The problem with pop music isn't that it sounds bad (though to me it does, but as we've established, that's subjective!), but rather that the industry is rigged to prevent the popularity of anything that deviates significantly from the status quo. The music itself isn't the issue, but the system is quite fascist and insidiously hinders the expression of certain ideas. Of course, the internet provides a platform for music aside from pop, but you have to be a young, pretty and vapid pop performer more often than not if you want good promotion. Most people's tastes are developed by what they're exposed to by the radio and TV, and there just isn't enough variety if you're tuning in to the popular channels, as most people do. You shouldn't have to actively seek out a new idea, as with TV, radio and the internet, we have the technology to expose everyone with electricity to lots of variety and give them the opportunity to make up their own minds on lots of issues, not just music. Unfortunately, that technology instead is used to indoctrinate people into the "work for money, then use it consume the things made by more affluent people than you thereby making them even more rich" system.
In a nutshell: pop music is a commodity and is used to keep people poor and ignorant in the same way TV and alcohol is used, and that is the problem, not the music in and of itself.
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