A friend of mine and I are always discussing the music boom that was in the mid-to-late 90's spawned off of grunge music and alternative music. And woe be it from me to sound old here, but I can't really see anything new happening in the new millenium. It seems every decade has had some sort of musical movement if not 2 or 3, but the new millenium no such luck. Just quickly listing out some of the decades
50's- Original Rock like Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc. Rhythm and Blues, Skipple (for the brits on the board)
60's- British Rock (Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc.), Acid Rock (Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, etc.), Hard Rock (Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, etc.), Folk, Motown (which I guess some could be in the 50's too). There's probably way more since 60's were a pivotal time in music.
70's- Glam Rock, Disco, Funk, Arena Rock, Punk, Teen Pop (like the Partridge Family, Leif Cassidy, etc.)
80's - New Wave, Hair Metal, Old School Rap, Hardcore, Ska (the last two could also fall into 90's)
90's- Grunge, Alternative, Gangsta Rap, Nu Metal, Rap-Metal
So for the New Millenium are there any new styles emerging. It seems to me that the music creators just have such control over what is played on the radio and so forth that they're not going to allow some sort of new thing to emerge. I keep thinking how in the 80's everything was about Motley Crue, Poison, Skid Row and along came Nirvana and the whole industry changed. It was really dramatic and sudden, I'm hoping something will happen, or is there something I totally missed?