That’s interesting. Might I ask your age?
I enjoyed rock & roll in my teens and 20s. But, then marriage, home ownership, and three kids came along, and I didn't listen to much music. Now that I'm retired, I love discovering new music on Spotify. Lots of contemporary folk, blues, Americana, female vocalists (200 songs), guitar (Al Petteway, Bill Frisell, Julian Lange, Jesse Cook, Ed Gerhard, Leo Kottke, Phil Cook), acoustic covers, "eclectic" (400 songs).
There's an amazing wealth of music out there that you just could not (affordably) discover in the old days. Most FM radio after the "underground" era (think KSHE in St. Louis, KPIG in Berkeley) largely went commercial and had the same old repetitive playlists. AM was execrable. You just couldn't afford to buy lots of albums on a whim where maybe you liked one song.
Mainstream junk like Taylor Swift makes me want to poke my eardrums out. I swear, the industry has one song and they just keep tweaking the machine.
The innovation and vitality of TRUE young musicians today amazes me. Most aren't going to get rich, but they make amazing music. Here's a sampler I picked at random:
For example, try "In the Long Run" by The Staves, three amazing sisters with incredible harmonization. Family members often achieve harmonies not possible by unrelated people. I've only listened to that one song by the ladies, but hope to be pleased by more of their work.
I LOVE Molly Mason and Jay Ungar for their soulful banjo & fiddle interpretations of American classics that evoke hoedowns in the Old West (and new songs in old style). "The Ookpik Waltz." Their talent is astounding.
And I discovered a Saharan (Africa) band named "Tinariwen". Their people are called "Tuaregs," lineage is nomadic Berbers who have suffered for centuries as their land has been stolen by many countries. Song "Tamiditin."
Then there's Hayden Pedigo and his instrumental song "Letting Go." His genres are American primitive guitar, Ambient music, Avant-garde music.
Mipso's "Down in the Water" is a nice song from the album "Old Time Reverie."
Isato Nakagawa's "Rainbow Chaser is really pleasant and fun guitar.
In Americana, Jake Xerxes Fussell has contemporary arrangements of lots of historical US tunes as well as new songs. See "Push Boat."
Also in American is the husband / wife duo Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. "Ride to U".
Before they teamed up, "Bela Fleck & the Flecktones" was great. There's the very popular "Big Country" which always reminds me of Montana just a few miles east of me here in Idaho.
Or Rhiannon Giddons, a classically trained musician who sings and plays fiddle and banjo. "Shake Sugaree"
I find it is uncommon for me to truly like a vocalist. Most cannot carry a tune and have awful voices, so I have a lot of instrumental music. But the vocalists I have liked I find to be truly exceptional.
So there you have it -- far more than you asked for. But hopefully these few selections give some folks some joy. I could export a list of groups in my playlists from Spotify, but it would be way too long to post here. But you get the idea -- almost no mainstream music.