Why is modern pop music today so terrible?

@bdp24 +1!!!!!!  I do my best to follow "pop" and I keep finding my gems here... Pop does not get played as often as Bruckner or Tchaikovsky on my system but some of my fav "pop" artists challenge my middle-age shift into classical... How/where do you place Black Star (not in heavy rotation here but still...)?!!!!!!  my personal Pop artists are David Sylvian, Steven Wilson, some ECM offerings (Bartsch, Molvaer, etc) but its just me, incurable introvert and Klaus Schulze collector. 
What surprised me is that no one caught that the original YouTube video is a nicely done (OK, Amazingly Done!) synopsis of a book "The Song Machine. Inside the hit factory". I downloaded it from Amazon a while back, still cannot finish it: I do not like horror stories!! 
But the video nails it!! And the boy is soo charismatic!   ;-) 

Ghosthouse, watch "The Wrecking Crew".http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/about.php
They were actually the band we were listening to on all kinds of records. Cowsills, 5th Dimension, Beach Boys, Monkees, The Association, on and on. I am pretty thrilled that I get to walk into the spaces those folks used to work (East West Studios for example). The vibe is there for sure. And they were and still are great songs.

Brad

Hello Trans.  I know about The Wrecking crew, but not the entirety of the records they backed.  Have not yet watched the movie.  Need to rectify that.  More and more for me, it's the behind the scenes people...the studio musicians, engineers, producer/arranger(s) I admire - esp. the latter, as was Walter Becker's forte.