Watched the MTV awards that night

Yes, unfortunately it can.

No Mapman, it can't. At least I hope not. It's real bottom of the barrel stuff, just trash. But there's always plenty of good stuff happening "underground". For my musical taste (hard country, bluegrass, roots rock, singer-songwriter), the No Depression website and newsletters are indispensable.

Taters, I bet your parents raved about Guy Lombardo,Lawrence Welk,Eddie Fisher,Dinah Shore,etc. It was crap to us but great stuff for them. Lets face it we are Dinosaurs!

Ha! Yogiboy, I know some guys who constantly complain that the music they like (often British Invasion) isn't popular anymore. I gave up reminding them that their parents said the exact same thing about The Beatles (who seem to have a lot of the complainers as fans) when they (my friends) were kids. Why would one expect following generations to have the same taste as ours? We had our time, now it's theirs!

Pop music has always been pretty lowest common denominator. The LCD has changed a lot and probably broadened over teh years resulting in a bunch of stuff that mostly all sounds and looks the same.

Its all the other stuff always around that gets factored into it and lost in the shuffle worth seeking out. It'll be different strokes for different folks, not the amorphous blob basement dwelling LCD.