Popular Music

I feel that the idea that popular music is boring and all copies of each other is not a new trend. Growing up my parents played the modern rock station in the car, and even as a child I found a lot of it boring and uninteresting. The same thing can be said about the oldies stations. There are so many songs that have boring chord progressions and lyrics, and the next singer sounds like the last. The only songs that you really listen to are the more popular songs, and that's because they are interesting musically and lyrically (usually), providing for the lasting popularity. This idea that it started like this with boy bands and girl groups of the 90s is not particularly accurate, at least not to me.