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There's some really good stuff out there, and I'll go so far as to say the past 10 years have been better than what came before.
But it's really pop music and radio that continually hit new lows. Like with movies, it's become more a matter of rehashing what sells and succeeded as opposed to trying to make something great. We're just now getting into that lucky moment where corporate media has poisoned itself and is letting unprofitable radio stations go, something akin to a pig choking on a toad.
On the flip side, you have projects like Sound and Fury by Sturgill Simpson. The whole concept album is a big winner, but Sony's marketing had no clue what to do with it (Is it country? Is it rock? Is it pop?). Further confounding Sony was that Simpson didn't really want them involved, creating Sound and Fury as an artistic experiment rather than something traditionally monetized. The album and Netflix animated special succeeded, but primarily because Simpson hit his objectives and got it into the black, not because of charts/sales/marketing.
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