prettiestPony wrote:I mean, it's basically the same situation as with the actual pop world: there's no creativity, everything's a formulaic piece of uninspired crud that panders to the masses (and to making money), it's all the same damn four chords, pop music is getting louder, simpler and more repetitive, whatever happened to real music, I'm worried about this generation's musical tastes, etc., etc. Well, whatever. There are still other musicians producing different music, and there always will be (unless perhaps the human race experiences a severe drop in population, in which case we'd just have to wait for it to build up to a reasonable number again, and in the meantime we'd have more important things to worry about, like surviving). Listen to what you like, don't listen to what you don't like.
This.
Also, one of my biggest pet peeves is brought up here: the idea that 'oh god my generation's music tastes suck'.
News flash: Pop music has always been this shitty. The only difference between the present and past is that the past has history to filter out the shitty stuff. And hell, if we're going to make bigger claims, I'd rather go with the pop music of today than the pop music of, say, the 60's or 70's. [And I won't pretend I don't listen to any modern pop ^_^]
Anyways, yeah, if you don't like all that brony 'pop' then ignore it. That simple. The fact that pony rock anthem got so popular pissed me off to no end (and then it was voted track of the month and I flipped my table), but I just ignored it. Ignoring things does wonders, you know.