If you ask me, over the last few years it's actually getting better. Of course, music taste is entirely subjective. A medieval peasant would say that Beethoven

If you ask me, over the last few years it's actually getting better. Of course, music taste is entirely subjective. A medieval peasant would say that Beethoven and Mozart are unlistenable trash, and you won't find many fanatical lute listeners these days. But when I look back, my opinion is that the average mainstream radio music was worse around 2016-2019 than it is now. Back then, hiphop was ubiquitous and even a lot of pop songs would have hiphop elements in them. It was overplayed. It was like rock in the 2000s, everywhere and same-ish. Now that seems to have died down and mainstream music sounds more diverse, which it will be until the next trend comes around.