Are you using an octaver in most of them?

11:18 nobody in the world knows what they're saying

hate to say it, but mayb we are too old for it?

Rick , how can you stand even wasting your time on this ? Life is short - let's ignore the trash.

I'm 67 and listen to 60's, 70's, 80's. This stuff doesn't do it for me.

Every single one of these songs was so boring. The kind of indistinguishable junk you hear while trying on some jeans at American Eagle.

We're still not done with autotune? S**t was completely played out 10 years ago and yet the industry continues beating us over the head with it.

I've listened to a few of Taylor's albums, and they are not for me. I respect her as a singer and songwriter, but I think most of her stuff is disingenuous and preys on the insecurities of her supporter base. She's in her 30s now and still singing about stuff from her teen

No trap beats. At least that’s some progress.

Hozier Too Sweet sounds like Jackson's Beat It (towards the end).

“Buy another jet” 😂 It’s so true though! Her music is all this “oh woe is me” crap, over, and over, and over again. But, I guess being a perpetual victim (even when you’re rich) is what sells these days.

I love this guy because he actually plays and is a musical producer and knows about music what I don't like is so-called music critics who can't play a note are professional music critics that make money at it but the only thing they can talk about are the lyrics

One of the best intro ever!

the young folks making this music are reflecting their parents' 80's tastes. Even if high school sucked, we still like the music :)

This song sends shivers to my heart and makes me nostalgic for life in general

Awesome

Rick as always good stuff!! Can you try to react some Opeth songs? Definitely not predictable haha

You won't really get much good music looking at the top of the mainstream. The gems hides underground.

You got me again. The headline makes it sound like you’re going to rip all the songs, but then it’s mostly positive comments. I know you said it was not interesting (see I watched the whole thing), but there wasn’t anything that would make me want to hear more.

Paul was a monster on this album. RIP. What a loss.

It’s music, let’s not hate on it all

34 and still going on about teenage heartbreak. Move on Taylor!

I wish this video were an hour long.

I don’t even like PJ that much but this, their best song, is undeniable.

This generation's music sucketh.

@Rick.....You really missed Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin.....

Unfortunately am not a robot i can't relate, its sound more like a robot dreams come true.

Love how you call them out for the repetition and predictability. Some of these songs have the potential to be great, and they are catchy, but that repetition keeps them as a passing flavor of the day.

Time to interview the OGs TFF then hehe

So people got bored of the hip-hop influence and they think the next best thing is 80's vibe. Literally just taking anything that worked in the past and making a half-assed rehash. Music industry is dead.

My native language is spanish, and I don't have a clue what that reggaeton song is about, it's just sounds mumbling to me. Taylor Swift does some of the most predictable songs I ever heard, all sound the same but with different touches in the production. I don't know how she manages to be so successful.

"Taylor has the opportunity to do something really new and cool, and she does this, and I don't know what this is" (paraphrased) ... I couldn't agree more

Wake Up World. The Warning is bring Rock back to Dominance. This Pop crap doesn’t do anything for me. Give me a great Live Act any day.

I work in a place that is extremely diverse. I am a 56 year old white male with red hair and freckles. I am well into the minority. Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Nigerian, Creole Haitian, Mexican, they're all represented in large numbers. We have to post important information signs in seven languages. So I can hear what music they're listening to when it's break or lunch. I would estimate 80% is unbearable tripe. K-Pop, things like Baby Metal, awful. It sounds like someone with a Casiotone M10 from the 80's, a heavily autotuned high pitch voice over an 80's MIDI drum machine. No complexity, no structure, just tripe. I don't possess the words to describe it. Some of it is very specific to ancient cultural music, like the African tribal traditional music, which is cool, I am not talking about that. I am referring to the young Asians and the K-Pop thing. Depressing to see what it's becoming.

This is what happens when corporations use algorithms and AI and computers to make music.

All sappy crap. Throw any STP song in this list and you'll hear something creative.

One of my favorite songs of the 80s....80s has a magical sound of all time very melodic harmonic sentimental that is music for me. That's why is catchy. ❤️🎹🎵🎶🎵🎸🎶🎵🙂👌👌

Taylor Swift's lyrics are so weak and lazy.

"Musicians: What if most people are harmonically deaf?" Use the quotes.

Everything these days is just a rip off of a rip off of a rip off, etc., etc.

Meandering mall clothing store music.

Every one of these songs needs a Dirty Loops re-harmonization.

100% with you…. My drummer brother and i…listen the Italian top 10 …..yes…. Is this even music? Horrible lirics Horrible beats….. The melody is lost There is no trace of harmony Note that I love industrial music Free jazz…/ no wave and atonality in general

I have watched alot of interviews that Brent talks about LAW because of 20 year anniversary. He gives you and all people that worked on the album credit & gives a shout out to your UKposts page telling people to go watch your channel. He still has alot respect for you.

Check out Half Life by DJO from the same album...One of my favorite and most interesting songs in the modern era - Definitely creative and not predictable

I knew Rick was gonna like the new Ariana song! Great melody and performance

Thank you for your comment on Fortnight. It is low-energy and boring as sin. Everyone's entitled to a miss now and then, but that song is only good for insomniacs.

Ok. I'm an old guy and remember all sorts of great music from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. So I have to ask this question. Is this the best the present-day music artists can do?

That Hozier song is the best song of the year, so far. I hope it wins all the awards.

Its funny how all other songs get judged by song quality but the second Taylor comes on she gets judged by her personal life.