R.I.P. To Good Music

Good music has died. Yes, I said it; music has died a horrible death because it seems like everybody and their mama is putting out garbage. Artists don't care nothing about the quality of music, they're about the almighty dollar. I understand artists have to make money (which is fine) but at least put out halfway decent music. Nobody wants to hear the same formula: Cars, clothes & strip clubs. Too many artists sound like the next guy so one can safely assume that each artist is a cookie cutter of the next. It's no originality in music anymore and that's why other than Jennifer Hudson and Jill Scott, I don't listen to too many contemporary artists. I'm old-school soul & R&B all the way. Bobby Womack, Al Green, Four Tops, Curtis Mayfield and many others put it down back in the day. They were TRUE musicians because they sang from the depths of their soul. There were no autotunes, voiceovers and protune synthesizers like today's music. Today, all you need is a catchy hook & great beat and you can easily go 2x platinum with the right promotion. Back in the day, you had to rely on talent to become successful. Even if an old-school artist didn't write their song, they sure sung like they did! Old-school artists wrote and produced their own music because they had THEIR vision for what the album was going to be like. Today's artists have ghostwriters and producers who dictate their album for them. The artist has very little input on the album because record execs have to make money. They are financially backing the artist so I guess they can dictate the kind of material an artist puts out. I can drop a nonsense album & it would go 5x platinum & more because I would have great beats & hooks even though I have elementary lyrics. Old-school soul & R&B artists have much more talent than many artists today. Today's music has become watered down to where I don't listen to any contemporary music, even if it may be good. I've always been into the old-school greats, it's just recently I've started getting back into old-school music because you get tired of watered-down mainstream music that you want to hear quality music. You can tell an artist is passionate about his craft when he hits those high notes just right, has a soulful, raspy kind of voice (K-Ci is a good example). They just don't make good music like the old-school kind anymore.