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human
I believe that pop music has never been as bad as it is right now. For god sakes CMV

I *hate* the idea of the "good old days". I am a firm believer that art, culture, quality of life in general have been on a steady incline for a long time, I would not trade places with anyone from any time, even with everything that's screwed up right now.

So when I hear people start bitching about how much better popular music used to be, even bubblegum crowd-pleasing schlock, a part of me really wants to come to the defense of this decade, but I can't because I agree with them.

Someone, please, tell me I'm wrong (no sarc).

Edit: I've been asked to explain why I feel this way: 


The degree to which, and number of ways in which it is repetitive is unprecedented. After listening to top 40 radio for half an hour, you will hear the same percussion, same synth patches, same lyrical content, same melodic contour, same, drop, same lazily implemented auto-tune. 

Within each song, you will hear the same phrase repeated over and over. Because these songs are mixed for earbuds, they will have the same dynamic level throughout the whole song, absolutely no variety whatsoever. It is increasingly trendy to take a phrase that is repeated, then repeat only a word, and then finally to repeat a single syllable within that word 

*"I'm drowning, I'm drowning, I'm drowning, ing, ing, ing, ing"*

It is incessant, it is unvarying, it is monotonous, it is positively nauseating. 

Edit: Would really love to post a delta today. I'm trying really hard to keep an open mind here.
gpt
Apart from any technical criticisms, consider this: even the shitty music from the past is basically the greatest hits of the shitty music.

You are actually right, the worst music you will hear *will* be very new. This is because nothing that bad can survive the tastes of a few years. It's like how you don't see any adults with existing fatal childhood illnesses.

But to rebut your point: after 10 years, all the "pop" music from now will be within an acceptable range of taste compared to all the music from previous decades. There is nothing special about this era that means the music is bad, but contemporary music will *always* be bad.