South Korea POP is becoming a model globally ...

They manufacture the artist as well as the public by controlling all steps of the product...

The lyrics are no more created by an independant FREE poet or artist as Cohen, Dylan, Lennon, Mitchell etc were but the young talent is taken under a controlling corporate wings ...

Is their lyrics will be bad? No not necessarily bad...

Is their lyrics will be good ? No for the most of them...

A manufactured set of lyrics tailor made for an artist and a tailor made public all controlled by the corporation made the artist work and sell...

But forget poetry and inspired music...

Thats was Beato point as i understood it and my point ...

It is not and was never about taste or old age nostalgia...

The change in the music industry goes hand in hand with a change deeper in the social fabric threefold organisation( culture/education-political participation-economoic association ) this change consist in the reduction and flattening  of the threefold layers of the social fabric by corporate powers and A.I. to a single totally controlled unique layer... Over our head and under our feet as individuals we are taken in charge... ( the events of the last years are  revelatory about that )

There is no free poet in a hive...the lyrics of the hive are neither good or bad they are standardized and tailor made...

No nostalgia for me about Dylan or the Beatles , no hate of any young actual artist... I even mention one i just discovered above...

Simply most lyrics on the chart sucks in a way or in another...

This does not means that there is no more genius in music ...

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Whats your point ?

@mapman , +1 on The Bird's The Word.  I had that very same thought when I was recently watching a rerun of Full Metal Jacket on Flix.  An example of yester-year's lyrics that were not extremely good.

@immatthewj

I would confess not all that much. But in a way that makes my point. During the 60s and 70s you didn’t have to search high and low or put a great deal of effort into finding great songs. In fact, it was hard to miss them. All you had to do was turn on your radio (yes, we listened to the radio back then) and you couldn’t avoid hearing great songs.

Sure, I remember those days. But keep in mind that back then, record companies were largely run by people who were willing to take on a much broader variety of artists. [. . .]

@stuartk , I would agree with probably everything you typed in that post. However, I would point out that you should have addressed that post/reply to @ezwind instead of me. Not that I took offense or anything, just that the post that you were responding to was made by @ezwind .

As for me, in the mid ’90s I was introduced to a public radio station, 91.3 WYEP, that totally transformed my appreciation of music. And although I do not listen to the radio much anymore, what I have heard when I do listen makes me tfeel that there are still good artists writing lyrics in the 21st century.