Why is modern pop music today so terrible?

Gentlemen, gentlemen....time and tide changes all...

Tastes change, as does the medium by which one gets to play it on.  The industry (and it is) responses by modifying how and what gets 'tweaked' in the process of recording for the means of playback.  Twas always thus....

I hark back to a movie, "The Phantom of the Paradise" with Paul Williams playing the Devil (or his stand-in...and a diminutive one at that *L*).  He's in a studio, recording a man whose had all his teeth removed singing a song in a voice that's barely better than a frog croaking.

After running him through the parametric EQ's and various other 'devices' (most of which have been superseded, as it IS an old movie...), his original voice is restored to it's glory....

When I read discussions like this, I *L*, and move on to the next forum...;)

" Debussy understood that a work of art, or an effort to create beauty, was
Always regarded by some people as a personal attack."

The Seduction of Claude Debussy, The Art of Noise

Good, bad, and indifferent has Always existed.  Sometimes genius is only seen in the rear view mirrors of time.  Remember that fist fights used to break out at the debut of works that we regard now as art.  We don't fortunately have many of those event follow-ups of late, and it's good to see that the company gathered Here is keeping a lid on it. ;) *G*

I have my favorites.  Y'all have yours.  Place your bets on who and what will survive the grindstones of time and tastes.

Will the aliens, after sampling the selections on the Voyagers, show up demanding more Elvis?  Or will they get more 'au courant' on their way here?  One has to keep in mind that radio waves are expanding at the speed of light and Veger 1 &2 are a little pokey in contrast...*S*

What if they want Sum 41?  Or the Black Keys ("You can go with this, or you can go with That...") ?  Will they be fans of Deadmau5?  Or Pussy Riot?

I gave reading minds....same 4 things, basically.  Predicting the future is a waste of time, which we don't have enough of....

"Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

Ellen McIlwaine, song of the same line....;)

stfoth...*L*  Well, yeah, that's a distinct possibility...one might argue that 'suffering for art' is a consequence that has ramifications that weren't considered initially.  Hopefully one might get the opportunity to find out what selection pissed them off the most and render an apology before having the planet scoured of the 'sentient life forms' (sic) that were responsible for it....;)

Personally, I agree with Angus McKee in "So Beautiful and So Dangerous" that the only reason they'd visit is to pick up ball-point pens.  It's the only reason...other than we're famous for being so marvelously screwed up and better left to ourselves....on a beautiful planet we're thrashing as fast as possible...

You don't mess with your neighbors...neither do they....;)