Why is modern pop music today so terrible?


don_c55
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Surprisingly, I always liked Bach. Puts me to sleep easily, though. There were others in his time, however, don't remember the names. I heard their music too, Bach was better, to my mind.
Sir Sly - Don't You Worry, Honey
I think that's a great modern indie-pop LP.
If you haven't listened to it already, give it a whirl; might give you some hope for modern pop and the direction it's heading.
Also: Paramore - After Laughter
That's a little pop as well, but not an awful lot, it's pretty quirky :)
I'll go with one explanation that hasn't been proffered yet - changing taste in recreational drugs.

Back in the day, downers and hallucinogens sparked a more pensive or spacey (respectively) artistic impulse.  Today's turbo charged uppers produce 200 bpm EDM.  It's especially tough on us old guys who can't listen that fast.