Being a kid in the 90s wasn't bad if I could do it again trust me I would so many things I missed out on growing up because getting money was kind of harder then back when I remember my Gameboy Advance and yeah it did felt different back then. I felt a lot happier being a kid then I realized being older is ruining it entirely nothing can replace what I had growing up now we got SmartTVs instead of CRT TVs or PlasmaTVs yeah it did feel like another dimension in the early 2000s a lot of cool stuff was in that age now technology keeps getting even more expensive almost impossible to buy.
@@lastdreamofhome if I see one more one-time purchase turn into a subscription-based service I'm gonna LOSE IT!! Nobody wants to pay ten times the price a product's worth, but it's not like we have a choice.
@@i2yuris i mean i was a child and i remember a lil bit how it was and all the stuff, what i meant was that the fact that frutiger aero seems to be the future that we should be living rn but its actually really different off what they were expecting, idk how to explain it 🤷♀️
Yessss I was only 15 in 2007 if I could wake up in 2007 again I'd fix some minor mistakes I made growing up now I know better who to be friends with and who not to be friends with Windows 7 was the king and always will be Microsoft is foolish to discontinue it I'm refusing to upgrade from Windows 10. Just for the fact you can actually make it look like Windows 7 with Windows 11 it's a bit complicated the layout is fair but the floating menu screen irritates the hell out of me. The bonus side you don't have the highlighted task menu which is a plus it sounds like Microsoft is TRYING to go back the original route with a modern type feel. Windows XP sadly was my childhood not a whole lot going on back then everything now is kind of a bit cooler. Plus I don't want to go through all that hell I went through in School I got put in a lot of bad Schools but it was the only option available I wasn't doing nothing really bad happened like me being expelled which I was always friendly and out going. We moved a lot and it caused all of my grades to flunk this is what I'm really pissed about because even if I was smart and disabled the Louisiana School system said they would end up failing me anyway and not getting my highschool diploma. You can blame the School system for the way I'm paranoid to today I really don't know who to trust from those events but I would still like to go back to 2007 and fix some mistakes.
Yeah hearing it in this playlist made me laugh at first but then I realized it really is this aesthetic. Maybe that’s why the Wii U felt so out of place for its time when I bought mine.
As a '99 kid I was born in that perfect age where I got to grow up in the frutiger aero era and have it exist now as a fond primal childhood memory. Given how comforting this aesthetic is I'm quite happy with that. Lovely playlist, it's hard to find ones where people don't throw in EDM or similar music.
I'm a '89 kid, so for me peak nostalgia is the Y2K aesthetic. Screenshots of Windows Millenium with its sounds, software and games give me homesickness. But I have a special place in my heart for Frutiger Aero, as these were my college years, when I studied computer science and truly became fascinated with technology.
in a early 04 kid, January 2004, im too young to know the feel of 90s tech aesthetic but I was definitely exposed to Y2K and frutiger aero. I used my moms old Windows XP laptop a lot and frutiger aero is ingrained in my mind.
for me 90s-2000 were the best years to be born because your have the best from both worlds (real world and technology). My year isn't so bad either (2005) but I guess I'm a baby for u hahah
@@rreece90 '94 kid, I got to see the radicool 90s style, then Y2K, then FA. I enjoy all of them, as well as most things that try to bring some color and humanity back to design. (that explicitly excludes stuff like corporate memphis and alegria, ofc.)
Frutiger aero is like a jelly with various flavors. But, flat minimalism is like a barely sweet chocolate that has the same flavor at the every part of the chocolate, but not tasty. We really want to feel the flavor sour, sweet, etc. by Frutiger aero.
I love what seems like a completely untouchable point in time to younger generations was just the "day in the life" for the rest of us. nostalgia is wild
Just think about it: People, who are too young to remember times before these cold minimalist FLAT UIs took over every piece of technology, are now already becoming adults.
I was born in 2005 when this aesthetic was still fresh it feels like this was the 2000s version of the Y2K aesthetic from the late 90s everything looked so futuristic i remember going into the electronic sections of Walmart,Target and feeling like i was in the future it was such a magical time i wish i could go back..
Hell yes bro, there was that brief period of time between the late 90s grunge look and 9/11, when the Y2K look was everywhere, but it died out so quick. Frutiger Aero feels like Y2K 2.0, though I do think it feels a bit more corporate and hollow than Y2K.
@aortaplatinum I was gonna say that It does seem like the y2k futuristic aesthetic died after 9/11 but around 2004/2005 it came back but it had more of a electronic feel to it probably cause that was the time when people were playing on Nintedo DS,Playstation Portables,mobile phones were becoming popular,Ipods were everywhere I just miss all of it so much now everywhere it's like this modern industrial aesthetic where everything is gray and dark colors.
@@gdawg1585The 2000s represents a period of the mass adoption of consumer devices. The 2010s imo are all about the growing access and usage of the internet. The 2020s seem to be about the development of AI algorithms and robot automation, that we may soon enter the “imagination age”. The 2000s do in a way sort of represent the very beginning of a significant part of our history. Technology wasnt necessarily all that powerful, but people are noticing it, and for the first time most people can afford it. They are thinking about the future and how it might change things. Frutiger Aero reflects that, its a visualisation of what we thought the endpoint would be. A time of transition between the 90s and 2010s, between a lack of and an abundance of consumer tech.
i wanna go back to when my local shopping centre had demos of mario kart wii on display, and when the tv aisle of a tech store felt like stepping into the future. sometimes i wonder if overexposure to technology has ruined the nostalgia of early 2000s futurism, but then i listen to music like this and i remember: no, it’s not overexposure. it’s underexposure, and it’s replacement with the currently trendy minimalism
I used to play Minecraft PE 7.0 on LAN with that! Brought back memories for me too when you needed to use a nether reactor to basically simulate the nether for you back then.
i still have my samsung galaxy tab 3, even if the battery is very bad due to age. other that the battery, everything else is pretty nice. i got it from my dad when i was little for playing games. I remember playing all games of Angry Birds, and Mario-style games, Shadow Fight 2, and all that. I also remember taking pics of stuff from it with its super bad camera quality which i loved [i was obsessed with the negative values filter], and also walked down long streets to bring it to my friend's house to play with it. flash games also existed, so we played 2P games on a laptop which my friend owned with windows 7 or smth from a website. it was simple. and nice. i want flash games to be trending again with wacky designs and ideas resonating styles dominating 2000-14.
i was 10 years old when my dad got a brand mew computer with windows vista in 2007 it felt so futuristic compared to the big boxy one we had at my mom's. whenever i would visit him i would write stories in word and explore the huge amount of clip art available lol
When I was young, my mother used to buy this soap with the fish patterns, The images of clownfish were behind the logo, it was so beautiful to me and i used to imagine the world this printed fish lived in. Whenever my mum bought a new soap I’d do the same, i would admire them because the bottle of soap really looks like an artificial aquarium to me, and the soap slowly leaving felt like the water of the aquarium was sinking. i used to go to my older brothers room just to see his soap and what fishes were in it this time, and now it’s an aesthetic that always brings me memories . I really wish i could still see everyday objects with such imagination as i did when i was young but i never will ever again
nah you're probably right, FA was a corpo style but it's being recontextualized. People are saying they wish the aesthetic had been realized instead of just presented as a hopeful future by people who had no intention of actually trying. I'm not sure what Corporate Memphis is promising other than people with non-representational skin tones and little heads jumping around and waving flags.
Windows Vista/7, core 2 duo cpu's, flash games, flip phones, mp3/mp4, amazement over cgi in movies, not spending more than 2 daily hours on your phone, catchy hit songs, jelly bracelets.
It's fascinating how we're at a point where we can look back to this mid-to-late 2000s time period with nostalgia and can pinpoint a specific aesthetic to it. Although, I remember initially hating the transition into these aesthetics having grown up in the 90s. It was too clean and shiny (looking at you, Windows Vista, Apple and Wii-era video games) and I started missing the eclectic weirdness that came before, especially in the gaming world (GameCube, my beloved weirdo). But now I can be at peace with it and I'm sure today's popular aesthetics will receive a similar treatment in a decade or two.
the wii u was really late to the party but it feels so surreal because it still has a heavy frutiger aero theme to it and it's like the future we could of had instead of over simplification
I was surprised when I compared the 2000s and 1950s and found many similarities in these decades. Both of these decades have tried to instill optimism and faith in a bright future in citizens. Look at the advertising posters and you will see that they depict contented and happy people. Look at the interior and design of these two decades, they are both made in a futuristic way: Futuristic furniture, computers, phones from the late 90s and 2000s; and futuristic cars, furniture, household appliances, buildings from the 1950s. Both decades had their own idea of the "energy of a bright future": In the 1950s it was nuclear energy, and in the 2000s it was ecological hydrogen. Both of these decades were remembered for their high economic stability and glamorous fashion. In both decades, there were three-dimensional logos of all objects and things ranging from advertising labels to corporate logos. In both decades, they dreamed that the future was about to come, it only remained to wait a little bit. And then compare how already in the 1960s and 2010s all these dreams of the future were destroyed due to crises and cultural explosions. After that, you start to believe in the cyclical nature of history and events.
im sorry bit this is such a dumb take, the 1950s was the invention of the suburban experiment, the worst urban planning practice ever conceived, also the 1960s was a cultural revolution that has far more in common with the freedom of expression of the 2000s than the oppression of the 50s, also architecture never stopped looking futuristic or trying to, without the 60s and 70s the 2000s as you know it would never have existed, those decades were incredibly important for pro-enviroment people, not to mention 1960s-70s earthy natural colored interior design and architecture
Yeah like I listen to femtanyl and speedcore but it's a death wish to try to make homework while listening to that frutiger aero doesn't feel numb and allows me to concentrate
Yes being a 2000s kid was definitely worth it computers were colorful and everything greener less pollution and disease 2024 sucks let's go back to the 2000s.
Its so important for me to say how well crafted this playlist is. When the feeding frenzy theme came on I don't think I've switched tabs so fast to see what the familiar tune was. The memory of sitting in front of my xbox 360 playing that game several times instantly appeared in my head. You've hit the nail on the head with this playlist. I will be coming back here!
100%! I wasn't expecting Over the Horizon to be on here, as well as Mario Party 9's tune. This uploader *knows* the frutiger aero era, symbolized through the music of its time.
i feel like the reason why we all collectively love this type of vibe is bc it reminds us of our childhood, where we had no recollection of the past or future and just lived in the present moment. our mind associates that with peace. not a single worry or bad thought. personally it reminds me of when i used to wake up early on sunday mornings just to play wii with my dad. life was so simple. i wanna go back to that.
i was just eating some food downstairs then went up to my room with this playing in the background and then i heard the xbox 360 avatar creator soundtrack and man its like millions of memories just flooded. thank you for this man
For those who are curious and just joining the "Aero" music through random YT recommendations, this video still image and the music is based off of a time between 2004-2014. Frutiger Aero which is a design style or internet aesthetic for UI/UX that was popularized through Windows Vista and Windows 7 and its personalization feature called "Windows Aero" which allowed opaque window title bars, Windows flip 3d when you Windows-Key + tab, window snapping, Aero peeking the desktop, and many many more features as Windows 7 released and Windows 8 came on.
I never knew how to search up this type of music but I’ve found it! It’s nostalgic and calming, brings me back somehow, even though I don’t know all the songs.
I love being nostalgic for eras I didn't experience in first hand. Sure, I played wii games when it was still popular, but damn, I was so little. I still play with my 3ds to this day thanks to the phantom nostalgia!
Huh. Phantom nostalgia-- that's an interesting way to phrase it! I've felt something similar, I believe. Especially when it comes to 2009-2011 youtube. I technically *was* here, but like... barely, yknow? xD
probably a number of reasons, but one I can think of is the pressure to run smoothly on underpowered mobile devices, and ease of making one design work on different platforms and screen sizes.
in times we live in now, where everything is flat and minimal, we as humans feel nothing. It has escalated to the point where it is more enjoyable when things look older and outdated, because we are all tired of nothing. Every facet of our lives has been drained of its personality and character; nothing is special anymore. But that gives us every reason to move our society closer to that special-ness, with the music we create, the art we paint, and the world we build. It's all in your hands, you just have to want it enough; and that, is what makes YOU special. YOU can change everything!
this philosophy seems harmful, it still seems hellbent on forgetting the creative expression of the 70s-2000s and replacing it with whats new, what millenials and gen x think is outdated will be irrelevant in 20 years, hell outdated architecture like 1970s shed contemporaries or 1940s art deco office buildings are well liked.
Anywhere at the Thoughts of Frutiger Areo Stage 1 0:00 Lease 1:40 Analog Aquatics 6:17 Nintendo DSI Camera Album 7:44 Nintendo Wii U Menu 12:42 Suggest a Question - Everybody 15:32 Feeding Frenzy - Track 1 16:40 Sims 3 3DS - Build Theme Stage 2 18:54 Bloom 20:39 Dead Rising - Mall Theme 2 22:53 Endless Ocean Theme 23:40 Super Swing Golf Theme 27:28 Wii Party - Main Menu 29:56 Plants vs Zombies - Zen Garden 31:46 Wii Sports - Golf Results Stage 3 33:57 Sims 2 - Sim Heaven 37:40 Xbox 360 Avatar Editor Stage 4 44:06 Nintendo Wii Photo Channel 44:42 Dead Rising - Mall Theme 46:30 Nintendo Wii Menu 49:58 Mario Party 9 - A Starlit Sky Stage 5 52:39 Lease The Past and Now 54:40 Over The Horizon 2012 57:20 Nintendo DSI Menu 1:00:50 Super Mario Galaxy - To the Gateway Stage 6 1:04:20 Mario Kart Wii - Wi-Fi Menu 1:06:48 Lowcurrent - Find Your Glass of Water Stage 7 1:11:51 Yabujin - Low Poly Heaven Stage 8 1:13:40 Pro Bass Fishing Theme
the xbox 360 avatar editor theme unlocked a whole hecking memory of me sitting and editing my avatar for hours every time my uncle let me play i wish i could go back in time
Is anyone out there chilling back on Windows 10 until further notice looks like it will be expiring in 2025 compared to Windows 11 damn I miss growing up if I could relive it I would make better decisions in life like not being friends with other specific kids growing up being older sucks keep up the good work guys this is a practical digital time capsule!
@@cezlock8209 I'm playing around with Windows 7 I might have to get an emachine or something and turn my Desktop into a Steam Machine I already thought about going back as much as possible people are too afraid to use them because they believe they're vulnerable. If you don't do anything stupid on your computer you should be fine modern browsers offer a descent amount of protection even without updates everything is as upgraded as it can get newer versions of Windows are just a gimmick and for looks to feel modern I'd rather find a copy of Windows XP and use the basic features so I can feel like I'm time traveling dual booting is amazing it can turn your PC into a digital time machine.
54:43 The moment this started playing, I imediatly recognised from my shcool days, it was my alarm that played on my samsung J5 metal (that died after I dropped it in a pool lol), it's crazy how, after just 3 years, that bad feeling that it caused in my past sleepy me at 5 a.m. already turned into a good memory of all these most simple days when i saw all of my friends, 5 days per week
Im not even joking some kids who were born in the early 2010s also actually get nostalgia because this kind of style only died down in 2014. This shows that how much Aero style impacted the world :D
this is def one of my fav frutiger aero playlists. It’s also by far the most relaxing one! Thank you for making this playlist and I hope you have a wonderful day🌷
2000-2014: Smells like fresh air and your favourite fabric softener. Health is about the right diet and excersise 2016-now: Smells like a hospital and hand sanitizer. Health is about pills and surgery.
Even though I was pretty young in the 2000s, there just something so nostalgic about it. Everything looked how this music sounds if that makes sense. It was a lot better back then, this music just makes you feel like everything might just be alright, it reminds you of simpler times that’s why.
when i was young i used to have dreams about this kind of thing; being in a brightly coloured world with ultra surrealistic logic (fish swimming in the air) and just being at complete bliss i dont know if it was just me who had those kinda dreams but its wicked i can still remember them now
LEASE - Takeshi Abo, from My Merry May. Banger, I discovered it from Spotify, but it's been weirdly following me everywhere. The algorithms have got too good nowadays
i already commented this on a frutiger aero vid but this heavily reminds me of my dads office and its very comforting (im not spaming im just blinded by nostalgia)
I have some friends who like to play around with computers a lot since they were little. I sometimes regret not venturing far into the internet like they did and I think mostly reason why was of "frutiger aero" because its manufactured. Back then it was the equivalent of the modern day faux-community that corporation use nowadays. It was the go-to for internet stuff and me being a toddler didn't know about "subscribing" or "comments" or any other website other than youtube or cut the rope. The ladder of which was the only thing I used the family pc for when it was switched to windows 8 and if you were around for the time you know how terrible it was to navigate. Nowadays I see frutiger aero as my version of the mid 2000's and early 2010's.
One album that has a lot of frutiger aero sounds is the 2002 exodus by the british dj andy hunter. It feels like frutiger aero arriving for the first time in the y2k dominated scene.
@@virtualclownflux3226 First song I've listened from that album was ''The Wonders of You'' from one my favorite childhood games Need for Speed Underground. It's actually an electronic christian album so it makes sense that's also frutiger aero since the aesthetic has this otherworldy and heavenly aspect to it.
This really is one of my favorite Frutiger Aero mixes, it's full of old music that really captures the era perfectly and it all flows perfectly together, there are no new music arrangements, at least none that I can see, and everytime it gets to Over the Horizon I just get hit hard and I start crying, it makes me feel so young. Thank you for making this frutiger aero the first one I ever found and the one I always come back to listen.
isn't this more late 00s/early 10s reminiscient? fruitger aero wasn't in the mainstream until the windows vista OS rolled around near 2007, and the wii wasn't released until late 2006. still, i love this playlist :]
Very surprised to see some Takeshi Abo songs. I knew his geometrical composing can touch some frutiger aero/vaporwave/night drive vibes, but this feels like a confirmation. Great playlist!
This era felt like an entirely different dimension in space-time
Not even in a nostalgic way it was just like that for some reason
Being a kid in the 90s wasn't bad if I could do it again trust me I would so many things I missed out on growing up because getting money was kind of harder then back when I remember my Gameboy Advance and yeah it did felt different back then. I felt a lot happier being a kid then I realized being older is ruining it entirely nothing can replace what I had growing up now we got SmartTVs instead of CRT TVs or PlasmaTVs yeah it did feel like another dimension in the early 2000s a lot of cool stuff was in that age now technology keeps getting even more expensive almost impossible to buy.
things were more 1000 times more mystical and hopeful
9/11 is the bridge between then and now@@leoregular1707
@@nicktherange Yup until being an adult ruined everything modern adults are a joke goodluck living in this age not the same as the early 2000s.
Frutiger Aero: Future is hopeful, clean and balanced.
Flat minimalism: Future is now and It is boring.
and it comes as a monthly subscription...
@@lastdreamofhome if I see one more one-time purchase turn into a subscription-based service I'm gonna LOSE IT!! Nobody wants to pay ten times the price a product's worth, but it's not like we have a choice.
@@fexarii argh, thats where youre wrong, landlubber
@@wilburcobb8990Yarg! It be time to revolt against the top business ye scallywags!
@@WintersDefault this is why pirating games, apps and services from big corpos is based
This was one of those aesthetics we never really fully understood the appeal of until it started being phased away
idk why this aesthetic feels like it never existed irl but only in our mind
probably bc you didn't actually witness it
@@i2yuris wdym?
@@Nico-ke4kt you probably were too young to be on the internet or weren't alive at all when the aesthetic prevailed. that's why you don't remember it.
@@i2yuris i mean i was a child and i remember a lil bit how it was and all the stuff, what i meant was that the fact that frutiger aero seems to be the future that we should be living rn but its actually really different off what they were expecting, idk how to explain it 🤷♀️
@@Nico-ke4kt oh okay, sorry for misunderstanding, have a good day!
Take me back to 2007
Ooooh yeeeah
Yessss I was only 15 in 2007 if I could wake up in 2007 again I'd fix some minor mistakes I made growing up now I know better who to be friends with and who not to be friends with Windows 7 was the king and always will be Microsoft is foolish to discontinue it I'm refusing to upgrade from Windows 10. Just for the fact you can actually make it look like Windows 7 with Windows 11 it's a bit complicated the layout is fair but the floating menu screen irritates the hell out of me. The bonus side you don't have the highlighted task menu which is a plus it sounds like Microsoft is TRYING to go back the original route with a modern type feel. Windows XP sadly was my childhood not a whole lot going on back then everything now is kind of a bit cooler.
Plus I don't want to go through all that hell I went through in School I got put in a lot of bad Schools but it was the only option available I wasn't doing nothing really bad happened like me being expelled which I was always friendly and out going. We moved a lot and it caused all of my grades to flunk this is what I'm really pissed about because even if I was smart and disabled the Louisiana School system said they would end up failing me anyway and not getting my highschool diploma. You can blame the School system for the way I'm paranoid to today I really don't know who to trust from those events but I would still like to go back to 2007 and fix some mistakes.
Me too i want to back to 2009
Nah dude take me back to 2004
@@futuristicentity2417 15 in '07??? Born in '92. You, sir, are an actively decaying fossil.
My biggest dream is to live in a world fully frutiger aero themed with nothing to worry about and in absolute peace
yes.
You want to go to heaven then lol.
Bright poping colors and a carefree lifestyle? Thats preschool.
@@XohjaiSbarkeater We have all felt so free as children only for it to be washed away with time :(
@@lobotomyhamster69 there's no such thing as time or children. Embrace nothing to embrace everything.
finally an actual frutiger aero playlist
The WII-U music is the perfect representation of what this time felt like
I felt like in an empty black room but see myself choose what is on the menu
Yeah hearing it in this playlist made me laugh at first but then I realized it really is this aesthetic.
Maybe that’s why the Wii U felt so out of place for its time when I bought mine.
to me the nintendo 3ds music too
As a '99 kid I was born in that perfect age where I got to grow up in the frutiger aero era and have it exist now as a fond primal childhood memory. Given how comforting this aesthetic is I'm quite happy with that. Lovely playlist, it's hard to find ones where people don't throw in EDM or similar music.
I'm a '89 kid, so for me peak nostalgia is the Y2K aesthetic. Screenshots of Windows Millenium with its sounds, software and games give me homesickness. But I have a special place in my heart for Frutiger Aero, as these were my college years, when I studied computer science and truly became fascinated with technology.
in a early 04 kid, January 2004, im too young to know the feel of 90s tech aesthetic but I was definitely exposed to Y2K and frutiger aero. I used my moms old Windows XP laptop a lot and frutiger aero is ingrained in my mind.
for me 90s-2000 were the best years to be born because your have the best from both worlds (real world and technology). My year isn't so bad either (2005) but I guess I'm a baby for u hahah
@@rreece90 wow sooo cool
@@rreece90 '94 kid, I got to see the radicool 90s style, then Y2K, then FA. I enjoy all of them, as well as most things that try to bring some color and humanity back to design. (that explicitly excludes stuff like corporate memphis and alegria, ofc.)
Frutiger aero is like a jelly with various flavors. But, flat minimalism is like a barely sweet chocolate that has the same flavor at the every part of the chocolate, but not tasty. We really want to feel the flavor sour, sweet, etc. by Frutiger aero.
I am exactly high enough to understand this comment
this playlist feels like walking through a science and space museum and seeing all the cool interactive displays for the first time
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I love what seems like a completely untouchable point in time to younger generations was just the "day in the life" for the rest of us. nostalgia is wild
Just think about it: People, who are too young to remember times before these cold minimalist FLAT UIs took over every piece of technology, are now already becoming adults.
I was born in 2005 when this aesthetic was still fresh it feels like this was the 2000s version of the Y2K aesthetic from the late 90s everything looked so futuristic i remember going into the electronic sections of Walmart,Target and feeling like i was in the future it was such a magical time i wish i could go back..
Hell yes bro, there was that brief period of time between the late 90s grunge look and 9/11, when the Y2K look was everywhere, but it died out so quick. Frutiger Aero feels like Y2K 2.0, though I do think it feels a bit more corporate and hollow than Y2K.
@aortaplatinum I was gonna say that It does seem like the y2k futuristic aesthetic died after 9/11 but around 2004/2005 it came back but it had more of a electronic feel to it probably cause that was the time when people were playing on Nintedo DS,Playstation Portables,mobile phones were becoming popular,Ipods were everywhere I just miss all of it so much now everywhere it's like this modern industrial aesthetic where everything is gray and dark colors.
same but it different for me as I was living in the UK
@@gdawg1585The 2000s represents a period of the mass adoption of consumer devices. The 2010s imo are all about the growing access and usage of the internet. The 2020s seem to be about the development of AI algorithms and robot automation, that we may soon enter the “imagination age”.
The 2000s do in a way sort of represent the very beginning of a significant part of our history. Technology wasnt necessarily all that powerful, but people are noticing it, and for the first time most people can afford it. They are thinking about the future and how it might change things. Frutiger Aero reflects that, its a visualisation of what we thought the endpoint would be. A time of transition between the 90s and 2010s, between a lack of and an abundance of consumer tech.
i wanna go back to when my local shopping centre had demos of mario kart wii on display, and when the tv aisle of a tech store felt like stepping into the future. sometimes i wonder if overexposure to technology has ruined the nostalgia of early 2000s futurism, but then i listen to music like this and i remember: no, it’s not overexposure. it’s underexposure, and it’s replacement with the currently trendy minimalism
It felt so magical and modern compared to today. And I don't think it's just nostalgia talking.
We have the power to make the future as clean and optimistic as you see in your dreams. It will just take some time.❤
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that's the thing about the future, it's always a day away.
i was doing homework when Over The Horizon began playing, and a million flashbacks of my old galaxy tab 3 flashed before my eyes
what a magical era
My first phone was a Samsung S3 Mini, i feel ya
I used to play Minecraft PE 7.0 on LAN with that! Brought back memories for me too when you needed to use a nether reactor to basically simulate the nether for you back then.
i still have my samsung galaxy tab 3, even if the battery is very bad due to age. other that the battery, everything else is pretty nice. i got it from my dad when i was little for playing games. I remember playing all games of Angry Birds, and Mario-style games, Shadow Fight 2, and all that. I also remember taking pics of stuff from it with its super bad camera quality which i loved [i was obsessed with the negative values filter], and also walked down long streets to bring it to my friend's house to play with it. flash games also existed, so we played 2P games on a laptop which my friend owned with windows 7 or smth from a website.
it was simple. and nice. i want flash games to be trending again with wacky designs and ideas resonating styles dominating 2000-14.
i was 10 years old when my dad got a brand mew computer with windows vista in 2007 it felt so futuristic compared to the big boxy one we had at my mom's. whenever i would visit him i would write stories in word and explore the huge amount of clip art available lol
My dad used to do the same thing with me when he used to visit!
When I was young,
my mother used to buy this soap with the fish patterns, The images of clownfish were behind the logo, it was so beautiful to me and i used to imagine the world this printed fish lived in.
Whenever my mum bought a new soap I’d do the same, i would admire them because the bottle of soap really looks like an artificial aquarium to me, and the soap slowly leaving felt like the water of the aquarium was sinking.
i used to go to my older brothers room just to see his soap and what fishes were in it this time, and now it’s an aesthetic that always brings me memories .
I really wish i could still see everyday objects with such imagination as i did when i was young but i never will ever again
You might not believe it now, but in 15 years I promise that many people will be waxing nostalgic over a Corporate Memphis playlist.
You're probably right
How will that even sound?
Gross
nah you're probably right, FA was a corpo style but it's being recontextualized. People are saying they wish the aesthetic had been realized instead of just presented as a hopeful future by people who had no intention of actually trying. I'm not sure what Corporate Memphis is promising other than people with non-representational skin tones and little heads jumping around and waving flags.
Probably gen alpha
Windows Vista/7, core 2 duo cpu's, flash games, flip phones, mp3/mp4, amazement over cgi in movies, not spending more than 2 daily hours on your phone, catchy hit songs, jelly bracelets.
First one brings me right back to 2007. I'd give anything to go back man :(
The Wii, Dsi, 3DS and Wii U send me back :(( such great times
It's fascinating how we're at a point where we can look back to this mid-to-late 2000s time period with nostalgia and can pinpoint a specific aesthetic to it. Although, I remember initially hating the transition into these aesthetics having grown up in the 90s. It was too clean and shiny (looking at you, Windows Vista, Apple and Wii-era video games) and I started missing the eclectic weirdness that came before, especially in the gaming world (GameCube, my beloved weirdo). But now I can be at peace with it and I'm sure today's popular aesthetics will receive a similar treatment in a decade or two.
I remember this era, hope it comes back one day
the wii u was really late to the party but it feels so surreal because it still has a heavy frutiger aero theme to it and it's like the future we could of had instead of over simplification
I was surprised when I compared the 2000s and 1950s and found many similarities in these decades. Both of these decades have tried to instill optimism and faith in a bright future in citizens. Look at the advertising posters and you will see that they depict contented and happy people. Look at the interior and design of these two decades, they are both made in a futuristic way: Futuristic furniture, computers, phones from the late 90s and 2000s; and futuristic cars, furniture, household appliances, buildings from the 1950s. Both decades had their own idea of the "energy of a bright future": In the 1950s it was nuclear energy, and in the 2000s it was ecological hydrogen. Both of these decades were remembered for their high economic stability and glamorous fashion. In both decades, there were three-dimensional logos of all objects and things ranging from advertising labels to corporate logos. In both decades, they dreamed that the future was about to come, it only remained to wait a little bit. And then compare how already in the 1960s and 2010s all these dreams of the future were destroyed due to crises and cultural explosions. After that, you start to believe in the cyclical nature of history and events.
"Economic stability" in the 2000s?
im sorry bit this is such a dumb take, the 1950s was the invention of the suburban experiment, the worst urban planning practice ever conceived, also the 1960s was a cultural revolution that has far more in common with the freedom of expression of the 2000s than the oppression of the 50s, also architecture never stopped looking futuristic or trying to, without the 60s and 70s the 2000s as you know it would never have existed, those decades were incredibly important for pro-enviroment people, not to mention 1960s-70s earthy natural colored interior design and architecture
i love how lease just fits in any frutiger aero playlist. it doesnt feel overused for me, its like the perfect theme for this aesthetic (imo)
I love frutiger aero songs playlist bc I can do my homework while I listen it.
How many tears land on each paper? (Estimate)
@@TheSmokeinator20 when it’s maths homework (i don’t understand shit)
Yeah like I listen to femtanyl and speedcore but it's a death wish to try to make homework while listening to that frutiger aero doesn't feel numb and allows me to concentrate
Yes being a 2000s kid was definitely worth it computers were colorful and everything greener less pollution and disease 2024 sucks let's go back to the 2000s.
Its so important for me to say how well crafted this playlist is. When the feeding frenzy theme came on I don't think I've switched tabs so fast to see what the familiar tune was. The memory of sitting in front of my xbox 360 playing that game several times instantly appeared in my head. You've hit the nail on the head with this playlist. I will be coming back here!
100%! I wasn't expecting Over the Horizon to be on here, as well as Mario Party 9's tune. This uploader *knows* the frutiger aero era, symbolized through the music of its time.
Lease is the national anthem of frutiger aero
i feel like the reason why we all collectively love this type of vibe is bc it reminds us of our childhood, where we had no recollection of the past or future and just lived in the present moment. our mind associates that with peace. not a single worry or bad thought. personally it reminds me of when i used to wake up early on sunday mornings just to play wii with my dad. life was so simple. i wanna go back to that.
I agree!
okay, this got to be the best and most accurate frutiger aero playlist I've heard so far. thank you for making this!
Thanks! None of the other playlists on UA-cam hit the spot for me so I decided to make my own :)
i was just eating some food downstairs then went up to my room with this playing in the background and then i heard the xbox 360 avatar creator soundtrack and man its like millions of memories just flooded. thank you for this man
For those who are curious and just joining the "Aero" music through random YT recommendations, this video still image and the music is based off of a time between 2004-2014. Frutiger Aero which is a design style or internet aesthetic for UI/UX that was popularized through Windows Vista and Windows 7 and its personalization feature called "Windows Aero" which allowed opaque window title bars, Windows flip 3d when you Windows-Key + tab, window snapping, Aero peeking the desktop, and many many more features as Windows 7 released and Windows 8 came on.
I miss the glory days of this aesthetic, I was still quite young but the vibes are clearer then ever
I never knew how to search up this type of music but I’ve found it!
It’s nostalgic and calming, brings me back somehow, even though I don’t know all the songs.
I love being nostalgic for eras I didn't experience in first hand. Sure, I played wii games when it was still popular, but damn, I was so little. I still play with my 3ds to this day thanks to the phantom nostalgia!
Same😢
Huh. Phantom nostalgia-- that's an interesting way to phrase it! I've felt something similar, I believe. Especially when it comes to 2009-2011 youtube. I technically *was* here, but like... barely, yknow? xD
So nostalgic being a kid during this era was awesome, we have come a LONG way since then (for better or worse)
Oh my god I was just remembering the mall music from Dead Rising being similiar to this aesthetics and then the mix immediately played it.
this feels like im in a computer and just strolling along the files with my headphones in
this is late-2000s/early-2010s but still epic playlist
why do devices now never have ambient menu themes anymore
probably a number of reasons, but one I can think of is the pressure to run smoothly on underpowered mobile devices, and ease of making one design work on different platforms and screen sizes.
ps5 does
Everything has gone so static and monotone unfortunately. Aside from a few UI's it's just blandness
the dreams of frutiger aero
in times we live in now, where everything is flat and minimal, we as humans feel nothing. It has escalated to the point where it is more enjoyable when things look older and outdated, because we are all tired of nothing. Every facet of our lives has been drained of its personality and character; nothing is special anymore. But that gives us every reason to move our society closer to that special-ness, with the music we create, the art we paint, and the world we build. It's all in your hands, you just have to want it enough; and that, is what makes YOU special. YOU can change everything!
this philosophy seems harmful, it still seems hellbent on forgetting the creative expression of the 70s-2000s and replacing it with whats new, what millenials and gen x think is outdated will be irrelevant in 20 years, hell outdated architecture like 1970s shed contemporaries or 1940s art deco office buildings are well liked.
I was so happy when I heard the dsi camera album it was my childhood
Anywhere at the Thoughts of Frutiger Areo
Stage 1
0:00 Lease
1:40 Analog Aquatics
6:17 Nintendo DSI Camera Album
7:44 Nintendo Wii U Menu
12:42 Suggest a Question - Everybody
15:32 Feeding Frenzy - Track 1
16:40 Sims 3 3DS - Build Theme
Stage 2
18:54 Bloom
20:39 Dead Rising - Mall Theme 2
22:53 Endless Ocean Theme
23:40 Super Swing Golf Theme
27:28 Wii Party - Main Menu
29:56 Plants vs Zombies - Zen Garden
31:46 Wii Sports - Golf Results
Stage 3
33:57 Sims 2 - Sim Heaven
37:40 Xbox 360 Avatar Editor
Stage 4
44:06 Nintendo Wii Photo Channel
44:42 Dead Rising - Mall Theme
46:30 Nintendo Wii Menu
49:58 Mario Party 9 - A Starlit Sky
Stage 5
52:39 Lease The Past and Now
54:40 Over The Horizon 2012
57:20 Nintendo DSI Menu
1:00:50 Super Mario Galaxy - To the Gateway
Stage 6
1:04:20 Mario Kart Wii - Wi-Fi Menu
1:06:48 Lowcurrent - Find Your Glass of Water
Stage 7
1:11:51 Yabujin - Low Poly Heaven
Stage 8
1:13:40 Pro Bass Fishing Theme
thank you for the list of songs, i've been looking everywhere for timestamps :)
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I was born in 1999 and I pretty much grew up with this aesthetic, oh how I miss it, it was so beautiful and full of life
the xbox 360 avatar editor theme unlocked a whole hecking memory of me sitting and editing my avatar for hours every time my uncle let me play
i wish i could go back in time
Is anyone out there chilling back on Windows 10 until further notice looks like it will be expiring in 2025 compared to Windows 11 damn I miss growing up if I could relive it I would make better decisions in life like not being friends with other specific kids growing up being older sucks keep up the good work guys this is a practical digital time capsule!
i'm sticking with windows 10 for as long as possible windows 11 just looks like a mess to me and it's annoying to navigate
@@cezlock8209 I'm playing around with Windows 7 I might have to get an emachine or something and turn my Desktop into a Steam Machine I already thought about going back as much as possible people are too afraid to use them because they believe they're vulnerable. If you don't do anything stupid on your computer you should be fine modern browsers offer a descent amount of protection even without updates everything is as upgraded as it can get newer versions of Windows are just a gimmick and for looks to feel modern I'd rather find a copy of Windows XP and use the basic features so I can feel like I'm time traveling dual booting is amazing it can turn your PC into a digital time machine.
54:43 The moment this started playing, I imediatly recognised from my shcool days, it was my alarm that played on my samsung J5 metal (that died after I dropped it in a pool lol), it's crazy how, after just 3 years, that bad feeling that it caused in my past sleepy me at 5 a.m. already turned into a good memory of all these most simple days when i saw all of my friends, 5 days per week
Im not even joking some kids who were born in the early 2010s also actually get nostalgia because this kind of style only died down in 2014. This shows that how much Aero style impacted the world :D
I was born early 2010 so yeah, your abt right
this made me cry so hard, it relished memories I forgot from my childhood thank you ❤️
idk how to describe it but frutiger aero is just so refreshing
my brain drank a cold water bottle
So it's easier to find for any who want it, the song at 22:53 is the "Character Select" from Endless Ocean
The Frutiger Aero world in VRChat brought me here. That is my home world. Hearing this wonderul music everytime I enter VRChat is amazing.
this is def one of my fav frutiger aero playlists. It’s also by far the most relaxing one! Thank you for making this playlist and I hope you have a wonderful day🌷
Reminds me of going to Best Buy in 2007 to buy our garbage HP Windows Vista PC. I love that machine.
this sorta music is sometimes the only thing keeping the stress at bay while doing physics homework, thank you for your service my friend /gen
i would like to make a statement. gran turismo music from gt5 are some of the best frutiger aero music out there
next to gt4
bro the xbox avatar menu GOT ME WOWWWW I remember when I gave my guy emile's helmet from halo reach I felt so cool
This is more late 2000s early 2010s vibes but still love it🔥🙏 Mario kart wii, wii sports, DSI, WII Menu, window 7, the nostalgia is real ❤
Literary peak Frutiger Aero time
pls never delete this! this has stopped me from so many panic attacks .. thank you for this playlist
_Frutiger Aero_
Unbelievably satisfying to place a name to something so convincingly real but kept only in personal memory until recent days.
Happy to hear the Dead Rising 1 mall theme here, definitely a Frutiger Aero vibe also that game’s great 😎
frutiger aero makes me feel some type of nostalgic way i can't explain
2000-2014: Smells like fresh air and your favourite fabric softener. Health is about the right diet and excersise
2016-now: Smells like a hospital and hand sanitizer. Health is about pills and surgery.
Even though I was pretty young in the 2000s, there just something so nostalgic about it. Everything looked how this music sounds if that makes sense. It was a lot better back then, this music just makes you feel like everything might just be alright, it reminds you of simpler times that’s why.
when i was young i used to have dreams about this kind of thing; being in a brightly coloured world with ultra surrealistic logic (fish swimming in the air) and just being at complete bliss
i dont know if it was just me who had those kinda dreams but its wicked i can still remember them now
LEASE - Takeshi Abo, from My Merry May. Banger, I discovered it from Spotify, but it's been weirdly following me everywhere. The algorithms have got too good nowadays
i already commented this on a frutiger aero vid but this heavily reminds me of my dads office and its very comforting
(im not spaming im just blinded by nostalgia)
I feel like this aesthetic could feel nostalgic or just welcoming to anyone in some sort of way.
The future we were promised, and yet we went dystopian.
So glad Yabujin was also in this mix! This mix brought me so much nostalgia it's perfect.
I have some friends who like to play around with computers a lot since they were little. I sometimes regret not venturing far into the internet like they did and I think mostly reason why was of "frutiger aero" because its manufactured. Back then it was the equivalent of the modern day faux-community that corporation use nowadays. It was the go-to for internet stuff and me being a toddler didn't know about "subscribing" or "comments" or any other website other than youtube or cut the rope. The ladder of which was the only thing I used the family pc for when it was switched to windows 8 and if you were around for the time you know how terrible it was to navigate. Nowadays I see frutiger aero as my version of the mid 2000's and early 2010's.
also shout out to lemon jelly highly recommend you to check it out if you like frutiger aero music
Men In Black, A.I. Artificial Intelligence are my favourite example movies with strong Frutiger Aero theme
The future that never was
Ultimate study playlist. I've played this through about 3 times already
One album that has a lot of frutiger aero sounds is the 2002 exodus by the british dj andy hunter. It feels like frutiger aero arriving for the first time in the y2k dominated scene.
I found Andy Hunter years ago from SSX3. Only listened to a couple of songs though after 'Go'
@@virtualclownflux3226 First song I've listened from that album was ''The Wonders of You'' from one my favorite childhood games Need for Speed Underground. It's actually an electronic christian album so it makes sense that's also frutiger aero since the aesthetic has this otherworldy and heavenly aspect to it.
Nin Dsi camera roll will always have a special place in my heart😫🤌🏽
lease makes me feel super nostalgic over a era i only experience for a year
Lovely strings, refreshing vibes and beautiful tunes!❤✨👍
Born 91 here, and personal any game music from 1995 to 2005 were the pinnacle imo. After that only certain games had great Soundtracks.
i zoned out so hard to this playlist i teleported to a different time and place
This is Not A Phase, Its a Masterpiece.
i swear every singular frutiger aero playlist starts with lease
not saying thats a bad thing
i listen to this while i clean my PC's file arborescence and i make my desktop look insanely better
Guys I’m just gonna be honest
I fall asleep to this playlist every night
Corporate in the friendliest, most genuine way possible.
This really is one of my favorite Frutiger Aero mixes, it's full of old music that really captures the era perfectly and it all flows perfectly together, there are no new music arrangements, at least none that I can see, and everytime it gets to Over the Horizon I just get hit hard and I start crying, it makes me feel so young.
Thank you for making this frutiger aero the first one I ever found and the one I always come back to listen.
this heals me i many ways, ily for creating this wonderful playlist. my favourite one so far
isn't this more late 00s/early 10s reminiscient? fruitger aero wasn't in the mainstream until the windows vista OS rolled around near 2007, and the wii wasn't released until late 2006. still, i love this playlist :]
i have the first song in my own FA Playlist, im so glad someone else thinks it fits the vibe too
I really wanna go back to this era.
I feel like 2000’s kids are being summoned to this video. All the comments are so recent. Weird.
Sims 2 gives me so much nostalgia, I remember playing it on my wii or with my neighbors on the computer. I wish I could go back.
And now everything is plain, simple, without its own personality, colorless... I really wish old trends come back anytime in the future.
i used to HATE windows vista but now i’m obsessed with frutiger aero 😭 don’t know what you got til it’s gone
Very surprised to see some Takeshi Abo songs. I knew his geometrical composing can touch some frutiger aero/vaporwave/night drive vibes, but this feels like a confirmation. Great playlist!
This sounds like something you'd hear in a 00s Korean MMO 🥰🥰