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Last year’s inescapable “Wicked” and its new follow-up finale, “Wicked: For Good,” present an entirely different, far more frustrating predicament than the one Warner Bros. faced in the late aughts.

From Salon

If everyone who heard the Velvet Underground went on to form a band, a good portion of Goldfrapp’s audience in the aughts threw away their pants, donned leotards and made stompy electro-pop.

From New York Times

It was the early aughts, an era notorious for tabloid cruelty aimed at young female celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times

In the late aughts, with a recession on and concerns mounting about the environmental effects of all those plastic bottles, designer water fell out of fashion for a minute.

From Washington Post

She cites the books that she used to research game culture in the ’90s and early aughts and names half a dozen games that inspired a chapter called “Pioneers,” as well as their designers.

From Washington Post