Why is modern pop music today so terrible?


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All we hear is Lady ga ga
 Lady goo goo
 Lady ga ga
All we hear is Lady ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio, what's new?
Radio, someone still loves you!
I personally value music by artistic and technical effort no matter what style, genre or generation. Radio or media was always standard and limited to only certain music I guess at any time since I'm cognitive less few NPR radio-stations across the nation.
In today's radiostations the quality of music decreased, but not elsewhere outside of this 21st century profit drive of industries. Hopefully days go by and music will reborn with more real talents deserving to be heard on radio and seen on public television
I thought we're talking about popular music. 
Popular music has it's own agenda to be popular and targeted to uninformed crowd at all times. Any idea why Leonard Bernstein was NOT part of Boston Pops? I guess because music isn't really part of radio pop and it's definitely a separate meaning.
Tchaikovsky back in his days published piano pieces 12 Months in 12 journals so that casual and barely trained person could entertain oneself with relatively easy sheet music.
Today there's no need to know sheet music, because it could be heard on radio and radio is guilty of all charges to deliver popular music. I had music basics as a school curriculum to know basics of SolFegio, therefore I guess I value complexity and effort to play certain piece or perform. 
Did anyone enjoys David Rose or Ray Conif? That stuff will trigger my "wtf am I listening to..." phrase. It's pop.  
One word... Cornpression :/


...and everything else should be OK if compression is removed.
@goose ,

in the nut-shell it doesn't exist, but outside of it there's lots of ways to find great today's music around the world -- all you need to do is turn off radio and teevee and start lookin' for tunes that are good. there's still Berkeley and Cambridge schools of music around and those are super GOOD.

pop music is simple way to get money with little effort applied at all times since we started recording artists.

Rihanna, Justin Timberlake or Bieber or Beyoncé aren’t any better or worse than Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Bette Midler or Pat Benatar .

Dean Martin proved to the world that miserable crooner as he was couldn’t be a jazz singer. Barry Manilow also proved that he’s just another miserable microphone dude as well.

Wat else u can expect from pop? It’s cheap to build and bring -- that’s all its purpose for all times and days.

Pop and music are two different meanings where music requires continuous and intensive training and practicing and pop just only needs ’pre-cooked show biz recipe’. As an analogy, you can compare canned food with home made or chef made fresh food.

Give me the big band that was at least comprised of musicians who could play.

Brad

Voila:

1. Carla Bley Big band

2. Sun Ra and his Arkestra

3. Fela Kuti big band

4. Makossa (Manu Dibango) big band

5. Snarky Puppy big funky band

6. Frank Zappa

7. Tower of Power

8. Earth Wind And Fire

9. Cesaria Evora big band

10. Nils Lundgren's Jazz Baltica big band

11. Quincy Jones big band

12. Lalo Schifrin big band

13. Buenos Aires string tango band

EWF is too complex for pop. It's funk-jazz-rock-soul talented blend.
Check out 11-piece band Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble. It's modern swing/free jazz.