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

Congrats. A bunch of you sound just like your parents, and talk just like you said you never would when your parents complained about music back in the day.

I've heard 5, 8, 13 (its a really catchy song). A couple others.

Seriously, you haven't heard that Coldplay/Chainsmokers song Something Just Like This?

As the Wolf says in Pulp Fiction, "move out of the sticks, fellas". In this case, the sticks being sj.com

 

Again: My parents had almost certainly heard of most songs in the top 100 or at least the top 20-40 in 1985, when they had kids the same age my kids are now. For God's sake, "We Built This City" was one of them, generally acknowledged as the worst pop song of all time. I'm sure Mad $krilla featuring Justin Bieber and L'il Doggy Dogg isn't worse than that.

I'm not complaining about the music. I don't know that a single poster here has. We just don't hear it because, I think, adults don't seem to drive the top 40 any more.

"Minecraft" is the new devil's music.

 

I always thought Flo Rida and Florida Georgia Line were the same act, I think. Or I never distinguished between them. Looking at last year's top 100, I now realize that they are two very different artists, but perhaps I'm just stereotyping.

 

Who?

 

My parents took pride in shitting on pop/rock music back in the day. My parents wouldn't have known one of these artists, unless Neil Diamond snuck on the list.

"Like a Virgin" - Madonna
"I Want to Know What Love Is" - Foreigner
"Careless Whisper" - Wham!
"Can't Fight This Feeling" - REO Speedwagon
"One More Night" - Phil Collins
"We Are the World" - USA for Africa
"Crazy for You" - Madonna
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" - Simple Minds
"Everything She Wants" - Wham! (I don't know that one)
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears
"Heaven" - Bryan Adams
"Sussudio" - Phil Collins
"A View to Kill" - Duran Duran (I don't know that one)
"Everytime You Go Away" - Paul Young
"Shout" - Tears for Fears
"The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis
"St. Elmo's Fire" - John Parr (I listened to it this morning!)
"Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits
"Oh Sheila" - Read for the World (I don't know that one)
"Take on Me" - A-Ha
"Saving All My Love for You" - Whitney Houston
"Part-Time Lover" - Stevie Wonder
"Miami Vice Theme" - Jan Hammer
"We Built This City" - Starship
"Separate Lives (Theme From White Nights)" - Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin (I don't know this one, but I have no doubt it is awesome)
"Broken Wings" - Mr. Mister
"Say You, Say Me (Title Song from White Nights)" - Lionel Richie (I don't know what "White Nights" is, but apparently it was big in late 1985)

 

Preteens and early teens drive Top 40. Always have (check the history of Billboard charts), more than people my age would care to remember about the '60s and early '70s. Hell, my children are too old for it now. To be frank, they and their contemporaries aren't much interested in pop music at all.
Poin, your parents never watched Miami Vice? Usually all ages are familiar with TV themes.

 

I started to listening to top 40 stations when I heard Hotel California for the one trillionth time.

There is nothing wrong with pop music today. This is a damn catchy song.

 

The best here is that there was a song called "Loverboy" and a song called "Lovergirl" back-to-back (28 and 29) on the year-end chart, by different artists.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1985 - Wikipedia

 

You are responding to an imaginary post.

 

Man, that Phil Collins was on fire!

 

Other than Madonna and maybe Wham! ... no fucking way:

"Like a Virgin" - Madonna
"I Want to Know What Love Is" - Foreigner
"Careless Whisper" - Wham!
"Can't Fight This Feeling" - REO Speedwagon
"One More Night" - Phil Collins
"We Are the World" - USA for Africa
"Crazy for You" - Madonna
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" - Simple Minds
"Everything She Wants" - Wham! (I don't know that one)
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears
"Heaven" - Bryan Adams
"Sussudio" - Phil Collins
"A View to Kill" - Duran Duran (I don't know that one)
"Everytime You Go Away" - Paul Young
"Shout" - Tears for Fears
"The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis
"St. Elmo's Fire" - John Parr (I listened to it this morning!)
"Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits
"Oh Sheila" - Read for the World (I don't know that one)
"Take on Me" - A-Ha
"Saving All My Love for You" - Whitney Houston
"Part-Time Lover" - Stevie Wonder
"Miami Vice Theme" - Jan Hammer
"We Built This City" - Starship
"Separate Lives (Theme From White Nights)" - Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin (I don't know this one, but I have no doubt it is awesome)
"Broken Wings" - Mr. Mister
"Say You, Say Me (Title Song from White Nights)" - Lionel Richie (I don't know what "White Nights" is, but apparently it was big in late 1985)

 

But Loverboy still sucked.