The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!!

Pop music has been on a pretty steady downward spiral for 100 years now.

It's been 54 years since the Beatles  stopped making music.  That late 60s early 70s period would probably qualify as the renaissance period of adult rock and roll. Young people today who are exposed to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, the Who and others often regard one of them as among their favorite bands--usually Beatles or Zep

I listen to music every day and buy a significant amount of current fare. I admire and listen to countless new stuff- Taylor ( very good although the lyrics are usually directed toward female sensibilities), Chappel Roan, Killers, 21 Pilots, Billie Eilish to name a few as well as new country and Americana (too numerous to mention). I enjoy a lot of current music, but I do not believe the vast majority will be something that be listened to 50 years from now. I'm not talking about a song here or there--I'm talking about an artist.

So, despite the fact that every generation has its own music, I do think that as a rule, the music of the late 60s - early 70s is "better", that is, appeals to a wider array of people and generations than the music of today. 

The arc of music like literature, art, and architecture has been bending upward since the dawn of time, so I don’t understand the premise of the video.  As a boomer, I’d be happy to never hear music from the ‘60 and ‘70’s ever again.  The newer the music, the more I’m interested in it.

He sounds like people of my parents' generation moaning about the Beatles and and that new rock and roll stuff - 'that's not music! That's screaming!' -  when they first came on the scene, and why can't the kids like Perry Como and Dean Martin like they do? That's real music....

+1 @larsman .  My Dad really liked the Lawrence Welk show, but he didn't seem to have any use for much else.  Nothing that I liked, anyway.

In my opinionRick is correct.  So what is good music?  You need to be able to write a song that will tell a story, play an insturment(s) to convey the message, have the music well recorded, mixed and mastered.  If you think that you can sit at laptop with a variety of plug in's and make a decent song / recording, it's not going to happen.  The music will always be artificial and without any soul.  If you're lucky, you have had some music training including songwriting.  If not you will be lost. 

I don't stream because it doesn't sound as good as hard media and the artists get ripped off.  My brother has a real recording studio and we can count on one hand how many "musicians" have had the perequisites listed above to be successful.  When they do, you do a proper microphone setup and let them play.  It's a pleasure to record them instead of a painful process in ProTools of cuting and pasting segments together because they don't know how to play their insturuments or sing with a crappy song.