By 2026...
 

There are those that argue over whether 90's music is "modern music" or not. 80's is definetely not modern these days, so the question is... ten years from now, will 2000's music still be modern music?

I think the millennium divide will keep people from lumping it into "modern" and "like, so 2010, dude" as quickly as previous decades. Not to mention that the music industry is undergoing rapid change in content diversity since the internet's advent. Either way, there will still be too many idiots who will call this time in music the last era of music being good before all them damn kids started trying it. There will also be those morons in the younger generation who stick their noses up at (or remain willfully ignorant of) older music simply because it's not new.

There's also the question of what's modern and what isn't. Is it just a date or is it more closely identified with a sound? If you were in a band in 2026 playing the same old **** that they were doing in the 70s, I'd honestly hesitate to call that music modern.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts. Although with the expansion of platforms to listen to music becoming more mainstream we will become even more fractured as to what "society" thinks is cool at any given time, and weather that's a good or bad thing really depends on who you ask.

Since the late 90's and almost all of the noughties studio albums to me have sounded very crisp, very "modern", whereas music of the 60-70's era sounds very live, but also muddy. Also, 80's records didn't feel modern then, much less now. So by 2026 I do believe music of the noughts and 10's are gonna feel "modern".