«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

So the gist of this thread appears to be that a Steely Dan-loving YouTuber decreed that "Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad".

This is such a laughably stupid statement that it was soon amended to "maybe there are good lyricists working today, but they're obscure, they don't sell, and they're all 40 or 60 anyway, while the young ones who sell out arenas all suck".

Billie Eilish is not my cuppa, don't worry. But to be fair, her lyrics are more than passable, her music perfectly serviceable, and at 23 she's more successful than all the nostalgia acts mentioned in this thread put together.

@devinplombier Funny you mention Hante. Have to agree on her singing in English not adding to the music. But love the label synth religion with slogan forgive me for my synths, which is a really funny play with words. 
An infamously bad foreign language remake is Nena's 99 Luftballons [in German] that was re-issues as 99 red balloons in English. The German is quite a bit better, even if rather corny and a bit of a commercial sell out even back then. 

Uhhh, I did NOT say I was a 70 year old boomer.. That was someone else and I think that post was taken down, maybe?

We were very fortunate, Dad served in WW2 and was able to get decent employment with the federal government and he had one of those I was think it was a Motorola console? I think they were called that? And he let my sisters play whatever they wanted, but that was only on Saturday, maybe Sunday, and when he was working during the day.

He wasn't hard on them he just liked to keep them busy around the house because they were his girls...It's funny cause I remember as a little kid Pops, had a lot of Frank Sinatra 78rpm's  he collected over the years as a young man.

"And the meek shall inherit the earth"

@tyray , LOL!  I didn't shoot you those old Jim Croce lyrics because I thought you were a 70 YO 'boomer; I just thought, after reading your last post, that you might appreciate the sentiment.  

@devinplombier , funny that you should mention  Billie Eilish.  A few years ago I made a friend on another audio forum (a forum  that I never go to anymore) and he is not someone who I would imagine liking Billie Eilish.  A while back ago we touched base about some music and some vacuum tubes, and he recommended her to me.  I almost forgot about that.