I don’t think music is getting dumbed down, just that different aspects are becoming more prioritized than others were in the past. Listen to a 100 gecs or oth

I don’t think music is getting dumbed down, just that different aspects are becoming more prioritized than others were in the past. Listen to a 100 gecs or other hyperpop song and listen to some of rhythmic motifs being used. This isn’t a fringe genre either, it’s hugely popular with gen z. It may not have key changes like a rock ballad, but it has lots of musical ideas which songwriters from the last 60 years never even had access to.