This is a thing I have decidedly complained about. Every city event here is a Beatles cover band. I feel like my generation never even got a moment in the sun. Could they imagine being forced to listen to In the Mood for 50 years at every public event they ever attended until every last member of that generation died?

I mean, look at artists like Kaytranada and AG Cook and Doechii and Kendrick Lamar and Doja Cat, among dozens of incredible musicians producing and performing original music in the electronic, hip hop and house music categories, and it's hard to conclude that "mainstream music composition" is "stagnating".

There's hyperpop, afrobeat/amapiano, reggaeton, k-pop (and t-pop/v-pop), the return of 2-step/jungle, and the growing number of artists blending all of them.

Oh, very good.