[fidelis]

Speaking only for myself, I’m 64 and I have listened to popular music all my life. All kinds and genres (except country, folk, hard rock and obscure “niche” genres), from the 1940’s and 50’s (technically before my time), through the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and late 90’s— far beyond my teenage and young adult and “memory making” periods. After about 1999 or so, most new music simply does not appeal to me.

People try and tell me, “Oh no, they’re still making good music— you just have to know where to look!” But I do look and it all sounds like repetitive noise to me. I ask them, “Well, show me some examples; what do you recommend?” So they give me recommendations on YouTube or whatever and it isn’t my preference or style. Today’s music simply does not strike me as creative, melodic, catchy, fun, or heartfelt as what I would call “good music.” Maybe it’s just me. I’m still looking and open to new artist and music within my own areas of preference and would love to be proved wrong.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

OK, I HAVE to ask.

1. Are you still needed?

2. Are you still feeded?

[GingisK]

You are right!! Let’s do a couple of rounds of Henry the Eighth or Do Wah Ditty Ditty Dum Ditty Do! Or “Hot Town Summer in the City”.

[Yardstick]

It’s not just you. I can totally relate to what you’re saying. My searching for good new music has come up so empty that I’ve changed strategies. I now mostly look for older music that’s “new” to me, and I’ve branched into less familiar genres, mainly older jazz and R&B, to find new stuff to listen to.

[MoochPooch]

Today’s music simply does not strike me as creative, melodic, catchy, fun, or heartfelt as what I would call “good music.”

You're right. It just seems sterile. Same with most of the movies. Few of them have any pull.

The late 1980s seemed to be the "beginning of the end." At least for me; that's when I started to find an aesthetic sea change in our pop culture.