I was just thinking recently, a little while after I tried to speed past the music discussion to avoid a nose dive, I've felt I had gotten a better understanding on the dislikes of some older/current music. While some of it may do with the quailty, I think a decent chunk of it may be what you hear as you grow up (the music could just be good, but hear me out). How often are you looking back at a song because you were younger at the time and it brought back memories or it was a good first impression for a genre you would grow to love over the years? I'm not saying all of it's rose tinted glasses, more so that you hold the idea of how the people back then with that genre made that music and how now it doesn't feel the same or almost hits the mark. That's why some people would call the new stuff garbage and eventually give up on listening to radio. There could be a gem among the pile if you look. I should know, I was from the 2000s and there was and still will be (some) good music.

@Grab-n-Stash: I'm not trying to make an argument start again, just trying to explain why some people may think that way. There's always trash, I won't deny that. What I won't ever understand though is trashing music past a certain point with a broad brush. I grew up with some of the trash and the gold. I can offer my personal bad music list from the 2000s to the 2010s, but it won't ever be all of it.