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Why does it seem the 90s was the last decade artists made risky decisions about their music while everything after the 2000s has become sterile?

I have made countless posts in previous accounts about how I'm still stuck in the 90's musically speaking because it has never stopped fascinating me how artists broke the mold during that period.

I lived my adolescence in the 2000's, yet it's like musicians in the 90's were more fascinating about their creative decisions.

You had Aphex Twin develop IDM, and the genre is still seen as something that was only popular in the 90's.

You had U2 turning into an alt rock band, something that not many bands from the 80's did: assimilate the sound of the 90's.

You have artists like Cake and Soul Coughing blending hip-hop and jazz.

You had the first wave of alternative metal and everything that was thrown into that genre, from ministry to tool to prong, to incubus to primus.

You had the development of trip-hop in England with massive attack and portishead.

You had weirdos like Beck; they might be giants and are creating new sounds that still today are seen as a niche demographic that was never seen again.

You had Metallica and Megadeth throwing away their thrash roots in favor of a more standard heavy metal sound. Metallica even injected some blues-influenced sounds in Load and Reload.

The native tongues collective with a tribe called Quest and de la Soul, who started sampling jazz beats into their songs.

Genres like Ska and reggae became mainstream.

You had Euro-house and big beat, which for me were the last interesting experiments in the electronic realm.

I know there was some trash music and one-hit wonders that nobody cared for.

Yet people remember the 90's as a very generic decade like the 80's.

Why does it seem the 90s was the last decade artists made risky decisions about their music while everything after the 2000s has become sterile?
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