Well, they’re Billboard’s most popular, so people then disagreed with you.
I actually left off listening to the pop stuff as the decade went on. Everything derivative or Hollywood.
Oh, I completely get it. They were “chart toppers”. Played on both AM and FM Top 40 stations, I suppose. Pop stuff never did much for me either.
By the mid 70s, I was a teen playing guitar, so I was into much heavier/hard rock stuff.