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We're living in a musical golden age. CMV

For every post about Miley Cyrus and the downfall of music, I just want to scream. How are we not celebrating how great music is now? It's easier than ever to find new music, and listening to it is just a click away. Electronic music is exploding, and there's great music in every genre if you look. People who say Pop stars are at a new low are fooling themselves- popular music has always sucked- for every Beatles song there was an equally hollow, contrived song, like "Achey Breaky Heart," and "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."

A side rant-People are always knocking Kanye West, which I find ridiculous, because he's an incredible artist. You may not like *him* but his music is thought-provoking and well-made. 

EDIT: Here's a list of people/groups I like who have released albums in the past few years: A$AP Ferg, Air, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Autre Ne Veut, Azealia Banks, Flying Lotus/Captain Murphy, Chance the Rapper, Chromatics, Ciara, Com Truise, Danger Doom (Danger Mouse and MF Doom, both of whom I like, as well as Gnarls Barkley), Destroyer, Drake, Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean, Grimes, Grizzly Bear, Grouper, Hot Hot Heat, The Internet, Juliana Barwick, Justin Timberlake, Kaiser Chiefs, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Kurt Vile, Madeon, Miguel, Neon Indian, Passion Pit, Purity Ring, Solange, The Sizlacks, STS9, Major Arcana, Vampire Weekend, The Weeknd, Wild Nothing, and 3LAU.

EDIT 2: Because of some comments, I would like to clarify why I think we're in a musical golden age. It all boils down to a) availability b) production.

**AVAILABILITY**

Go on google right now and search for the early 90's hit Whoomp! There it is. 2 seconds later, you have access to the music video, the lyrics, and an encyclopedic entry on the history of the song and its creators. You can also browse similar music, and even own the song in seconds. 

You think you would do that before the advent of the internet? No! You would sit around, trying to remember that song that went, Whoomp! There it is, before putting it out of your mind.

You can access music from thousands of years ago from around the globe! You can listen to amateur musicians at the click of a button. Want to learn to play guitar? As long as you have a guitar, you can become a master for free, just by searching on the internet (and approximately 15000 hours of practice) Hell, you can even upload your own music. That's something special, right there.

**PRODUCTION**

I'm 18, so I've grown up in an era full of electronic music. If you don't like it, fine, but you cannot deny that there was a genre explosion once ordinary people could start making music on their computers. From Daft Punk to The Haxan Cloak (just look it up), there's a niche for you. Plus, production is much cheaper, and you can find quality production outside of big names and big labels nowadays. 

EDIT 3: Also, I would just like to say my mom is a full-time Jazz musician, fairly well respected in the Bay Area, but definitely not big time.
gpt
There's no such thing as a musical golden age, because there's no reliable metric to gauge the quality of music of a given period, and the reason for that is that the only metric one could point to for such a quantification (the success of a given artist/song among the population it's made available to) is a constantly shifting dynamic influenced by an interplay of a shitload of factors. 


Also, you cited A$AP as being an example of good music today... and you picked *Ferg* ? Rocky tears his shit up.