Originally Posted by Abearmauledme

I was just having an argument the other day with a friend who said that pop music today is as good as pop music has ever been. i personally think this is false. i tried to argue that big band jazz (just one example) was the popular music of its time and that it is far more complex than anything in the top 40 now-a-days. For some reason, he also seemed to think that music played with instruments is not anymore legit than **** created on a computer. I just think that popular music has devolved a lot. It started with Classical music (infinitely more complex) and we are now at Ke$ha.