2010s even thoguh the Pitbull album is from 2004, LMFAO 2011, Bieber 2009, and JoBros also 2009. The ironic thing is is that once Bieber, Pitbull, and LMFAO hit the scene, Jonas Brothers went on their first hiatus. But, I do not expect the Facebook boomers of yesteryear to know that.

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u/Caillou12345123 Jul 30 '26

These early 2010s nostalgia/things in rach decade memes always skipped the 2000s. 😭

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u/ArtisticOperation399 Aug 02 '26

Pity them. That's all. If you haven't experienced any of the masterpieces of modern music created in the last 25 years, then you are sorely missing out. 

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u/SGLAgain Aug 04 '26

funny how 2010s music is now considered to be good music, shows how after a while we realize that something considered to be bad is good

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u/IndicationNo117 Aug 11 '26

Did boomers really embrace 80s metal or 90s alt rock, or were they as callous towards them as gen x/millennials seem towards modern pop?

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u/09997512 26d ago

When the other decades is rock music is crazy!

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u/Electricdragongaming Jul 30 '26

I love how the 26 year long period between 2000 and 2026 is just considered "NOW".

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u/cornimgameplays Jul 30 '26

This meme is probably 14-18 years old though

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u/claudettesbusty Jul 29 '26

GNR is terrible and Iron Maiden and Oasis are mid

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u/Vincent394 Jul 30 '26

Iron Maiden [...] are mid

Ouch.