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
Yeeeeah, not really. You’re viewing the past through rose colored glasses. Twenty or so years ago, the most popular music was boy bands, Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Usher etc. Stuff like Limp Bizkit also existed as a cynical faux-rebellious ploy to get the ones who weren’t into pop to buy records from major labels, but they weren’t really saying anything other than FUCK YOU MOM I DON’T WANNA DO CHORES.
Sometimes there was music like Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down or Rise Against that did become mainstream, but they were extremely rare, and SOAD and arguably RA too are
anyway.
Yeah you're probably right. I tend to be thinking of music way before I was born when I think 'good pop music' and that might just be survivorship bias