Could another reason be because today’s young musician includes people who only use recorded drums and synthesized or manufactured ‘push button’ music for their spoken word or rap pieces? Just as in visual art, today, you don’t really need to go to an art school to be a successful graphic artist. All you need do is to be familiar and at ease with the many graphic software programs, starting from Photoshop and building out from there, into computer generated cartoons. I would presume there is an equivalent advantage now available to sound artists, or musicians.
All other forms of music currently hold their own against electronic music. Now in the studio, that would be another matter, what with computer programs like “Autotune” used to correct bad takes to put the singer’s voice back in tune (the same software that makes atonal speech sound like singing, i.e. for comedic effect).
There is. And Beat port is filled with clone music because of it.
I do electronic music as a hobby and anyone can spend a couple hundred bucks and ‘make music’ in Fruity Loops. the problem is, they do. Which is why electronic gets such a bad rep.