What happened to music?

[Maniac Craniac]

Singers in the 80s on pop stations sang about inappropriate and immoral things but they were more subtle. Frankie says relax! That song is full of suggestive lyrics.

True, but I will counter with three points.

1) The 80's weren't really that long ago. I know a lot of the people on this board weren't alive back then, but it is still very recent history and one could talk about much of 80's music in the same vain as that of today.

2) Today's music is worse than that of the 80's. That's the main message of this thread. Sure, you can find plenty of examples of "bad" songs produced back then, just as you can find plenty of "good" songs that are produced today, but the proportion has significantly flopped in the opposite direction.

3) Even in the 80's, there were standards that, if broken, would have upset a whole lot of people. Today, people with standards are a dying breed just like children who think its a good idea to obey their parents are a dying bread. The very fact that parents in the 70's could think that H.R. Puffinstuf was an innocent little children's show shows me how much our culture has changed. We know the double-entendres, the symbolisms and the like because that is all we see, that is all we know, and that is all we expect.