I know good modern pop music exists, I'm talking about the terrible shit that plays on radios, commercials, TV etc. The stuff that the media has decided is current pop music.
This is probably my most boomer opinion , but most of it is awful. Where have all the strong voices gone? It's all baby voiced feel good insurance commercial stuff or warbley break-up songs.
If I hear another song that sounds like 'Tonights Gonna be a Good Night." or Ed Sheeran or any of the 100 songs sung by women that all sound like infants I am going to screm.
Also anyone notice that these songs are all safe as far as lyrics go? No ones allowed to be mad or defiant in music anymore. Its all "Lets party." or "Boohoo my Boyfriend left me." Mainstream music used to have tons of "Fuck the system" songs, not any more. There seems to be no genre represented outside of singer-songwriter. Also let women have strong voices again, damn it. Also let bands that play instruments exist. Let multiple genres exist!
Anyway, Boomer_Owl out
No, definitely not. There's been a significant genre shift.
20 years ago R&B was very popular, Rock wasn't dead yet and relegated to speciality radio stations, Nu Metal was huge and so was Pop-Punk.
10 years ago there was lots of dance pop with songs about partying and clubbing. Accordingly, EDM-lite music was popular, from people like Avicii or David Guetta. Lots of (imo annoying) chorus driven music.
In the last few years, singer-songwriter stuff has become very popular and so did 80s revival music that sounds more authentic than the electropop from 2013. Kpop is slowly breaking into the western market. Rap and related genres are alive as ever, but trap hi-hat sounds are very prevalent and I really hate that. Another thing that became very common is interpolation - taking the instrumentation of a different song and writing new lyrics. This wasn't unheard of in the past (see Gangsta's Paradise for example), but has become more common in my view.
A few years ago lots of Latin American music was popular, but it seems that trend is dying out.
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Hm.
Yeah, the amount of new genres showing up and becoming popular has slowed down a lot since the late 90s - and when they do appear it's often imported from non-Western music industries.
I think the West is just creatively bankrupt, which is a reflection of the clear decline of Western hegemony. This means most art in the West is complete trash. However, it doesn't mean that the artform itself is trash. Ever since Al-Aqsa Flood, I've been exposed to Palestinian songs, and boy are they fucking catchy. I mean, if you're tired of "dat feel when no gf" pop songs, why not listen to songs about Palestinians lighting Zionists' asses on fire with rockets lmao