No, I'm not saying all modern music is awful, but majority of the music that gets trending is terrible. Yet another girl that twerks for 3 minutes with a trap beat or some crappy awful rap song. Or Ariana Grande talking about another break up in the most boring cliché way possible. I guess since music is easier than ever to produce, now any clown can call themselves an artist.
Just keep in mind... The trending music in past decades was MJ, Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Cher, many, MANY decent to great rock bands and ballads. And I'm not forgetting the rap, rnb and hip hop, 2pac, salt n Peppa, en vogue, NWA, Biggie... There's an objective quality in these artist missing in majority of modern acts.
Hell, I would argue that decent artists from the 2010s like Taylor swift and Drake are getting lazy with their music as well, their songs being more focused on following those trending kids with awful music.
It's probably because your particular demographic is not what they are targeting with today's music.
The real money is in the young kids who use their allowance and part-time job earnings to purchase albums and to buy individual songs and to buy merch for bands.
If your particular aesthetics are stuck with what was popular in the 90s and early 2000s, chances are you have kids and responsibilities and you don't have the time or financial bandwidth to obsess over the latest trend in music.
Also, as we grow older we tend to grow more segregated and apart from our peers so we have less things to talk about and less things to relate to with music.
Those factors combine basically mean that you are aging out of pop music.
And that's okay, I recommend that you start looking more into independent labels and small bands with little following, you are more likely to find music that caters to your tastes if you put the work in, but Mass music is no longer catering to you and your preferences so it's up to you whether you want to live in a world without new music or not.
I don't have anything close to a family.... I don't see the relation anyways. Music currently is getting dumber and worse. I'm not offended, I'm not an old man saying that this music corrupts the young people, that is stupidity. But is definitely worse. Yeah it's catering kids... With worse music.
Why not? That's a fact. Right now there's like 2 girls twerking on YouTube for a rap video, you would think they're the strippers for the video, no they're the artist, and the lyrics are wank. They almost make Nicki Minaj's "anaconda" passable... Almost
Madonna is a real artist. That's the difference. Like a virgin, as provocative as it was, it was smart. The whole machine behind her was smart and even though provoking. Even his erotica days, as sexually as it was. I'm not against sex in music, but it needs a strong reason to be there.