The Sine Wave of Pop Rock

   The '50s had good pop, but their rock was lacking, (makes sense seeing how it was just being invented.) In the '60s rock came into its own, and the pop scene declined. The '70s had good pop, terrible rock. The '80s had good rock, but awful pop. The '90s had good pop but crappy rock. The '00s had good rock, bad pop. See how this cycle works, decade by decade? Now it looks like it should be a decade of good pop music again, but... where is it? Where's the good pop music? It's as if pop music nowadays is designed to be bad. I'm not speaking through a filter of nostalgia or anything- it is literally that, as though the pop music is deliberately calibrated to be unpleasant.

(Video unrelated.) (No, seriously. I like Rebecca Black. But it serves as a good illustration to what I mean, N'est-Çe-Pas?)

   Deliberately writing songs in sharp, minor, and sharp minor keys, incessant electropop looping, vocals that are usually either grating (Lady Gaga, here's looking at you) or soulless (Lady Gaga, here's looking at you.) Take this music video, "Love You Like a Love Song" by Salena Gomez and the Scene (not to pick on anyone in particular, I just chose this particular video because Pink sucks (yes, Pink, and not Salena Gomez, it's not like I had a Pink video here before swapping it out or anything (not even I would subject you to that)-- there were originally pink ponies in this music video, which is apparently cruel to animals or something? and something something PETA something something P!nk. Well, screw you, Pink, that paint was non-toxic (And you can quote me on that. Put it up on a t-shirt, that'd be nice.)))

   Regardless of how you feel about the song itself (not that bad, I don't think) you can't deny that something went wrong in how they handled it. The... unpleasantness, there. Mixed in. It's characteristic of the entire modern pop genre. I don't mean the entire genre, but that... genre, of genre.