i mean is everything today absolute garbage? no. but the people making an argument that shit hasn't fallen off are scraping for marginal examples when if we made this post 20 years ago, they'd be reeling all sorts of shit off and getting co-signs. that is telling.

the main problem with the music industry today and also the film industry today is that the lowest common denominator of the audience has gotten more common and, in turn, lower. it used to be that popular media was directed at the very dumbest people in your own country. now it's directed at the very dumbest people IN THE WORLD, many of whom don't even speak the same language. mass appeal on steroids.