Is today’s contemporary music lacking?


I listen to various genres of music, and I am a big fan of rock/pop from the 1950s to today.

When I turn in the radio to hear new pop/rock songs, I often hear “monotonous” verses with minimal melody repeated again and again (4x) then the chorus not quite matching the music of the verses. The artist seems to try using a good voice trying to make the song sound good but these songs seem to lack a good “melody”. Anybody else notice this?

Also, because pop/rock music is well established, is it more difficult nowadays to create new good melodies - are artists running out of creative ideas?  This thought has often crossed my mind whenever I hear another song remake.
kennyc

Showing 1 response by femoore12

Every generation says this about the next generations music. Some genres are worse and some are better. The music industry is just that… an industry. They produce formula driven music to make money/profit. It’s been that way since the music industry started. Hell, musicians were writing and performing music directly for their wealthy benefactors long before there was an industry. So they wrote and performed music only for the wealthy. 
There is still fantastic new music being produced every year. Just stop expecting everything to sound like the cliched overplayed crap from the previous decades. 
Also, Bob Dylan sounds like absolute a**. Talk about someone that could have used autotune if it was available. 
Cheers.