People under the age of 20, please?

[Reaper]

You're just being whiny and annoying. This generation is no worse than any of the previous ones; they were full of shitty pop culture too and nothing has changed. If anything, music has evolved and gotten better; its diversified and grown. If you can't look past all the mainstream garbage and look only to your oldies radio stations, then you're just as bad as the people you criticize.

EDIT: No, there's no difference. There isn't even a difference between pop music today and chamber music of the past centuries. They weren't full of great composers like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven; they were full of mediocre chamber music that no one bothered to keep record of because it was so bad. Same with the 1950s and 1940s, no one remembers the pop music of the day and 20 years from now, no one will know who Justin Bieber or Lil Wayne were.

Just because a song has actual instrumentation doesn't mean that it takes any more skill to write. Do Nickelback songs take any skill? Do Greenday songs? Some of the best composers compose on computers with pre-recorded sounds.