Has popular music got worse?
 

I think chart music has gotten worse in the 2010s. The music from previous decades was better, though there are still some good bands/artists out there like Snow Patrol and Kelly Clarkson.

It's all personal preference. I stopped liking mainstream stuff about 6 years ago.

Music hasn't been good since like 1999. You're off by about 15 years.

There has always been bad pop music. It's the stuff that never gets played anymore. Only the best of the best last throughout the decades. As with previous decades, the worst pop music of today will not survive the test of time, and will never be played in 2044.

Just try finding the "top 100" songs of a given year in the '50s, or '60s. How many of those songs have you never heard of?

You're right about pop music. I didn't pay much attention to music until recently, but I agree that there is good and bad music in each decade. I mostly like music from the 60s, 80s, 90s and 00s.

While this is an incredibly subjective issue, I gotta agree with Cubed.

Yes. Besides most stuff I listen to comes before 2010, with the exception of Weird Al.

Pop music and and chart topping hits aren't usually that good. Just catchy stuff that makes people move for a few minutes. In every decade there's, more or less, an equal amount of good and bad music. It's easy to say that music has never been so bad these days but that's because most people don't remember crappy one hit wonders from the previous decades. Only the popular stuff that's considered somewhat good survives and stands the test of time. Or do you think people will actually remember Justin Bieber in 20 years? And what about bands such as Spice Girls and Duran Duran? How often do people mention them these days? They're merely afterthoughts.

I don't listen to 'popular' chart music so I probably couldn't say - my kneejerk reaction is to say that it's all just commercialized, auto-tuned crap, but then pop music has always been commercialized to a degree.

I think the music industry's in a crisis at the moment, put it that way, and creativity seems to be at an all-time low.

It depends. Some popular songs are actually pretty great, while others make me want to pull my hair out. There's good and bad in everything.

I agree. Some good popular songs in this decade are Burn by Ellie Goulding and Shake It Off by Taylor Swift.

Its been pretty bad since the mid to late nineties!

I love those

All of the music I listen to is before the mid 1990s, so I would say yes.

The music is the same, you're just old now.
Welcome to the ice flow, kid.

I listen to a lot of electronic dance music, you tend to hear it a lot on the radio, But it sounds way to commercial for my taste, Which is why I only listen to the underground stuff. Its kind of annoying hearing the music that kids today call Trance, And it sounds nothing like the the Trance I'm used to.

I think it just depends on the song or artist. I do like pop music, but there are some people I can't stand to listen to like Justin Bieber and One Direction. I do like Taylor Swift though and "Burn" is a good song, too.

Yes. Popular music hasn't been good since 1987.:tgrin:

Well, I might have been a bit harsh on this decade's popular music. There were some great songs released in 2011 such as Alice by Avril Lavigne and Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield. We are only about halfway through this decade anyway, so a lot of great music may be released in the following years. I think it's easier to pick out music that one likes from a ðecade when that decade has ended. When a decade is still ongoing, it's harder to pick out the music. Also, people have different tastes in music.

To be fair its not like Katy Perry or Taylor Swift are any worse than Britney Spears or Madonna.

If they were reversed in real life it would be the same.