In the 2000s-ish I started to think music was in decline and could never again rival the music of the late 20th century. But then I thought maybe I was just ge

In the 2000s-ish I started to think music was in decline and could never again rival the music of the late 20th century. But then I thought maybe I was just getting older, and maybe the kids all loved new 2000s music. But then after 2010-ish, it was like music came back, and is now great again, and it turns out I wasn’t just getting older - music really did go through a creative wasteland in the 2000s. Naturally, these are very broad strokes, and there are exceptions.