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There's a pretty strong argument to be made that pop music has declined in quality a great deal, due to commercial pressures... The drive to more efficiently commodify it over decades has resulted in demonstrably simpler and more generic stuff dominating the charts, and then there's also the fact that the video which goes with it tends ever more to sell the song (consider the difference in accessibility between MTV and YouTube). Folks also tend to listen to music via some relatively crappy speakers these days, with poor to nonexistent channel separation and no bass.
Music per se is totally in a position to be better than ever, but the good stuff is increasingly unlikely to be the most popular stuff.
Kimmo
Come and say that to my fourteen year old. She'll tear you a new one.