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It’s Not Our Imaginations…Modern Music Really Does Suck

Vern Scott
9 min readJun 15, 2023

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At first I thought it was my old-age bias, thinking “why was my 50s-80s music so much better?”. Well it turns out that music during the last 25 years or so has been scientifically proven to be on the decline. This brings up similar questions regarding literature and film. After an innovative, melting-pot explosion in creativity in the middle of the last Century, is artistic direction now driven by high-tech, profitability, and the dumbing-down of the audience?

Bob Dylan (shown with Joan Baez), inherited the folk mantle from Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie, Lead Belly and others. Dylan spanned many musical genres, which represented a rich and possibly unprecedented musical fusion. Incidentally, I saw Dylan/Baez in concert in 1976, and Baez’ live voice blew my socks off!

I am far from an expert on the history of music. Like many, I listened to music from the 50s onward, learned the piano, played a band instrument, and recently took several Music classes hoping to get an AA Degree. Yes, I’m not a musical expert, but I have enough experience to know when I smell a rat. Modern music (unless I’m missing something) started to become homogenized about 25 years ago when my back was turned. The resultant Justin Biebers, Britney Spears, Katy Perrys, and Mariah Careys I dismissed as harmless bubblegum pop (like The Archies, David Cassidy, or Bay City Rollers in the old days). But after watching the Youtube Video “Why is Modern Music so Awful” (upon which much of this article is based). I’m realizing that modern music is indeed awful, even scientifically, and demonstrably so!

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Vern Scott
Vern Scott

Written by Vern Scott

Scott lives in the SF Bay Area and writes confidently about Engineering, History, Politics, and Health

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