Why does most new music suck?

"*But it's always been the simplest of melodies that are the most pleasing"

"Rja, mediocrity is the norm for everything, not just music."

Taken together, it seems that the simplest of melodies are most pleasing, and the norm is mediocrity.

So the dilemma is that the most pleasing music also happens to be mediocre.

I'll buy that.

Goose, does this answer you original question?

Who wants to be mediocre? It probably does "suck" relative to things that are "really good".

Nothing new here these days though. Most things are average, pretty much by definition. Average is well, average, it kinda "sucks" I suppose.

But the devils in the details regarding good/average/sucks. Ten people will give ten different answers, so back to the drawing board.

Damn, I though I finally had this one nailed....

You're kidding, right? You've melded two peoples' opinions on different issues into a collaborative position of your own. And you're talking about narcissism? What are you on?

Any way, I'd like to bring up Bowie for a moment. He declined 'All The Young Dudes'. But wasn't he awesome? Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. Took what was left and made the best of it. And you can bet it needed the production it got.

"You've melded two peoples' opinions on different issues into a collaborative position of your own. And you're talking about narcissism? What are you on?"

Jut trying to be helpful.

Oh well....

You haven't answered my question, as I've noticed you don't actually address the meat of any one's post.