Why does all new pop music sound the same?

Look at the artists who top the Billboard charts and tell me they are not part of a manufacturing process by the same hit factories.

Motown is a great example of a hit factory, and there have been others. I'm saying in the past there was more diversity on the Billboard charts. And I'm someone who was always seeking an alternative. 

I do agree that this is their time in music and pop culture, just as I had my day. But I'm not pining for it, I've moved on.

As the article stated, it's 1 or 2% making 80% of the pop music today.

The documentary "Hired Guns" on Netflix helps put this discussion into perspective in terms of what producers have been doing to many of the songs we all know for years.

@lowrider57 Did you ever ask your interns what music they were listening to? Did you ever follow up on those artists?

There might have been more "diversity" on the Billboard charts (though certainly not ethnic or gender diversity), but only because mainstream music had to be a variety show of sorts back then. There wasn't the niche marketing, the targeted playlists, the Sirius/XM stations, the Tidal and Spotify playlists.

And yet many kids today have access to and listen to a wider variety of music than kids in the 70's and 80's.