Existential Musical Blues or Sheer Boredom?

Pandering to my gay side recently I was reading about the this weeks Armani show during Fashion Week in Milan or wherever it was . The subsequent reviews from the daily newspapers were full of glowing and sycophantic responses typical of the fashion scene. However what disturbed me was the positive means they used to describe the show. As fashion supposedly moves at a frantic pace, renewing, reviewing, cannibalizing various themes, styles and genres the writers were pleasantly surprised that good old Giorgio shunned the current craze on the catwalk for the 80’s and took “inspiration” from the 90’s.

What irked me was the fact that although it is fine and healthy to take inspiration from the past it has felt like an age since anything new came from the fashion industry. There has been no real Noughties style so to speak like the iconic mini skirt of the 60’s or 70’s flares and so on. Each round of fashion weeks it seems these past few years goes in a cycle pandering to various decades of past. Are we so bereft of imagination? Have we reached some post-modern society where fashion has reached its zenith?

I was wondering if the same argument can be taken into the world of music. I know it is very blunt and limited to base things around such abstract and linear ways as time and decades but I wanted to open this up as a debate to you, fellow Analogue readers. It can be fair to say that a lot of bands this decade have been quite vocal in their musical magpie ways. Has there been a quintessential post-Millennial music style, sound or band? Or have we fallen into the clothing fashion abyss. Since we are only 15 months to the end of this decade I thought it would be an interesting argument. What do you think will musically define the first decade of the Millennium? Is it wrong to think in such a way? What do you think?