Each Decades Mount Rushmore

[Captain Bowie]

If you were going to name 4 entertainers that define each decade, who would they be? Could be singers/musicians/actors/TV hosts/directors/writers/producers/ect...

2010's:
Beyonce
Taylor Swift
Jennifer Lawrence
Leo/McConaughey/Cooper

2000's:
Eminem
Brad Pitt
Justin Timberlake
Brittney Spears

ect.....


Or even, by category by decade; 4 singers, 4 actors, 4 novelists, ect...

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[FLYLine27*]

Stone Cold Steven Austin
The Rock
HHH
The Undertaker

 

[No More Subban]

90s

Michael Jordan
Hulk Hogan
Pamela Anderson
OJ Simpson

 

[Shareefruck]

Shouldn't a "Mount Rushmore" be measured by achievement rather than what the biggest of attention-******* fads are?

 

[Xelebes]

Shouldn't a "Mount Rushmore" be measured by achievement rather than what the biggest of attention-******* fads are?

In short, no.

 

[Buckets and Gloves]

80s

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hulk Hogan (feel he was more 80s than 90s)
Prince
Mr T

 

[Acadmus]

80s

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hulk Hogan (feel he was more 80s than 90s)
Prince
Mr T

I'd agree with Ahnold...maybe Hulk. But you can't leave Madonna and Michael Jackson out of the 80s, as much of an influence as Prince was, those two were much larger presences.

Let's see...70s...I'll take a stab at it. The decades before the 1990s are tough because there's a LOT of people that contend for the top-4...hell, I'm leaving Tom Cruise out of the 80s for God's sake I didn't mention any sports figures, but Wayne Gretzky, Dale Earnhardt...someone already mentioned Jordan...Wilt Chamberlin, Larry Bird, Daryl Strawberry...there's so many huge stars in every area of entertainment I don't know how you pick just 4 in a meaningful way.

70s
Karen Carpenter
Michael Landon
Burt Reynolds
Donna Summer

60s
Paul McCartney
Brian Wilson
Clint Eastwood
Sean Connery

50s
Buddy Holly
Elvis Presley
John Wayne
Walt Disney


It's really hard leaving people out. Looked at a few "top" lists for the 60s, 70s, and 80s - just film stars but damn, the names left aside for this narrow list. The end result is almost arbitrary.
EDIT: NOW I see you suggested doing it by category...*sigh*

 

[Xelebes]

So I'm going to make some rules for myself:

1) They must be American or have come to be American in that time period.
2) They must have been an idol of the specific era.
3) Focus will be on imagery associated with the idols.
4) The idols will be representative of something and hopefully not crowd each other in their spheres.


1930s:

Glenn Miller
Ernest Hemingway
Shirley Temple

1940s:

Norman Rockwell
Frank Sinatra
Marlon Brando

1950s:

Allen Ginsberg
Joe DiMaggio
Elvis Presley
Walt Disney

1960s:

Andy Warhol
Mohammed Ali
Bob Dylan
Marilyn Monroe

1970s:

Walter Cronkite

1980s:

Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan

1990s:

2000s:

Steve Jobs
Rihanna

2010s:

I'll come back to this later.

 

[Sharpshooter]

Shouldn't a "Mount Rushmore" be measured by achievement rather than what the biggest of attention-******* fads are?

In short, yes.

 

[Ouroboros]

...but how do you measure achievement?

 

[Mad Brills*]

ATCQ should be on the 1990s music list

 

[silkyjohnson50]

...but how do you measure achievement?

Whyyyy?!

 

[Voight]

2010's:
Beyonce
Taylor Swift / Drake / Kanye West
RDJ
Matthew McConaughey

 

[Jumptheshark]

If you were going to name 4 entertainers that define each decade, who would they be? Could be singers/musicians/actors/TV hosts/directors/writers/producers/ect...

2010's:
Beyonce
Taylor Swift
Jennifer Lawrence
Leo/McConaughey/Cooper

2000's:
Eminem
Brad Pitt
Justin Timberlake
Brittney Spears

ect.....


Or even, by category by decade; 4 singers, 4 actors, 4 novelists, ect...

in 40 years they will be forgotten

 

[Oscar Acosta]

You can see the decline in talent and society as the decades pass.

 

[jw2]

2010:
Kim Kardashian
Mark Zuckerberg
Justin Beiber
Beyoncé

 

[jw2]

90s
Michael Jordan
Jerry Seinfeld
Jonathon Taylor Thomas
Will Smith



2000s
Tiger Woods
Brittany Spears
Justin Timberlake
Oprah

 

[Captain Bowie]

I specifically left athletes off the list, they are a whole different monster. Entertainers only. (I know athletes are also entertainers, but they are not artists in that they create something or perform art that somebody created).

 

[kihei]

'60s

John Lennnon
Paul McCartney
Bob Dylan
Muhammad Ali

 

[Fire Everyone]

You can see the decline in talent and society as the decades pass.

Said every generation.

 

[RiceCooker]

70's :
DeNiro
Pacino
Hoffman
Redford

 

[Oscar Acosta]

Said every generation.

I'm not from an older generation that has nostalgia for it. Just look at the lists and they speak for themselves.

 

[Shareefruck]

Said every generation.

Common narrative, but personally, I think every generation who has said it has been more or less right, save for the 1960s, who were the only generation who were right to call bull**** on it-- every generation since has been hanging onto the same argument, citing the 60s as if that kind of thing happens every decade.

As someone who was in his prime music-listening age during the 2000s,

1940s < 1950s < 1960s > 1970s > 1980s > 1990s > 2000s > 2010s, IMO

All of my favorite stuff seems to be from 1961-1981. Feels like the 60s were this massive explosion, and every subsequent decade involves progressively smaller waves and ripples created by it. When the 2020s are underway, by comparison, we're probably going to start thinking "geez, maybe I was too hard on the 2010s"

 

[Jumptheshark]

Shouldn't a "Mount Rushmore" be measured by achievement rather than what the biggest of attention-******* fads are?

I think some people are really downgrading just what the guys on rushmore did and the long term importance

 

[Shareefruck]

The Mount Rushmore of the 1960s are also the Mount Rushmore of music, period, for me.

Miles Davis
Bob Dylan
John Lennon
John Coltrane
Lou Reed

I mean, ****, how can it get better than that? Embarassment of riches. Imagine Howe, Orr, Gretzky, and Lemieux all playing in the same era at the same time.