Most Influential Recording Artist of the last 30 years

Rick Astley

She should do like the lame Time Person of the Year from 2006. Most Influential Recording Artist of Last 30 Years: You. Yes You! The Cottageification of the Recording Industry

Bijou Phillips

It’s Nile I promise (precursor to hip hop, dance, but through a pop lens)

Either him or Big N Rich

Nile = past 30 years?

You can make a solid case for Daft Punk as the figureheads of the reinjection of disco and electro into pop from circa 1996-now.

They lack an iconic death, but arguably Green Day/Offspring have had the most solid musical legacy within rock over the past 30 years - after the grunge boom petered out not that many bands really sounded like Nirvana, but pop-punk remained huge.

As far as producers go, you can make a good case for the obvious ones: Max Martin, Dre, Timbaland, Neptunes, Kanye. NWA, Snoop, Tupac?

As far as the continued omnipresence throughout the past decades of shaggy haired white dudes singing their heart out to acoustic guitar strumming, is there any single name responsible?

thinking Nile to you means something v different than Nile to me lol

Yes, thank you Siegbran, Shaggy it is! Lock thread.

^^ So. Much. This.

Haha yes I can see a case for Neanderthal Nile for sure.

In a similar vein, I vote Seige.

Who’s this other Nile, lol?

it's not just a river in Egypt