2000S

FASHIONChavs and Mosher's - Chavs favored hip-hop fashions like tracksuits, burberry baseball caps, white trainers, and cheap sportswear. Common haircuts included spiky hair, a heavily gelled quiffs. Popular clothing also included No Fear T-shirts, webbing belts, camouflage cargo pants, carpenter jeans and fingerless glove.

Nu-Metal, Rave and Goth - from the mid-2000s onwards, ravers favored spiky hair and phat pants, while others opted for shaved heads, synthetic neon dreadlocks, camouflage, tight leather pants, chains, platform boots, stretched body piercings, sleeve tattoos.

‘Vintage’ - from 2003–2007 indie culture went mainstream in both Britain and the US, prompting a revival of 1960s, vintage clothing. Other subcultures, including American preppies and even rappers like Kanye West, imitated indie fashions or combined them with elements of Japanese street style, like the Harajuku and Lolita fashion popularized by Gwen Stefani.

GENRE

Contemporary R&B• Those who’s careers began in the 1990s continued in the dawn of the new millennium• Beyoncé (with the help of Destiny’s Child), Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez and Usher are perhaps the

most well known contemporary R&B artists• 2001 – in particular its summer, has been named a golden age for contemporary R&B and urban soul music• Emerging acts from the early 2000s include Ashanti, Rihanna and Ciara

Pop• An extremely popular genre in the early 2000s• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera headed teen pop music in the early part of the decade• Artists such as Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue and Nelly Furtardo experienced revived success• Justin Timberlake shot to stardom with his debut solo album, Justified (2002)• Lady Gaga was one of the most influential musicians of the later part of the decade, finding success in

reviving the electronic influence of pop music in her debut album The Fame (2008)

Country• Country sales continued to rise• In the early Taylor Swift became the first country artists to enjoy widespread mainstream popularity since

the 1980s, she was the first country artist to win a VMA in 2009

TECHNOLOGY

This decade was filled with innovations, creations and revelations;

2003 - ITunes Music Store - the concept was simple: sell songs in digital format for less than a dollar and let buyers play them whenever and wherever they like-as long as it was on an Apple iPod.

2001- IPod -Apple announced in April 2007 that the 100 millionth iPod had been sold. Apple claims the iPod is the fastest-selling music player in history.

2005- YouTube- The most popular and successful invention in the year 2005 was YouTube. The website which achieved the greatest consumer response is a video-hosting website that lets users share videos across the globe. The website is currently one of the most famous websites in the world!

2004- Facebook- A social networking site that has more than 800 million active users. It was created by Mark Zuckerburg and his college roommates.

Technology from the 2000s influenced music due to the new technology that promoted it. The creation of YouTube was a way to let the public view music and increase the popularity of songs. Facebook was also used to advertise as users would promote song/artist through there statuses.

This link shows us when technology was created through the 2000s – http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/technology-in-the-2000s

POLITICS• Anthony Charles Lynton Blair • Born 6 May 1953 • British Labour Party politician from 1997 to 2007• Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007• Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 leading Labour to a “landslide victory” in the general election of

1997, winning 418 seats, the most the party has ever held.• The party went on to win two more elections under his leadership, in 2001 and 2005, with a significantly reduced

majority in the latter.

Tony Blair

• Some of the good things:• Minimum Wage• Devolution for Scotland & Wales• Good Friday agreement & peace in Northern Ireland• Freedom of Information Act• Human Rights Act• Independent Bank of England• Civil partnerships (although he wimped on full 'marriage' this was progress)• Progress in reducing Child Poverty• Huge investment in education• Huge investment in NHS (+25% increase in real terms)

2001 9\11 TERRORIST ATTACK Songs were banned, albums rejiggered and tours postponed, but musicians also banded together, writing inspirational songs and raising over $170 million in the weeks after the terrorist attacks.

The US response to 9/11 prompted a lot of American bands to start playing anti-war and anti-government songs. It also caused many artists to become far more popular by playing songs that supported the military. If you pay attention, you'll notice that a lot of the country music that was released in the last decade was pro-military.