I feel old when I say it, but — the pop music that they try to push on the public today is just really bad stuff. In the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s you could find real musicians trying to make real music. Nowadays it’s just manufactured flavor-of-the-month pablum.
AKA bubble gum...
You gotta look somewhere other than top-40 radio and the Billboard charts. Really good stuff is being played on college radio stations - if you can get past the inane sophomoric chatter between the songs. I’m in my 40’s but am still amazed by how much good stuff is still being created, and a lot of it is being played on college stations.
There has always been flavor of the month pablum and bubblegum.
They tried to call rock and roll a fad and to fabricate a bunch of clean cut poster idols, brill building ATTEMPTS at rock and roll (they had to pull to get their songs on radio as “hits” but they are pre-fab), etc.
Do I need to bring up radio hits like “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window”?
The industry WANTS “flavor of the month” because without pwnership by the industry hype machine, those bands don’t “exist”. There is no “there”. Here today, forgotten tomorrow.
At least in the days before EVERYTHING from concert promotion to ticket sales to venue ownership to broadcast radio, broadcast tv, and newspaper and magazine, a “local talent” could make it up the climb for success. Now if you are published by anyone but your major label, they don’t want you because they don’t OWN you. Elvis and Beatles and Nirvana wouldn’t get out of the gate today. And the wave of music that got on airwaves in their wake is likewise being held back.
The same Pravda Media that insists their political stances are “correct” hold the reigns on music.
There were bands that were shut out years ago too. The Velvet Underground were denied radio airplay and a push from MGM yet they are the first “modern” rock band and responsible for the development of everyone from Bowie to the avant garde stance on rock and roll at CBGB to the independent label sounds of the 1980s.
A band can survive without the hype, but it is hard on the band members.
There were numerous attempts to block these monopoly mergers but they never happened. Big Media owns our government.
I remember when my Grandpa would tell my Dad about Elvis. The good old music of the 30's and 40's in the Big Band/War era was what he thought was good and the rest of it that was from my Dad's era was crappola. It is good to know that the generations are following the familiar pattern of disowning the younger generation's music.