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I'm not sure if it's just me, but I prefer the aesthetics, fashion and the music of this decade compared to that of the late 2010s.

I feel like the 2020s (so far) will be viewed in the future as an extension of 2010s cinema except with video game movies being popular and with brighter colors as well as it being noticeable that the "franchise era" for Hollywood is in decline, mainly due to there being a growing backlash against these movies as well as the sociopolitical climate in general making people not want to go to the movie theater as much. You also have out-of-touch Hollywood executives focusing on 2010s trends such as superhero movies, 80s nostalgia, legacy sequels, live-action remakes, or there being a meta/ironic style of humor for films (such as in Thor: Love and Thunder) making it seem more like an extension of the 2010s in my opinion.

I feel like the 2020s so far are similar similar to how the early-to-mid 1960s do not have a distinct identity for Hollywood film and was similar to the 1950s except with spy movies being popular, Jerry Lewis-style comedies becoming more popular, and westerns being slightly grittier as well as it being in noticeable decline as you could tell that the "Golden Age of Hollywood" was coming to an end before it was replaced with the "New Hollywood" era in the late 60s when gritty independent dramas became the norm instead of G-rated musicals or historical epics.

I know that this is a huge hot take, considering that mid 2020 was after the lockdowns hit, which people use as a de facto starting point for the decade, but this is how I feel, especially when I was making my "classic 2010s vs. modern 2010s" post, which included some things from 2020, but not from late 2019.

Whenever I think of the late 2010s, I tend to think of Trap music and the large social justice movements like the Women's March or the March for Our Lives, which fits very well for mid 2020 due to the George Floyd protests, as well as the fact that Trap songs like WAP by Cardi B or Trollz by 6ix9ine were big then.

Late 2019, despite it being pre-COVID, feels less like the late 2010s in my opinion if that makes sense, due to the 2020s influences that were brewing up that year, in which by late 2019, the music genres that would later define the 2020s were becoming popular then such as retropop or hyperpop, in which Heartless by The Weeknd was charting and Blinding Lights came out around that time.

The protest movements the were popular during the late 2010s were cooling down by December 2019, partially as a result of the optimism involving Trump getting impeached.

I am not sure how much sense this post is going to make, downvote me all you want, but this is how I feel.