Boomer ass take and I'm nearly 40 lol

I've been listening to a lot of good music this year, no idea what you're going on about.

This is as wrong as a take ever has been. More novel, vibrant, gorgeous, complex and engaging music is being produced today than at any time in history.

Banal, commercial pop music was inescapable throughout all decades of the last century. The classics of bygone eras are remembered in finite lists only as the uncountable middling efforts of thousands of shit acts fade from view. This is true of all art and media.

If you want to find current music that speaks to you, put in the effort. I mean that in an encouraging sense really, and don't want to dismiss your post out of hand.

In | that | spirit | of | encouragement | and | discovery | here | are | 31 | releases | from | the | last | decade | covering | a | wide | range | of | genres | many | of | which | have | enjoyed | critical | acclaim | and | commercial | success.

Shut up and listen to some Gizz. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=koQvZI4ewGg

I originally deleted this, but im restoring it so OP can see the replies and ask questions to hopefully find something they like.

Sorry yall, tired and grumpy

Listen to literally anything but top 40 then? I have almost exclusively listened to whacky obscure shit on soundcloud for the past decade, there’s so much creative and fun stuff dropping every single day. There are so many vibrant and unique scenes across the world, kinda wild to limit yourself to the most popular American stuff. You can absolutely find something you vibe with, just takes a modicum of effort to find things that aren’t heavily marketed and constantly shoved in your face. Don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and drop any preconceptions of what music “should” be and you’ll have a much better time

Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad

So, did you want to say rap here but realize it could come off wrong, so you said white rap instead? OR did you not realize you can listen to nonwhite rappers? Because it's got to be one of those, right?

This take sounds like someone who listens to video game soundtracks exclusively.

Just saying it's one of the takes of all time.

There's more music in the world than you can listen to in your lifetime.

https://youtu.be/itRWssMSuvw (fun and talented "pop" band)

https://youtu.be/KaNHvkeQ2wE (same people different day of the week)

https://youtu.be/ggE3OwlPIYc (just a good atmospheric black metal band with a PoC front man and it's just better than other black metal imo)

https://youtu.be/47XlUL6sRow (radio friendly jazz band and mercury award winners)

Try harder lmao, those are 4 random bands my bf showed me in the last month alone and none of them are basic/slop/mid/manufactured garbage. Just people venting themselves into sound and it's so good.

Stop being a grump

The cure for this condition known as RBS (Rick Beato syndrome) is to let your playlist be dictated by the Transfem Soviet. Proletarian banjo music, modular generative ambient played by actual mushrooms and bouncy frenchcore remixes of lesbian singer-songwriter pop will heal your soul, turn you into a screaming opossum, or both. Anything else is counter-revolutionary and literally transphobic.

Bad music wil always exist but the cheap and easy stuff is what makes profit and gets pushed by record labels. Stop looking there.

Theres not like 100 years of recorded music one could sift through at any moment. Or the insane amount of content on Soundcloud or Bandcamp. Or have an experience in meat world seeing live music.

As someone who can play music professionally, I think most people who have this criticism suffer from music illiteracy. Like in a world where art isnt a priority, maybe do some self-crit that maybe your ears arent that experienced, that you have a limited listening palette and you don't know as much as you think you do. Then ask why is this so? Like corporate slop has definitely shaped the musical landscape and has poisoned anyones mind who has partaked but why haven't you ventured much further?

nah squabble up

Music the past few years has genuinely been really good. Expand your tastes, go look for new music, and don't base everything off what's popular or on the radio.

Nah. A decade or two ago people were literally listening to pop punk. Before that bands like Rolling Stones had a fanbase. Awful stuff.

In many ways I think modern pop is better. Phoebe Bridgers puts out some solid music, and hyperpop is just a treat.

For country even the mainstream lets Chris Stapleton get a place on the radio, though I do prefer his bluegrass stuff. If you want more obscure stuff give Mama's Broke a listen.

Every single generation has reached the age where they say "music was better in my day" and they're always wrong.

Chappel Roan is the best thing to happen to pop music since ABBA