I know good modern pop music exists, I'm talking about the terrible shit that plays on radios, commercials, TV etc. The stuff that the media has decided is current pop music.
This is probably my most boomer opinion , but most of it is awful. Where have all the strong voices gone? It's all baby voiced feel good insurance commercial stuff or warbley break-up songs.
If I hear another song that sounds like 'Tonights Gonna be a Good Night." or Ed Sheeran or any of the 100 songs sung by women that all sound like infants I am going to screm.
Also anyone notice that these songs are all safe as far as lyrics go? No ones allowed to be mad or defiant in music anymore. Its all "Lets party." or "Boohoo my Boyfriend left me." Mainstream music used to have tons of "Fuck the system" songs, not any more. There seems to be no genre represented outside of singer-songwriter. Also let women have strong voices again, damn it. Also let bands that play instruments exist. Let multiple genres exist!
Anyway, Boomer_Owl out
It's always kinda been like this. It's going to get worse though when 'Lofi beats to study / relax to' music ~~starts~~ continues taking over. Not to be like dramatic or conspiratorial or anything, obviously this is just the cheapest and most profitable way to create and distribute music. Spotify and other music platforms already try to define playlists by the-thing-you're-doing-while-the-music-is-playing, so studying, or working out, or cooking, 'vibing', or whatever whatever. There are essentially background music companies that completely obscure the creator of the music and the listener. It's easy to see with lofi beats because basically nobody recognizes the songs or the names of the artists. If you actually tried to look up the artist to see if they were gonna play in your city or whatever, it's just gonna be an impossible map of links that lead between highly CSS'd webpages streaming the same spotify, soundcloud, or youtube links.