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
Say what you will about the politics of Rush (aka Randian inspired libertarianism) but Spirit of the Radio has some good lines
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Of course they also frame it as personal failings ("All this machinery making modern music Can still be open-hearted Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty") instead of blaming the system of record companies and producers picking and choosing marketable/profitable bands/music over more talented but less commodifiable musicians.
Of course then we get into controlled dissent, when opposition to the record company system itself is packaged and sold, as is with bands such as Reel Big Fish