Every era has it’s groaners. Funny thing is some of those still render up memories for certain people.
I came to popular music at age 9. My family got a new stereo for Christmas 1964. I had an older brother and sister who were young teens just coming into the music scene at the time and I was into being a teen even though I wasn’t. First really big hit I remember was “Downtown” by Petula Clark. I actually naively wondered, “Is this song so good it will never fall off the popular music charts?”
Stayed with popular music up to about 1986. The breaker came with RunDMC covering Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way.” I hated the original and M-TV was promoting the new version like it was the greatest thing ever. I decided it was time...
At that point I actually went back to explore 50’s and early 60s music and especially Doo-Wop. If you play a classic doo-wop song on YouTube you will invariably find a comment from someone saying something like, “I love this music. I’m 15 years old. Why can’t we have this kind of music now?”
To this day 1965 is still my favorite year of pop music.
Of anything newer about all I can stomach is Adele. I liked one LP by Coldplay (Xs and Ys) but tried a few others and didn’t do anything for me.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by 1920s and 1930s music.
Yes, but her songs are heavily influenced by '60's soul/Motown, such as "Rumour Has It."