Top 10 Worst Things About Pop Music

Pop music used to be great back in the day, when true pop artists like The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and The Monkees were creating music with actual meaning and originality.

Nowadays, most pop songs on the radio focus on shallow topics like sex, partying, drug use, physical appearances, getting drunk, and getting high on weed. The lyrics often seem superficial, and many artists gain fame more for their looks than for their actual talent.

What happened to authenticity? What happened to having morals and values?

This is the list you've all been waiting for. Here are the top 10 worst things about pop music, with a focus on modern pop music.

1. Constant talk about partying, sex, drug use, and alcohol

   This perfectly describes most songs in 2017 that you hear on the radio, such as I'm the One, Strip That Down, Anaconda, etc.

   I feel like there are, like, 10 artists who don't use partying, sex, drugs, "asses," and alcohol in their songs.

   I love pop music, but this reason is the only thing I agree with!

2. Auto-tune

   Actually, for 99% of the music industry, auto-tune is used to cut studio time in half. Not because the singer can't sing, but just to shorten time.

   I like it if it's used in an interesting way. If you consistently sing just a half step off key, it makes you sound like a glitchy robot. This is useful if you're Daft Punk or something.

   Scream singing takes practice. Auto-tune doesn't.

3. Artists becoming popular based on image, not talent

   Based on image? What the hell. Some pop stars can be real mingers, as I would've said when I was younger.

   I love One Direction, but without the looks, they would not be as famous as they are now.

4. Can influence bad behavior

5. Too simple

   Most pop songs today have chord progressions that sound like they've been done millions of times before, as well as themes that are very generic (usually about love and romance).

6. Is played everywhere

   There is no chance of preventing it from reaching your eardrums. On the radio, at a football match, at McDonald's - this stuff is played everywhere.

7. Fangirls

   There are fangirls everywhere. Deal with it.

8. Boring

   2018 music is basically the same mumble rap beat or K-Pop lyrics put on an infinite loop. Boring.

   You just hear the words over and over again. Simple beat.

9. Uncreative

   They all use the same chord progressions and beats. The lyrics are just one word over and over again, or something boring.

   They usually use the same four instruments, none of which are good. The singer doesn't even write the music because they are uncreative.

10. Terrible lyrics

    Listen to mainstream pop. Literally, every song they write today is about love. Is the whole mainstream pop scene meant to be for love?

The Newcomers
11. ?

    Labels pressure artists to perform songs they don't like

    In around 1989, Heart tried to rebel against the request to sing "All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You." Ann hated the song because of its storyline, but they were pressured by Capitol, which still wanted a specific music direction for them.

    This is one of the worst things labels have ever done to a band.

12. ?

    Fans are easily offended and judgmental if you listen to other music

The Contenders

13. Sexual songs to boost sales for terrible artists

    The audience for these albums is usually perverts.

14. Most artists use ghostwriters

    They don't give songwriters enough credit!

15. Lacks meaningful content

    The lyrical content among pop songs almost unanimously consists of stupid and meaningless problems. I remember a time when songs were written about really crucial and real issues.

    Ninety-nine percent of pop music revolves around a rudimentary, high school agenda, almost always about puppy love and childish relationships.

    Yeah, like love is so important.

16. Use of stuttering and repetitive phrases in basic choruses

17. Horrible beats

    I want epic drops, but no. It's either no drop and a stupid repetitive beat or a mediocre and predictable drop!

    Just simple. No bass drops or anything.

18. Artists don't play instruments

    The laptop/PC/Mac has been a blessing and a curse to the music industry. The blessing is that it allows an artist with real talent and musicianship to work faster. The curse is that it has allowed artists with virtually no talent to program music via software.

    Now all the new pop music sounds the same, especially rap/hip-hop, which was better when producers used samples.

    Because they don't learn how to.

19. Overrated

20. Use of profanity

    There are plenty of metal songs that have cussing too.

21. Focuses on boys and girls

22. Majority of songs are about love

    This should be first. Every pop singer of today is whining about love in almost every song of theirs. Love this, love that. Why can't they write about something else?

23. Repetitive lyrics

24. Negative talk about the genre

25. More popular than other genres

    If people want to make this crap, then I don't care. But when people choose to listen to unoriginal pop by bands who've never written a song and have the arrogance to judge your music taste? That's what I can't stand.

26. Primarily appeals to girls

    It does make a little sense that this was marketed to girls, but there are some boys that like it too.

    And I'm a girl, but I hate pop music.

27. Artists are often unpleasant