@mahgister I sometimes look at it this way: how much of the music I listen to now do I think I'll still be listening to in 5 or 10 or even 15 years? And I think some music is perfectly fine to recognize as being of the five-year variety and then I'll let that music go because it has done its job and I'll move on to and consume another type of music that will last another 5 years.
But I think when we were younger we tend to pack a lot of music that does last for 15 20 25 years or longer, like even 50 or longer, and the more we have of that music the less patience we have for a lot of the stuff that comes after it. Like I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on Lady Gaga who is incredibly insightful and personal in her lyrics and music and is definitely not a manufactured, controlled mass produced artist. Not at all.
But then again, I remember a few years ago so and told me that Rihanna had a really good voice, and I remember saying something to the effect of how could you tell because she sounds the same as a lot of other singers. Which of course she doesn't and I know that but I'm not invested enough to actually discern her voice and approach to music among all the other artists who I think are similar.