The real reason you can’t enjoy modern pop music

I was waiting for it and, of course, it came: "Now, I quite like some of these songs." Well, I quite don't. They are boring, tedious, crass, uninteresting, written for commerce and not written from the heart etc.

It's not about modes. Today's productions have no soul, spirit. They're only products to be consumed.

Today`s music is greater and better than it has ever been,regardless what vague statistics want to tell you!

Nursery rhymes for minds that never mature.
"Interesting song" is a question of how enduring a song is.
How many songs will be played be subsequent generations?

When a chord progression starts on the major IV, how do you determine it’s “in a minor key”?

Interesting video. I guess music technology has made he song writer's craft redundant.

The harmony is part of the problem for sure but I think it has more to do with a lack of melody and soulfulness…A lot of pop songs these days are not really songs in the traditional sense…They aren't written the way songs of the past were written… where someone sits at a piano or plays a guitar and comes up with chord sequences and riffs… Then they or the lyricist will write a melody to go along with the music …Then the musicians get together and work up an arrangement then record the song…Most pop songs today are based around "beats" that so called producers "make"…Sometimes multiple producers…that's why songs today can have over a dozen songwriters… And the vocal tracks are really just improvised phrases and chants that the singers put on top of the "beats"… Nobody ever really writes or performs the song …The song is "made"…In fact you will see young people on YouTube talking about the new song they just "made"…They don't even say they wrote a song…They say they made a song…Justin Bieber performed for 250,000 at Cochella without a band
…He stood there with a laptop and played the "songs" from it…So there ya go …

why is this a problem

Very interesting. I do wish I'd picked up some music theory somewhere. I'll add this, that like many I watch a lot of these song "reaction" videos, a big theme of which is younger reviewers discovering (!?) old songs. And as soon as there's any kind of key or time or instrument change their faces light up and they say, "I didn't see that coming!". And I guess you sort of explained why a younger listener might react that way.

That little demo of Wichita Lineman made me cry….🙏🏻

Here’s the thing: pop music does suck now. It’s a commercial product manufactured by teams of people to maximize profit, for people who look for a series of hits to listen to. That was also true before the 50s. Look at what topped the charts before the Beatles. We accept it now because we’re boiled frogs: we’ve become acclimatized gradually to a poorer and poorer product. Even the “groove” apologia for the current lazy garbage tracks is conditioned by this environment. It fails to recognize that the grooves of the past were sung or played over with a lot of melodic variation. See Paul’s freak out over Hey Jude, or Stevie Wonder’s over He’s Misstra Know it All. And that the groove part is itself a contrasting part to the rest of the song. Rick Beato is right: all this is garbage. Nobody will be playing Dua Lipa 40 years from now to see what it has to teach us.

I have a friend (we are older 65me 71her) she always has music going and most of the time she is listening to contemporary radio when we are driving somewhere which gets on my fucking nerves. I didn't know how to explain to her or tell her why that music actually pisses me off. So we stick to listening to channels playing rnb or throw backs. Now I understand that I'm not being an asshole, the music is frustrating to listen to. This was important for me to understand because after a life of hearing the most incredible musical song books from my parents jazz (all the greats vocally and instrumental), older brothers soul, r&b, funk, rock as well as my own through 90's hip hop and r&b. . . to now I can't stand to listen. I thought maybe I had simply gotten old and become one of those old "turn that shit off" geezers.

So IOW modern music is designed to turn off the thinking mind and induce a non-thinking trance. No wonder why stupidity is so rampant.

The real reason because I can't enjoy actual music, it's because it isn't music. Literally. Take Wikipedia and investigate what is the concept of music. Mistery solved for you. You're wellcome.

4:45 which is why these songs will often have more songwriters than they do chords 😂

James Taylor was practicing "Wichita Lineman" to add it to his setlist when he called Jimmy Webb. "Hey Jimmy, you told me this song is in F." "Yeah, it's in F." JT: "But it never goes to F." Webb: "You're right, it doesn't!"
Webb is correct – except for two chords in the intro, after Carol Kaye's descending bassline, there's not a single F chord in the whole song. So no, it DOESN'T resolve, because the singer is "still there on the line". Brilliant.

That’s a pretty cool analysis! But I have a simpler explanation: everybody just sings diatonic or even pentatonic, especially pentatonic minor. You come up with a melody that never changes keys and then you just kind of play some chords around it that gives it the feeling you like. But it’s all based around the melody, not the chords. Almost all modern music fits this pattern.