Why is mainstream music so bad?

I think it's bad because it's repetitive and its lyrics are just nonsense (and I don't wanna talk about the videos they make for mainstream trash) Honestly I got tired of this music too so I decided to look for better options because quitting music is not the idea, but getting something good for my ears... Have you tried They have a ton of independent music and seem to focus almost entirely on artists that are not in the mainstream.

My favorite band put out a new album in September and with it came a sort of mission statement to the fans and the street team. The album was called Wake Up the Sleepers and the statement explained the motivation behind writing the songs and behind selecting the title. One passage of this mission statement serves as a better answer to this question than I could put together on my own: [i]Since our last album, your ears have been bombarded with empty songs by empty artists that seem to keep getting more and more disposable. A new band is born every minute. They're all fighting for the same objective: your attention and your money (...)[/i] I think what sets this band and others like them apart from the here-today-gone-tomorrow, made-from-a-kit bands that are littering the radio stations is drive, excitement and passion for what they are doing. My favorite bands have been around for several years (this one in particular for 16 years), and they'd keep making music, keep playing shows, even if the record labels decided they were no longer marketable, even if it meant being pushed back underground to the dive bars of their hometowns, because, first and foremost, they love what they are doing. But the dime-a-dozen rap stars and Disney teen queens who are all over the radio stations today will play until no one wants to hear them anymore then they'll pack it in... or wait a few years then take up acting, or host a reality show. I guess, a more concise answer to the question is that mainstream music is largely produced on an assembly line with money as the primary goal, entertainment, second, and the artist's love for the art, last.

Because a majority of people have no taste. Haha but in all seriousness, there are good bands.. the problem is, there is jus so many bands that the good bands get lost in the mix and in a LOT of cases that means they don't have the funding to carry on.

Because people have been programmed to accept bs music and like it. Just turn on your radio thats all the evidence you need.

It's not that mainstream music is bad, but that there are many pre-made bands, also known as radio-formula. For the music industry is well known what the majority of the crowd will demand, so often they will just create band acording to their tastes as a product of merchandising, and this kind of bands always turn mainstream. That makes it hard for real bands to survive, so that's the reason for many of us for not to be too fond of mainstream bands. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy some of them, but it's true that I like very little bands of that kind.