Well, maybe.
Rap didn’t have to be all bad, but it certainly doesn’t have much musicality to it. Down to the vocal issue.
I love disco. But then, I love alot of stuff. Just not rap - or heavy metal/”hard” rock, which seems to always be the mainstay on the ‘net (along with fringe punk and the like) as if THAT was the popular music - not.
I forgot whether it was here or on the old IMDb boards where they put up the #1 song of each year (or Oscar-winning best song) from the 1960s to present day, and you could see the shockingly left of deterioration after the 1980s. Frankly, almost everything post-1990 is just awful.
I don’t think you did a rating of ‘90s songs, did you ? So much of the post-1990s stuff is so forgettable/derivative (or utterly execrable) that you can’t even really associate a song with a given year anymore (whereas before you could hear a song and instantly say, “1984 !” or “1964 !”). I remember not too long ago discussing in an urban forum with a bunch of suburban-raised White beta male douchecucks as they went on about how great “It’s Hard Out There For A Pimp” and I’m thinking, “Are you $hitting me ?” All tied to this cultural rot. Sometimes I feel like Charlton Heston in “Planet of the Apes” on the beach with “culture/society” being the ruins of the Statue of Liberty.