It’s crazy to say but music is DEAD. No artistry, no originality, no song of the summer. Wtf is going on?

It's been that for a while and while I am not one to complain all that much about it, I am deeply disturbed by what's happening to music in the past year or two. No originality, no innovation, lazy melodies, trite lyrics. It takes 10 people to come up with 1 song and the reason being that now, they get tons of people in a room to make these songs in the factory, ship it to the pop star who changes a word or two becomes the 11th co-writer re-records it in a 5 minute studio session over already finished song. It's sad.

The radio was on the other day and I did not like a single song that came on. Not 1.

Sigrid, Miley, and Carly have released decent music.

Beyonce and Taylor have definitely been underwhelming this time around, I'll give you that.

I feel like streaming’s made these new artists even more of a product than ever before and artistry is losing but then I look back at the “glory days” of pop music earlier in the decade and the hits back then were pretty generic as well, we just have a nostalgia attached to them.

This trap/pop/hip-hop mixture is by far the worst trend of the decade though. Even modern rock music is incorporating trap 💀. It’s so sad.

I feel like streaming’s made these new artists even more of a product than ever before and artistry is losing but then I look back at the “glory days” of pop music earlier in the decade and the hits back then were pretty generic as well, we just have a nostalgia attached to them.

Music from early 2010's was overall very good from a mainstream perspective. It was a lot better than music from early 2000s and I feel more nostalgic to that than I do music early from this decade but the end of this decade is looking grim, maybe the music just represents the political climate in the world, bleak and sad.

@Gfe said:

I feel like streaming’s made these new artists even more of a product than ever before and artistry is losing but then I look back at the “glory days” of pop music earlier in the decade and the hits back then were pretty generic as well, we just have a nostalgia attached to them.

Music from early 2010's was overall very good from a mainstream perspective. It was a lot better than music from early 2000s and I feel more nostalgic to that than I do music early from this decade but the end of this decade is looking grim, maybe the music just represents the political climate in the world, bleak and sad.

Yeah I don’t have much attachment to early 2000s music like I do with the 90s, late 2000s, and early 2010s. Music during both Bush era and now Trump era is super bleak.