Allow me to explain....
When you talk from a "Lyrical" standpoint, a majority of today's popular music doesn't have much going for it. When a song like "I kissed a girl" by Katy perry is in the top 10 on the charts, then you know my claim to be true. Truth is, a lot of today's pop starts lack the passion and the talent of the stars from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Most of the lyrics are very generic, and sound like something you can write in your sleep. Again, look at a song like "Baby" from Justin beiber, that's probably the most repetitive string of lyrics I have EVER heard, and it's one of the most popular song's in the entire world :P HEY! If you like Justin bieber, that is fine...just trying to make a point.
Another thing I am very critical about in today's pop music scene, is the extreme over-use of "Auto-tune" or "Pitch-correction". For the most part it whas Cher that made auto-tune popular back in the 90's, with the song "Believe". The difference between that song and today's auto-tune, is that everyone already knew that Cher was incredible singer, so the auto-tune was just a fun little bonus she added to the song. But in today's music scene, almost ALL of the popular artists, use Auto-tune in every single song. Which gives most people the idea that they aren't very good natural singers, and need to have there voice "Altered" to sound good.
But of course, I don't dislike ALL of today's popular music. Take an artist like "Adele" for example. She has REAL talent, she has an incredible singing voice, she's a great songwriter, and doesn't ever need to use "Autotune". There are other artists just as talented as her in the music scene right now, but they don't nearly as much recognition or financial success that artist's like Katy perry, Justin beiber and Lady gaga get, and that really bother's me :/
