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It's not the "music" itself, but what is picked and how the show is ran. The unfortunate thing now is that it's mainly bubblegum without any true balance or holes in the system that provided some kind of well-heard alternative in the past in the Pop Scene. By The 90's, I'm sure some respected musicians got lectures from the New Suits on how to record their music - not advice, but hard lectures which read "get a hit or else".

Here's a fact that set the scene - during the MTV days, the companies spent themselves blind on those big music videos. Compile that money losing fact with their crap attempts to go modern with the technology or even ignoring it in true old fart fashion through The 90's, and you can see where their goal is the big hit and not the longer lasting great song. Passing the bill to the bands who would usually be left out in the cold used to work until they finally read what was going on.

The fact is that the number of people who treat music like wallpaper will always outnumber those who will seriously listen to it, and the industry was always trying to find ways to win full stop. Ever since the majors finally got a hold on how to handle music promotion in the post-MTV generations, after of course forming into one big monster with several heads, they closed and triple locked the doors making sure those who get in hold the cards given to them who will not question authority.

It's usually kind of like working at a big block store or Fast Foods - the star is behind the cash register being young and presentable while the lucky workers who know their place slave behind the instruments. No ugly old know it all is to be seen up front or anyone who represents something different, unless the elder is like a respected uncle or the something different is nothing more bit a small quirk they can work with.

Once something hits the Mainstream, it's usually this dire - Think of when MTV made it into every area in The US right in the middle of the Reagan years as well as being bought up by a TV company that thought of turning things away from it's original formula that did not provide stable ratings, think of when the method to chart music popularity called Soundscan only focused on the big stores (including Wal Mart!) who could afford to join in the beginning (many indie stores then rarely had a computer, and it's possible that some smaller chains also lacked the equipment, too!), think of when Boy and Girl groups dominated after Grunge faded away.


So in other words, real music listeners of all stripes including Pop always were seriously out numbered, it's that now the gap is even wider. It always was...that's usually a good thing.

Plus when the business went seriously visual through the Internet and DVD (Video Disc Killed the Audio Star!), the game plan had to be changed. And you can see through the carefully structured videos where that belief went into full force in the Music industry...

There may be a change in the near future, who knows?