The psychological aspects are certainly worth taking seriously.
But it also may be a factor that the music industry has been sucking for well over 20 years.
I see that you guys have this issue nailed, and I do not need to duplicate your efforts. Carry on!
Yep
1960's - Lots of Incredible Stuff
1970's - The Greatest Music Decade in the History of Mankind
1980's - Lots of Incredible Stuff
1990's - Some of Incredible Stuff
2000's - A catchy tune here or there
2010's - Pure suckatude
2020's - It can't get any worse, can it?
Those of us born in the 50s had the good fortune to see the rock’n’roll business from the time before it was a business.
Around the time MTV came in it was well on its way to becoming a fossilized dinosaur.
I heard a group of fifteen-year olds [the little Flash’s peer group]discussing among themselves this past weekend whether they liked “Stairway to Heaven.”
Which came out fifty years ago, 1971, when I was about that age.
Just for fun I googled the No. 1 song from 1921, fifty years before Stairway to Heaven came out. I was not sure if they even kept track back then.
The song was “I Ain’t Got Nobody”, by Marion Harris.
I guarantee you no one was interested in that song, certainly not the Marion Harris version, when I was a kid.
EXCEPT that it was made into the second half of a medley by Louis Prima in the 50s, which was covered by David Lee Roth in the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4lX0QyZc
But even that was 35 years ago.
And the youngsters are listening to Green Day, which to me is “new”, and in some cases not awful, but even they have been around for 35 years. I can also recognize half a dozen songs they’ve “borrowed” from, to put it nicely.
No one’s going to be listening to the crap that comes out today in five years, never mind 35, or 50.
It’s not really music. It’s syncopated talking.