No, I'm not saying all modern music is awful, but majority of the music that gets trending is terrible. Yet another girl that twerks for 3 minutes with a trap beat or some crappy awful rap song. Or Ariana Grande talking about another break up in the most boring cliché way possible. I guess since music is easier than ever to produce, now any clown can call themselves an artist.

Just keep in mind... The trending music in past decades was MJ, Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Cher, many, MANY decent to great rock bands and ballads. And I'm not forgetting the rap, rnb and hip hop, 2pac, salt n Peppa, en vogue, NWA, Biggie... There's an objective quality in these artist missing in majority of modern acts.

Hell, I would argue that decent artists from the 2010s like Taylor swift and Drake are getting lazy with their music as well, their songs being more focused on following those trending kids with awful music.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's because they don't bother finding artists and cultivating original talent now. That's risky. It's far more lucrative to find an attractive person, teach them to dance, and have them perform a bunch of songs that were written using a proven algorithm. A bunch of people are going to argue with me, but industry insiders have admitted this on more than one occasion. I've read articles and interviews about it. No, I will not be providing evidence. It's out there to find if you want to look for it.