Someone gave me a rather rational explanation why I don’t like any new “music” - there’s no melody. More precisely, the music most of us know and like, no matter what the style, consisted of SONGS. Songs have a beginning, middle and end. Most of what’s popular today doesn’t have that - it’s more like never-ending chants with no variation.
Interesting. That's about the time I quit listening to pop music. And I agree with you that today's "music" has no melody. It's just crap.
My theory is that all the good song-writers are dead and have been for decades.
There's nothing out today that I would bother listening to.