People under the age of 20, please?

[dan]

I just wanted to know...
Does anyone out there actually listen to good music?
And what are your opinions on what makes music "good?"
Is anyone still "normal?"

It depresses me how CREATURES like Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne and Kesha are making MILLIONS by doing the one thing that's worse than nothing at all: making horrible music.
And the greatest artists of all time have been forgotten by our generation.

Up until now, each generation is proud to look back and be able to say how great their lives were as kids. "Back in the day, we had Ella Fitzgerald!" "In my day, we had Elvis and Ray Charles!" "Back in the 60s, we had the Beatles and the Stones and Jimi Hendrix" "When I was a kid, we had Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd!" "We used to always listen to Journey and Van Halen!"

And now, for pretty much the first time EVER, we'll be looked back upon as the generation with the absolute WORST music. For the first time ever, we WON'T be proud of the music we had or what life was like. Swag, YOLO, twitter, "Cash Money Billionaires"--it's disgusting! It's embarrassing!

And it's not like the decades have been constantly getting worse. The 40s, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s--each one were fantastic in their own way. And suddenly, we have the 2000s and 2010s where not only the music is awful, but society is absolutely despicable.

All that matters now is how rich people are, how much "swag" they have, how cool they are, what music they listen to, how ugly or sexy they are, how famous they turn out to be, what they ate for breakfast in the morning.

These are the people who will be running the country in 10 or 20 years.

I'm not a hipster, I'm just not ignorant enough to not realize what this decade is like. I'm embarrassed to live in it, embarrassed that people my age obey the media by listening to what SOCIETY says is good music and not what they ACTUALLY think sounds good.

That's my opinion. Thanks for reading. And please don't lie. I'll never meet you in real life. If you like Lil Wayne or LMFAO, I don't care. Just tell me WHY you like them. I bet if you REALLY think about it, you'll realize you don't actually like them for who they are, but you like them because the media tells you to.
@Reaper
But the difference between this generation, and, say, the 50s, was that all the shitty pop music is what's adored by millions of fans. Back then, people knew which music was bad and what was good.

Nowadays, if people hear a song with a REAL ACTUAL GUITAR in it (gasp! What is this sorcery?) then they say it sounds weird.