I have heard of a grand total of zero songs on Billboard's current Hot 100

My ears were watching something else.

 

It's fine for what it is, I guess. But when did every male pop star turn into such a fucking metrosexual pussy? Even Bryan Adams and Richard Marx plausibly seemed like dudes that you'd see at the store buying a steak.

 

I think you have to listen to Top 40 radio to actually hear these songs. I don't. I listen to:
* My Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify
* A classic hip-hip station
* A classic rock station
* An "alternative" station, whatever the hell that is anymore
* Some independent radio
* My daily Spotify mixes

Ergo, I'm simply not exposed to anything that would plausibly make the top 100.

 

I'm in that boat, too. I don't listen to FM radio, at all. Maybe at Christmas a little bit.

 

I can appreciate the sentiment of the post.

You've heard Closer though. Everyone has heard Closer. If you have walking by a thing playing music, you have almost certainly heard Closer.

I cannot recall pop music, as a whole, ever being worse than it is right now. Ever.

 

Agreed.

 

And when you point it out, you get accused of trafficking in, "Get off my lawn, kids"-ism. But sometimes, throughout the history of popular recorded music, there are periods when people were right: It sucked. Hair metal sucked. Disco sucked.

 

Yeah, but he didn't sing pussy music, like Bieber and those Mexican guys.

 

Hmmm. Sing the refrain of "Crocodile Rock" out loud and see if you don't feel a little light in the loafers.

When it came out, it wasn't generally known or acknowledged that EJ was gay (he came out as "bixexual" in 74-75) and the story was that the entirely heterosexual and totally macho Elton was just singing the falsetto "la-la-la" chorus as a completely campy goof.

And us rough tough HS sophomores and juniors sang it too. As a goof.

Laaaaaaa ... la-la-la-la-la ... La-la-la-la-la ...

 

"Daniel" makes Bieber sound like Metallica.

 

Not sure about Bowie, but Elton John prefers to eat sausage more than steak.

 

Disco was better than what we have right now.

I can affirm the ideas behind Kendrick Lamar's music. He has gifts as a storyteller. It's hard to call it a good listen. It's discordant like uneven jazz and the guy's voice is nasally like Eminem's, only worse.