Watched the MTV awards that night

Taters, I bet your parents raved about Guy Lombardo,Lawrence Welk,Eddie Fisher,Dinah Shore,etc. It was crap to us but great stuff for them. Lets face it we are Dinosaurs!

Ha! Yogiboy, I know some guys who constantly complain that the music they like (often British Invasion) isn't popular anymore. I gave up reminding them that their parents said the exact same thing about The Beatles (who seem to have a lot of the complainers as fans) when they (my friends) were kids. Why would one expect following generations to have the same taste as ours? We had our time, now it's theirs!

Pop music has always been pretty lowest common denominator. The LCD has changed a lot and probably broadened over teh years resulting in a bunch of stuff that mostly all sounds and looks the same.

Its all the other stuff always around that gets factored into it and lost in the shuffle worth seeking out. It'll be different strokes for different folks, not the amorphous blob basement dwelling LCD.

The LCD almost always consists of:

1) hot girls and/or the talented girl next door
2) cute or hunky guys
3) catchy beats
4) pushing the boundaries of morality of the day
5) lots of attitude. At least as much as teh masses will tolerate which is a lot these days.

The only thing that changes really with pop music is how all this plays out at any particular time.

Will this generation be singing the songs on this year's VMAs two, five, or ten years from now? No one knows for sure, but there is such a thing as disposable music, and a lot of what I heard sounds like a formulistic, disposable anthems. But then, I'm still singing ? and the Mysterians.