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user-inactivated · 2840 days ago · link · · parent · post: An essay on the great songwriters of pop music, and why there aren't any new ones
Most of the names he lists wrote songs I find annoying at best. I think his definition of a good song fails in being too universal, and his not finding great songwriters after the 90s corresponds to mass culture loosing out to smaller communities, so that we aren't all listening to the same songs and a particular sound doesn't define the times for everyone the way it did when you got whatever was on the radio or the shelves in the record store.