Why does most new music suck?

Musical taste seems to be generational. Every time I hear an "artist" like Bruce Springsteen, I have visions of Nat King Cole or Johnny Hartman turning over in their graves.

I began to get turned off on "new" music when the guitar replaced the saxophone as the lead instrument; when Elvis started making millions from the Black musicians who were left standing poor; when Sarah Vaughn was replaced on the radio with Janis Joplin.

Not that I never recovered of course. Over the many years I've learned through exposure to appreciate a lot of rock music, some of which is really great. Most "advancements" of that genre still sound to me like a lot of "who can scream the loudest."

I've downloaded so many suggestions in this forum via Spotify and have tried to find music that is unfamiliar to me in an effort to expand my musical tastes. For the most part, I am finding recordings that are DRENCHED in artificial digital reverb. What's up with that? I suspect it's a way to cover up deficiencies in the artist's voice.

One thing I've noticed ... the music folks liked as teens seem to stick with them through life. It takes a real effort to expand beyond that. I remember a friend who loved opera. I hated it. He told me that opera was a lot like jazz ... one must listen to it a lot before the light bulb comes on. So, I stuck a cassette tape of Madam Butterfly in my car and listened to it over and over. As my friend said, the light bulb came on and I recognized the beauty and genius of opera. I now have a healthy opera collection ... Puccini mostly. I did the same with classical music. Yep, I still prefer Cal Tjader, Paul Desmond, Ella and Sarah ... but I listen to lots of classical, opera, rock, country (old school), too.

Memo to the engineers ... get the reverb out of the mix, PLEASE!

It's literally formulistic. A guy named Max Martin in Stockholm has had 21 number one billboard hits in America because he has a formula. His net worth is around 250 million. He does the instrumentation with the hooks, lays down the vocal track, then sells it to Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears,Katy Perry, Pink, Backstreet Boys, etc with the requirement that they sing it exactly like he did on the demo. He rarely uses real instruments.About a quarter of hits are now coming out of Denmark. There's a book on the whole Denmark music factory, or Google his name with New Yorker.

Whoops- meant Sweden. The book is, The Song Machine, about the industrialization of songwriting and music production. Good book.

Electroslacker,
I googled Max Martin and thanks to you I now know why 90% of new music sucks.

Funny thing, a few years back I was thinking about the sorry state that music was in and that you could substitute any artist's vocal with another artist's music and the end result would be identical.

I think, there is too much commerce in arts including music. It's off the balance. Business should support arts, not the other way around. When Miles got rich, he started playing mostly what? That's right. Creativity is very much down these days. And computers help.
Sometimes I can spend half a weekend in an effort to find interesting well-performed music on youtube, and I consider myself lucky if I find one track. But when I do find it, the quality of the recording is questinable at best, and if I want to find at least cd, let alone record, I can't.