"Why modern music is awful ?" Do you agree ?

Tiresome. 

Today's music is not yesterday's.  Tastes evolve.  Beatles fans generally tired of Guy Lombardo.  Guy Lombardo fans grew tired of the Andrews Sisters.... and what about Stephen Foster?  We're so way far down the Suwanee River, that it's literally water under the bridge - but it is the only one of his songs that anyone now remembers.

What about 1967, when Sgt Pepper's was so important, as this reviewer reminds us?  The TOP singles on the Billboard Charts included:

I'm a Believer (The Monkees)
Kind of a Drag (The Buckinghams)
Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones)
Love is Here and Now You're Gone (The Supremes)
Penny Lane (The Beatles)
Happy Together (The Turtles)
Somethin' Stupid (Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra)

...and that's just the first four months.    Don't forget other classic hits from later that year such as Windy (The Association), The Letter (The Box Tops), To Sir With Love (LuLu), and Incense And Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock), along with some better known hits from The Doors, Aretha Franklin, and the Young Rascals.  And this is just the very very TOP of the Billboard Chart for the weeks of that year - we are completely ignoring the hits that came in #2, #3, ... well, you get the picture.  Fabulous music, all.  Right?  Way better than bad modern pop like Adele, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, Shawn Mendes, Lady Gaga, etc. (Hint of sarcasm should be evident)

I am convinced that every generation, as it ages, is convinced that THEIR music was better only because history (as well as their memory) filters out the bad stuff - no one remembers it.  Sure, I too love Sgt. Pepper's - I too have a thing for that Lovely Rita Meter Maid.  But if you forced me to listen to The Monkees, LuLu, and The Box Tops all day I would surely go mad.

Dumb argument.  In the days of Mozart and Hayden I am sure that there was a lot of truly dreadful music written that history has [thankfully] forgotten.

- David

P.S.  If you want to see a nice discussion of how even modern music has complex chord structures, check out this lecture by Aimee Nolte on why "Remember Me", the simple-sounding theme from Disney's Coco, is masterfully crafted (and won the Oscar this year):

https://www.aimeenolte.com/teaching-mus...-for-music

And architecture - glass and concrete high-rise buildings .. such and music ..

but some modern tracks are also good ..  last Jon Hopkins for example

Time will filter out the best musical samples from our gap.