Decade's End II: This Time It's Serious

[koganbot]

All right, if all goes well I'm writing a decade's end music essay for the LVW, though this endeavor will have a breath-taking finish given that, for some reason, Las Vegas ends its decade on December 4 rather than December 31, which means my drop-dead deadline is probably the 1st, if not earlier. And I'm going to be on planes for part of the time between now and then. And I have something else due on the 2nd.

One thing I want is for the essay to allude to the multitude of such essays that my essay could have been but isn't. So you can help me by posting in the comments what you think the story of the decade in music is. Just list one.

In situations like this I wish I did Twitter. If those Twitterers among you wish to ask the question and paste in the answers here, please do.

Comments

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I just want to clarify that when I say weird/personal/unique, it's not the same as confessional. I don't think I got the point across in my original comment, because a couple of people seem to have taken my use of "personal" to mean "emotionally intimate," but what I mean is "specific to a person."

Only one of the first three B/N Fleetwood Mac albums would fit the weirdness I was talking about: Tusk. And what's interesting to me about this decade is that that kind of music-making -- it was thought of as "out there" and risky, a flop compared to the cleaner and easier Rumours, it was a calculated swing away from the mainstream and toward the sounds of less popular bands -- has actually become the mainstream. You're taking more of a risk now if you don't release a total WTF of a single/album/video.