-Taylor Swift didn't become decent until folklore.
-90s American twee> 80s UK twee
-Triarchy of Lost Lovers>Non Serviam
-Rotting Christ have
some
decent output outside of traditional black metal
-The best blues music is the super old stuff with poor production values
-Mitski's "Nobody" is one of those singles that gets exceptionally popular, and while being a good/decent song, comes from an album with many far better songs
-"Dog Days are Over" from Florence in the Machine is in a similar scenario to the above example
-Melanie Martinez's pre-Portals was traditional pop music that happened to be wearing an outfit from Hot Topic
-Enslaved's blackened prog> Frost and Eld