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Sure but its happening at a far faster rate than any precious generation. Modern music has become about profits first and the current generation cares more about novelty and branding than technical skill and emotional impact.

Pop music has been profits-first since pop music was a thing. There have always been acts that are less about musicianship and sending a message through their music and more about filling venues and making a buck. I mean, KISS have been at it for like half a century.

Plenty of modern musicians are technically proficient but forego making avant-garde music in favor of accessibility and mass appeal.

And again, if the music doesn't resonate with you, it almost certainly resonates with someone else. Resonates meaning in part that it has emotional impact. Might not impact you, but other people feel certain lyrics and arrangements differently than you do.

People can experience music at certain key points in their life that can create an emotional element that otherwise wouldn't be there. For instance, my mother played guitar and sang and used to play Dust In The Wind by Kansas. She passed away when I was young. I personally don't give a flip about the song, but when I hear it I get a bit melancholy. Perhaps a better example would be Jane's Addiction. Fell in love with a girl in high school and we'd stay up all night talking and making out while she listened to Nothing's Shocking end-to-end. I still get nostalgic when I hear it, even though I'm not the biggest JD fan, and I've moved on from that relationship long ago.

You might not see the appeal in certain musuc, but other people can have an attachment to even the dumbest fucking songs. And that's been true since forever