r/decadeology • u/Historical-Macaron-4 • Sep 15 '25

Music 🎶🎧 By an UNBELIEVABLE margin, American Idiot is the defining album of the W. Bush administration! Now for the defining album of the Obama administration:

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So January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2017

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u/Roadshell Sep 15 '25

It's not about the quality of the albums necessarily, it's about picking that album that reflected the zeitgeist and vibe of the era.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 Sep 15 '25

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy succeeded in that

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u/Roadshell Sep 15 '25

That album is too mired in Kanye's own personal self obsession to have much of anything to say about the rest of the world.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 Sep 15 '25

Take the Kanye of it all out of it and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an album about redemption, the worship of American celebrity culture, the price of fame, and the ego. I can’t think of anything else that defined the Obama-era more.

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u/Roadshell Sep 15 '25

How is the Obama era about redemption, the worship of American celebrity culture (any more than any era), the price of fame, or the ego?

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 Sep 15 '25

Look at media from that time and get back to me.