Yes and no. The problem current artists run into is coming up with something new. Disco, Hip Hop, Punk and even post-Punk were fresh and new then...but those so

Yes and no. The problem current artists run into is coming up with something new. Disco, Hip Hop, Punk and even post-Punk were fresh and new then...but those sounds live on to this day in "new" artists. It's entertaining, but it's hardly something to get excited about. It's not a matter of getting old per se. It's a matter of having more context, more perspective. Yes, there's a lot of good music today. However, so much of it relies on what we've heard before, it rarely qualifies as great. Or, at best, great is relative to the current, which often is average at best. Do I want to listen to (e.g.) New Order, or a knock-off of New Order?