2010s Music Was NOT GOOD. 

There's something so awful about super "corporate friendly" content. Popular 2010s music was so family friendly and bland, and that's why it hurts so much. That Justin Timberlake song, the Chainsmokers song, they hit the same part of my brain that is activated when I watch an ad.

2010s was when every mainstream "rock" band (what's left of them) had to switch to a one-man stomp-clap radio pop project, with the rest of the band being just unknown accessories for the music video.

🎶Baby pull me closer in the bathtub with the toaster🎶

2010s for me will always be the decade where mainstream rock went from loud and aggressive to cage the elephant, Imagine Dragons, 21 pilots, Portugal the man. And that weird folk era where Lumineers and Mumford and Sons were big for two years. 2020s haven't been much better for mainstream rock

I'm a millennial but don't blame me for The Chainsmokers. I didn't do that shit.

As a millennial I will defend the 00s only. 2010s never happened

2010s had alot of great songs but alot of the popular hits are kinda ass listening back on them

As an elder millenial, my pop culture peaked in 05' when Avenged went to number 1 on TRL. After that quite a few of us just dropped off from radio / anything popular and just started figuring out responsibilities. Gotta talk to the younger millenials for anything 2010s. The older / younger millenial divide is real 😂

Saying “Rover” on its own doesn’t translate the same in the UK - you think Range Rover, I think old man’s beige interior badly built vintage car

As a professional wedding guitarist, I can assure you that Uptown Funk is one of the first five songs of the night, in the very first dance set right after speeches, and right before dinner. And yes it slaps every single time. Grandma and grandpa know it as well as the kids do without fail.

“Closer” is sung in super boring, narrow vocal ranges so that the average person can sing along. Also that’s why Taylor Swift is so big. Mid recognizes mid.

Bizarre story I have about weddings and Uptown Funk - friend of mine got married, and at his wedding when the DJ played this song, one of the guests dislocated her knee on the dancefloor.

I just skipped all music for 10 years.

I started college in 2010, and I just remember being the guy on campus jamming ADTR/A7X, as far as popular music goes. It wasn't long before I started to hear Mumford & Sons playing on the local rock station. And more just like it followed. Hipsters popped up, listening to this type of music. I couldn't believe my friends liked that stuff, or why/how it replaced pretty much everything "rock."

Avicci, Zedd and David Guetta made some amazing collabs and helped get modern pop/dance music on the charts They deserve more credit

Im here once again to let you know how ironic it is to talk shit about how corny the 2010s are when your era gave us Vanilla Ice and Green Jello

Millennial here. Do we have to take credit for "what does the fox say" too? Or can we pawn that off on Europe?

Being from the UK I did not think Range Rover during chainsmokers. I was thinking some clapped out old Rover from the mid 90'a thats held together by duct tape, and has terrible MPG and awful emmissions but they got a real good deal on it and cant afford upgrade because theyre still waiting on that post-grad job opportunity. Thats the vibe I get.

Yeah tracks like “Cry me a river”, “What goes around/comes around”, “Summer Love”…,even as a X-ennial rock/alternative fan who was raised on hating all things Boy Band, those tracks were hot. Justin Timberland really wore out his welcome by the 2010’s though.

2017, Grandayy posts another “We Are Number One” video, great times.

Even back then I hated the stomp clap shit, however I'll always be a dubstep defender.

The concept of happy white guy music intrigues me.

2010s was actually very special to me, cuz i spent my late teens and 20s. 18-28. I got married @ 29, I'm 32 now, and all my great memories were from the 2010s

I'd say late 2010s Soundcloud eap, mumble rap, emo rap, trap is more early Gen Z or the trail end of Millennial (Post Malone, Lil Peep, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Ski Mask the Slump God were born in between 95-96).

As a millennial, I don’t like any of the songs on this list. I’m more of an old school music fan myself.

The 2010s was the decade the NWOTHM gained momentum - bands like Visigoth and Eternal Champion started getting big and renewed interest in Traditional Heavy Metal for a whole new generation. Great decade for MANY reasons and that was just one!

Gotta admit, the succession from Uptown Funk to Metallica maps my music journey pretty well, when Uptown Funk was popular, I was 12 and I liked the song, like any other 12 year old, Minecraft, dubstep, Gangam Style and Uptown Funk was the shit then 4 years later, so 2 years after this Metallica song came out, I was getting into metal and this was one of the first songs I remember being into.

Get Low gives me flashbacks to my 6th grade dance. Like twenty minutes in the DJ noticed all the kids were wearing G-Unit shirts and Air Force Ones and he switched from 90s high school dance R and B to insanely explicit rap and reggae. Timberlake is an Xennial so he's just as much your problem.

Literally only knew the Justin Timberlake song, as pop from about 2005 forward hasn't been on my radar. That Timberlake video is awkward, and the movie was worse, but my 5-year-old (now 12) just loved it and couldn't get enough. That's a great memory!

"Whats Halsey up to?"....everyone who knows 😔🙁

That chainsmoker song just gave me the odd sensation that being at my worst stage of addiction to hard drugs in the 2010’s wasn’t all bad. I mean I did lose the last years with my grandma before Alzheimer’s got her, but I didn’t have to hear that song so… you win some you lose some.

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I don't even like mainstream music, but that Bruno Mats song slaps! Has that old Morris Day vibe to it

When your kid is older you'll understand why Can't Stop the Feeling was so popular

hello finn how u doing

my class in high school had a sacred trilogy to party: moves like jagger, sexy and i know it and rain on me (by one and only mr worldwide). can't tell if they're bad, have some good memories linked to them

Unironically, less than 5 minutes after watching this video the Justin Timberlake song came on at my job. This shit is inescapable even a decade later 😭

During the first half of 2007, I was going to a satellite branch of a state College near my home. During this time, I would often turn a pop, rock, or alternative station on the radio by choice. I thought the music was pretty good. When I moved onto the main campus of the college I attended at the end of the summer of 2007, I remember turning on the radio almost immediately. After flipping through various stations throughout my first week or two there and not finding anything interesting , I turned it off never to listen to it again by Choice. Through 2019, most music I heard I found to be boring, Lacking an effort, or cheap sounding. I don’t know if it was age, or if I actually heard a good song, but in 2019 I decided to start following music again. I still did not listen to the radio to follow music trends. Instead, I kept up with the current trends through various music critics, friend recommendations, or watching various music charts. A fair number of songs I heard I found myself appreciating. However, not enough to turn back on the radio, because while I found some music appreciable, I also found it to be derivative or a pale imitation of music from the 2000s or earlier.

Agreed 2010s were sh1t

Video was too short. I loved your reaction!

I still wait anxiously for the drop in "Roses" so I can move my shoulders like a bridesmaid stuck at the table talking to grandparents when she would rather be on the floor.

I have applied Papa Finn's Butt Balm to my Milleni-hole and agree those songs suck. However, I'd put to you that Gen X also endured some musical turds, so maybe listen to them next? Thank you for the laughs.

As a millenial, I haven't heard everything of the 2010s decade cause I was so into classical music as a child so I've only heard the mainstream songs on the radio between 2014 until 2019 probably. 2018 is the year that I actually started to listen music outside of the radio, so I don't have enough information.

Nice. Another good video, man

We didn't have this playing at my wedding. We had a ton of 80/90s Goth, Hard Bass, and Underground House music

2010’s were corny and cringe but I’d take anything from that whole decade over any 2020’s mainstream bullshit. Music has gotten so fucking bad in my opinion. Mainstream/popular music in 2010’s in general is better than 2020’s.

I was at a white people wedding yesterday and the Bruno Mars song litteratly came on at the exact time Finn described, right after that Pharell happy song and followed by Usher - Yeah, which is ofcourse when its time to really start turning up ♥️

What does "skeet" mean? It's not in my GenX handbook 🤔

You should do a deep dive into BilMuri. Former Attack Attack clean vocalists turned countrycore. I despise country but his latest stuff absolutely slaps.

I unironically still like the electronic future bass sound we got from Flume. It holds up today

you should listen to Halsey's album If I Can't Have Love.. - produced by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. i think its her best work to date, should have won a grammy for best alt pop album and i overall think halsey fits so much better into the alt scene, rather than her mainstream pop songs. her song Experiment On Me was produced by Bring Me The Horizon and i wish she explore a sound like that even more.

Think Get Low was awkward at a white person wedding. My wifes cousins wedding featured WAP as per request of the bride, and this was only about 2/3rds through, so theres still daylight and the kids are knee sliding on the floor. Yeh. That was a moment.

i will tell you one time in the past couple years i missed corny 2010s music at a wedding was when i was at this wedding that only had a live swing band, like great way to flex your hobby literally no one else did.

Remember you checked out Todd In The Shadows. He had Closer FT Halsey as his fav hit song of 2016

2010s also gave us the entire a’capella trend

2:48 Who says romance is dead??

Not only have I also never been a Metallica enjoyer, I too am a jaded Gen Xer who can’t stand happy ordinar people. Also Finn made me realize that Tool are not as good as Instill believed because my friends couldn’t stop praising them for Lateralus when it came out. Really wondering though Finn: how do you like the sad emotions album by abyssic hate?

My mom used to play 'cant stop the feeling' every Saturday morning for three years with speakers that would shake the floor as a way to wake me and my siblings up.

The bass line on the Justin Timberlake song is really good. If I remember right they put it through a wah on one channel and recorded it straight on the other. It’s a good sounding bass

Producers use loops now. Just already made music they mix with already made instruments. Billy eilish fists hits were garage band loops that match keys.

I'll defend up until about 2012 (not a millennial just passionate about music, '97). I stopped listening to the radio by then and mainstream music. I let new interesting music find me after that. I got mad nostalgia for 50s-80s rock and '90-'07 club music and rap lately so i figure another decade I'll feel a bit nostalgic for 2010s.

Please start a future video by hitting us with a "Hey Dudes Are You Ready To?" We would appreciate that a lot.

Last thing: mustache finger, i THINK, was actually started by a friend of Pete Wentz back in like 2005. He got it and then it popped off a few years later as a result.

How often do you “dance in the banana aisle”?

Lol regarding the Bruno Mars song, I have mostly listened to it via a YTP by CS188, and the beginning goes "There's sh*t in that a*hole, Michelle's whiping a truckload", and the real song sounded wrong.

Recently realized that zoomers still dont have a single band at the success level that paramore hit in the 2007-2012 era. I think Millenials were the last generation putting in the real work as a team before everyone started to go solo...Im also going to have to say that the most exciting thing to come out in the 2010's was the soundcloud emo trap stuff the younger guys were doing, that was a great wave. Also, you can miss me with all that watered down indie Mac demarco / Clairo stuff too, really mid era for rock and indie unfortunately.

Almost 15 years ago

My high school did a lip dub video to can't stop the feeling it was so cringey

It's all a cycle. Right now it's not far enough in the past that we are coming around to it yet. Currently, people are becoming nostalgic to late 90's and 2000's music. Give it 5-10 years and the 2010's will have it's comeback.

God, my daughter was OBSESSED with the Trolls movie and Can’t Stop The Feeling. Back when I used to purchase DVD’s, she would constantly play the song OVER AND OVER AND OVER again 😂 It’s a strange one cause I have all these sweet memories of her being a toddler singing and dancing along, but I hate that f*cking song.

I remember a “Punk Goes” cover of Closer I 100% thought was way better 😂

2010s pop was the epitome of commercialized pop music, and fashion was getting so bland. I don’t remember the 2010s fondly, mostly the post hardcore/pop punk/metalcore stuff I held onto from that era.

I'll take the 2010s music over the music we now have.

That first song is the definition of compressed. Yesterday I was listening to AC/DC Back in Black wondering what happened to music.

I non-ironically like early chainsmokers. Their remix of Dreaming by Small Pools is fantastic. Also roses is a great song. Idc what people say lol

Option Paralysis is from 2010, also the best(my opinion) album from TDEP

I still have an old iPhone somewhere with flappy bird on it. Also Death Magnetic is better than Hardwired in ever possible way.

That synthetic clap sound in the Stomp Clap style still haunts me.

In the 2010s, everything started to become an ad, including every song that aimed for airplay. Every song was made by X featuring Y. It hasn't stopped. The end times started with Chris Brown becoming successful.

2010s best era of KPop, JRock, and resurrection of dance, trance, and house, tons of great guitar music still, country was pretty too, the best Swiffer music, vaporwave, and chiptunes. Yes bro country and Macklemore tho.

2010s pop music should be called leasing office music. All of this stuff including stuff from your previous videos on the 2010s was stuff I always heard playing in apartment leasing offices. It was the nicer apartments with pools and gates with special codes, though. Not the low-end ones that don't require pet deposits.

Death Magnetic came out between St Anger and Hardwired. It wasn’t the best but it was definitely going the right direction.

Coincidentally (or not), the 2010's is when I wasn't that much into music anymore. Weird, because music was pretty much my whole identity up to that point. Thank you to the millennials for making me grow up and find myself, I guess.

I really liked the 2010s. 1989 era Taylor swift, The Weeknd, die Antwoord. Hell even the first Mumford and sons and of monsters and men were great. Rest of the “stomp clamp” not so much. Even the two carly Rae jepson albums of emotion and dedication were fucking awesome. However, bands like imagine dragons and chainsmokers were god fucking awful.

This is the first time I've ever heard the chain smokers and I swear this sounds exactly like some pop country songs from the same time period.

What does the fox say

In the 2000s there were many songs that gave cringe, but the 2010s surpassed it by far, I say that as a millennial.

If we are only talking about pop music, sure there was a lot of generic bad songs. However 2010s brought new bring me the horizon, falling in reverse and (a personal one for me) starset among many other artists. So the decade itself was not a write off

I just realised Finn sometimes sounds a bit like Morty (Rick & Morty). When he extends words it comes out and when he’s going off on a tangent lmao

I abandoned metal for dubstep in the 2010s what was wrong with me

They played that damn Timberlake song in orientation video at my job, I knew exactly the people was about to deal with.

2:48 I was not ready for that. I was agreeing at that point as a mileneal.

Finn, don’t you put that evil on me!!

Metallicas last REAL album was Justice….. just the way it is. But if I want to actually MetallicA play there own covers songs, I have to go see them. And I’m really glad that we still can. Good shit.

The first half of the 2010’s were 80’s level of cheese. The second half of the 2010’s problem was there was nothing to talk about in music. When Obama was president the music was reaching 80’s music in the UK levels of bad.

You gotta listen to that Timberlake song thru the ears of a 4 year old daughter. As a father, I can’t be mad at that song. It’s hard to find age appropriate pop music and she loves that song. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You're not allowed to blame the millennials for Can't Stop the Feeling, that one is all Gen Z. It was the soundtrack to trolls movie and a song for children.

Dont know one single millenial IRL whos into 2010s stuff, the oldest person maybe is my GFs younger sibling whos the ultimate zoomer (born 99)... Early 00s are the true peak of millenial culture, 90s as far as kid just kid culture

The Lumineers were good……the indie folk genre exploded, so I would say that was a positive.

An idea for a drinking game. Watch a series of Finn's videos and take a shot every time he says "I wouldn't chose to listen to this"