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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
This was back when I was a kid, so my memory's a little fuzzy, but the 90's had stuff like Ace of Base, 2 Unlimited, (the group that sang Mr. Vain, don't remember what they're called), etc, which are the equivalent to all your dance pop songs today. I think your memory of the 90's and how it had so much good rock songs is a little clouded by you filtering out only the good songs and forgetting the garbage.
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Once again, I think this is making my point for me. Yes you had crap like Ace of Base, but you could also hear songs like No Rain, Black Hole Sun, Plush on top-40 radio, because they actually made the top-40. Now those songs could never, ever approach top-40 status. I mean Nine Inch Nails has a top-20 song...that could never happen now. Basically where in the 90's the crap to quality quotient was something like 70%-30%, its up to 95%-5% now. Thats a substantially increase in awful and a major decrease in good.
And the crap in the 90's versus the crap now? Give me the Backstreet Boys, Ace of Base, Mariah and N'Sync over Bieber, Big Time Rush, Katy Perry and Carly Rae Jespen every single day of the week, twice on Sunday.