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
i dunno, i think it's the opposite, the market is so fragmented that recognizing what's really the mainstream is harder than ever. of course you have your david guettas or whatever producing the most unbearable pabulum known to mankind and getting substantial radio play but even he belongs on a niche of techno/trance hack musicians. like normal-ass people who are into david guetta suddenly blurt out to me like 10 other european trance DJs and they're all named like Güren Von Heimlich and they think that stuff is mainstream, it's baffling. it all sounds fucking repulsive of course but it surprises me that there's deep scenes for normie stuff like that. there is no mainstream anymore in truth.