From songs like the notorious “Gucci Gang” and the repetitive “Thunder,” music has slowly been losing its depth. As Trevon Dunn once claimed: “Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.” However, to claim that all music lacks depth and only cares about consumerism, is rather generalized opinion considering there is an incredible amount of songs that are filled with emotion and meaning that are still consumed just as eagerly as ones thats aren’t.
Sure, in today's music there are a lot of songs that are hard to comprehend and make clearity w [ with lyrics being hard to understand and lack clarity to talking about repetitive and topics that are considered vulgar such as sex, drugs, and alcohol with generic computer-generated beats that make up the song]. For example, Lil Pump’s “Gucci Gang” is quite
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Music is one's escape to reality; whether they like to listen to EDM to dance off their worries, sad songs to wallow in self pity, or upbeat pop songs to make themselves feel happier; it's all up to them. I think we tend to forget that not everyone is going to like the same type of music that we do and not everyone is going to have the same opinions as you. To generalize pop culture , more specifically music in this case, is a bit of a stretch . There may be bad songs with horrible lyrics and just bad everything but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any good songs out there. There will always be good songs and there will always be bad songs. Even as some music slowly begin losing its depth , there still will be songs that will provoke the mind and are well made. There’s a good and bad in everything. There are good youtubers, there are bad youtubers, there are good fashion trends and then there are horrible fashion trends, there’s nothing in between. So why should we continue to condemn music and other forms of popular culture when its much complicated than we think it is