There songwriting has been consistently good-to-superb throughout their career, so even once the aesthetics of 00s pop-punk wear thin (and, conversely, the backlash against that sound softens as the genre loses prominence), the hooks still remain and can be appreciated without all of the attached scenester disdain.
TLDR: The choruses are damn good
A feel good ad campaign that started as "motivate the populace to lift spirits through COVID" and then they tried to pivot to "support the president in all his actions"
Can't speak highly enough of the Zoom Party/Concert the team here organized for tonight. Above and beyond what I expected. For anyone who wants to revisit any of the tracks, I made a Spotify playlist of the studio versions of songs people did tonight.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Y6dHsOCSESy2YgaVPS8qY?si=AxhzpCRKR72omGVFpdZ6Vg
Is it a hot take to say Reznor is the most talented person to emerge from the entire 90s alt rock scene? (Yeah PHM was 1989 but hey.)
Also, good shout out to the slowed-down-cover trend that's plagued trailers forever now. It's so overdone and ineffective at this point... a crappy coffeehouse rendition of The Cranberries is not gonna make me buy a Dodge
I think you've hit the nail on the head - those albums kind of capped off that 00s era of peak blog indie zeitgeist. The new wave of artists that came after to fill their shoes as the mid-10s leaders of 'indie' - Mitski, Car Seat Headrest, Tame Impala, The War on Drugs, Father John Misty - largely drew on other decades for sounds and influences rather than a natural continuation of the 00s bands. And even when you could draw somewhat of a through line from, say, The Strokes to (early) Parquet Courts, those bands always felt like they were always beloved but never moment-defining.
It manages to define a genre, like you said, while also sounding completely one-of-a-kind and impossible to replicate. It also hasn't lost an inch of its bite in 20 years.
Not to be *that one* but I think we should be careful when expressing sentiments like this. It can reinforce the notion that these women “should have known what to expect” or whatever.
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