The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!!

For all of us above 50 the new music today is only sound. For them is music.

I was writing a reply to many of the posters and had a brown out & lost it. Oh well. I'll just say that most were good comments with which I mostly agree. its obvious who did not read the post and commented to the header alone. For them I'll quote from my previous post

I know some of the younger generation will disagree with the whole premise. Being born in 1951 the boomer gen was hit with the same  indictment about the new Rock & Roll music. There was some truth in it. But we didn't care because we liked R&R. I expect the same from some today who like today's music

Contemporary art, in this case music, has always had critics and detractors regardless of genre. This has always been true and will be so, then, now and in the future.  Even Mozart had his critics who described his music as “harsh, too complex, overloaded and even boring”.   I’m a “baby boomer” whose love of music has grown with me to appreciate all genres.  Many of the lyrics are the “poetry” of our times and the artist’s life experience. For that I am appreciative. 
Enjoy the music. 

A lot of modern music is catchy, tuneful, danceable, and memorable.

It’s also pure crap production-wise. It’s pitch corrected, auto-tuned to an inch of its life, quantized without fail and is mechanical and lifeless.

Let’s now add artificial "drums", synthesized guitar, a bunch of programmed loops and every Pro-Tools "plug-in" imaginable and it becomes a certifiable dumpster fire.

Case in point is Billie Eilish. I love her songs. However, her music is almost un-listenable, production-wise. On a bluetooth speaker across the room it’s fine. On anything approaching hi-fi it’s a complete mess.

That’s my reason why modern music is garbage. It’s good songs ruined by crappy production.