Since I like a lot of songs that were very popular at some time in the late 60's, 70's, 80's and even to a limited degree the 90's, I can't really agree with that degree of top 40 pessimism, even though the majority of it will always have been crap. The current and the previous decade is unusual to me in that I can barely find 1 track I like in a whole year. The last top 40 hit where I admired the songwriting was probably that GOTYE song from a few years back.
Semi related: I was stunned to see how good taste average people seemed to have (so to speak - I'm not the arbiter of good taste) at this years Eurovision song contest . I thought the winner was far and away the best song in the whole mess of a show. Probably one of at best three I'd even consider above mediocre.
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