i actually feel like music has recovered for the most part from the desolate wasteland that was 2008-2013 pop (thinking tpain autotuned influenced rap, the dubstep stuff, whatever LMFAO was, avicii etc ) and now we have far more diverse and talented people (especially black women rappers) than we have had in years. like even our gen of pop girls (charli, billie, olivia, ariana, taylor, dua, carly rae ) all sound different from each other when jack antonoff isnt doing the production...although dua does feel less distinctive sometimes

i dont think the mid 2000s were that bad music wise because rap / RnB and hip hop were at least was very very very good and arguably at one of it's peaks (kanye, missy, ciara, luda, pharrell, mario, omarion, ashanti, ja rule) although most rock at that time seemed to be anime music video rock