The reason Lady GaGa and Katy Perry are so popular is that a lot of people just want a good beat and something easy to dance/sing to in the car. They don't want to analyze or think too hard about what they're listening to, and that's perfectly fine. And for the record, a lot of pop music throughout the ages has been about sex, or drinking, or drugs, or whatever... it just wasn't as blatant. The Beatles wrote an ode to LSD, remember?
Regardless, there's plenty of great non-pop music out there right now. You just have to know where to look.
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