«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

The impoverishment of vocabulary and the separation of music in narrow niches is a way to control the masses and are not random events...

Corporations pilot education as well as music industry as a manufactured product...

This is implied by Beato observation and not spell clearly...

I am not nostalgic by the way i discovered new genius in music each month.

But they are not in the popular hit parade ...

When i was young anyway i did not listen really much to any popular music, be it Beatles and all groups music, i was in classical music and poetry. If i feel nostalgic of my young years i will listen, Bach , Josquin des prez, Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Léo Ferré a poet, and Ravi Shankar and Moondog and Bob Dylan or Blind Gary Davis with magnificent text lyrics...

I did not had any albums of pop or rock .... Then count me out for nostalgic listening of pop music by old age ...

I discovered Jazz recently 30 years ago...

i was handicapped in my music exploration young because of my exclusive love of music before Mozert,... I discovered Bruckner and Scriabin recently 30 years ago....

Poetry and text in lyrics matter as much to me than music...

It is why i like Kurt Weill so much....

  You can say that there is a bit to unpack here, but to me, all that street thug bravado comes from very limited life experiences; poor education, little or no family structure, access to a world just outside there own of violence where gang life becomes family life.  All of this regurgitated  through some producer who finds a profit to be made, selling a product to the same audience. Something like that.  And yet there are people, artists who break through this wall, this uphill battle and produce profound art.

   Lennon on the other hand while not having an idyllic childhood, WWII, had a loving mother who did impress music, culture that extended outside just there world.  He had access to some education and from this somehow,  with a bit of luck timing, helped alter the music culture of a generation.  "Across the universe" comes at the end of the Beatles life, written after a juggernaut of experiences few ever will know.

Anyone with ears knows Joni, Paul, and Gordon have no equal.

Be sure to keep your dial glued to the oldies stations so that you will never have anything to compare with.  

Ahhh...! ’Time in a bottle’ I told you I’m getting older!

Actually, @tyray , at the time your post made me think of those lyrics (". . . memories can be friends . . .") I could not remember the name of the song.  I did a google prior to that post, and the song title was Recently, and I just did another google, and that was released on the I Got A Name album.  Which, as an aside, may have been the first cassette tape I ever bought, when I was a teenager, for my "stereo, which was a little portable cassette player.  However, I also thought that  Photographs And Memories was a pretty good song.

@vitussl101 oddly enough, the main market for that street thug music that you so generally described are suburban white teenagers.