>>126953690
It's a sign of the next pendulum swing. Music has always come in periods of stagnation and experimentation and until now we've been living in the longest period of stagnation yet, which seems to have began in the early 2000s with the invention of the internet making almost music ever created available to everyone alive.
It seemed like a good thing for human creativity at first, but now the algorithms make sure everyone on the fucking planet has the same taste and the same influences, the horizons of their minds too saturated with homogenous slop to make anything great out of. 2010s pop was extremely 90s-derivative, current pop is extremely 80s-derivative. The ironic silver lining is that pop culture has become forced to the point that it's white noise to the zoomer brain, and boredom is the father of all experimentation
