[dB Cooper]

Maybe you thought you were just getting "set in your ways" or that you were just reaching the point in life where your broad mind and narrow waistline were trading places, and that today's pop couldn't really be as boring, monotonous and soulless as it seems- but then along comes science to back you up:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop-music-has-actually-gotten-worse-8173368/?no-ist

Okay, I was baiting a bit with the thread title but you get the idea. It may be possible to create moving, soulful, evocative music in Garage Band, but quite frankly I've never seen it done, and I know lots of young folks who stand there beaming as if they'd just written "Pictures at an Exhibition" when presenting the worst crap you've ever heard. The musical world they've been exposed to is so small they literally cannot tell the difference.

Anyway, find yourself a grain of salt and read the article (longer version ois linked from there.)

[jarcher]

I think one of the commentators on the Scientific American web page linked to the Smithsonian.com link below  said it best :

While bemoaning that the current generation’s music is inferior to the older generation’s music is a great American pastime, there is nothing minimally Scientific about it, and the editors would do best to avoid suggesting otherwise.

There is so much music being produced today, "pop" or otherwise, that the raw #s alone would make you think there is just as much or more great music being created today than ever before, even I you do believe the "signal to noise" ratio is lower.