We have a restaurant chain here in Canada called "Boston Pizza" which plays a terrible satellite station which has a mix of new pop and country, plus the occasional older pop (not usually anything too good at all but sometimes a relief) and there is so much reason for someone to complain about it. Oddly enough, one of the new country-sounding songs (I have no idea who the female singer is) is a complete rip off of the chorus of "Eye in the Sky" from Alan Parsons Project and as a result is actually not all that bad of a song even if it's totally unoriginal. We live in an age of total corporate control of music (when it comes to the mainstream)
Most if not all of it is intolerably bad. Who was it that mentioned Nickelback and new Country being pretty much the same and attracting the same fans? That's right, they are the same uncreative garbage although the vocals are worse in Nickelback. Back in the 1980s it would have been unimaginable to me that music this mechanical and bland would be what popular music would become. And the 1980s weren't even that great! But at least there were real bands, real writers, real musicians out there being signed to major labels---even bands that I disliked at the time like New Order seem good to me compared to today's stuff. The 1970s of course were incredible for the most part, but I think we all know that.
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