[oldtownroad]

The music of today is built on the music of yesterday and so on and so forth. The top 100 of 1970 has very little variety when compared to the top 100 of 2023. There’s 5 decades of genres that have developed since 1970. Electronic music hadn’t even entered the mainstream! Go and listen to the top 100 of 1970 and then the top 100 of 2023.

You can argue that music in the 1970s was better / unique / less repetitive but to say it was more varied is demonstrably false.

[coldtea]

>There’s 5 decades of genres that have developed since 1970

Which is neither here, nor there, because those "5 decades of genres" are not represented in the current top 100 for the most part. Formulaic, cookie cutter, 2024 songwriting and production is.