Two thousand years ago, when Christians (I'm assuming) decided to break up how humankind measured time by using B.C. and A.D. designations, did Year One consist of the first twelve months? Or was there a Year Zero?
Okay, you got me. I'm really too lazy to dig into the wonderful world of the internet for some info. But I'm stumped. Just like radio.
Getting radio to come up with a term for our previous decade was like being a kid waiting for your parents to tell you about sex; you waited and waited some more, and found out a lot about it from your friends instead.
Just a couple of days ago, I was flipping through the car radio channels and a station bumper (one of those pre-recorded transition pieces) goes, "The best music from the '80s, '90s and the last decade." There, they've said it again--make that, not said it again. Our trusted friend Radio has become as slippery as a media publicist. No one is telling me jack.
Radio broadcasters have avoided using any kind of term for the 2000s for the last ten years. I never heard anyone but a few people call it "The Aughts," and you'd think that maybe they were National Rifle Association members by using "Aughts" (or "Oughts"), but no (I did some snooping).
Based on the credibility of some of our politicians, society could well have labeled the last decade "The Zeros," but that might be more negative than "The Aughts."
Maybe I'll never find out a name for the 2000s, because I'm dealing with this "new" decade--or skirting the issue once again in trying to figure out what to call it. Is it "The Tens"? Or "The Teens"? The latter doesn't make much sense, as we won't get to a "teen" number for another three years.
The J2 Blog will return to music discussion next time. I'm going to go take an aspirin.