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.
No, only did ‘80s.
Could do ‘90s as there was SOME good stuff (love Mariah), but most of it would be ‘80s derivative. Early ‘90s I was in college still and there was still some neat stuff, but also (cringe) “grunge”, which defines everything since. Whining, girls and guys “singing” like they’re just getting out of dental anesthesia, never mind the horrid rot they “sing” about.
(How about the song that’s a hit recently - he’s waxing romantic about holding her head while she pukes? Nothing says romance like puking.)
I went country in the ‘90s; great fun and dancing. But now, “country” seems far too mainstream sound. Sometimes I can hardly tell which station it should be on.