we live in depressing times, obama was a failure, brought no hope and change, people are getting more cynical, muslims keep blowing themselves up, the government is controlled by corporations, SJW's getting offended at everything, endless war.
Music has been getting mores depressing over time, there have been studies.
http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-says-music-is-way-more-depressing-now-84296
Of course pops answer to this is give us bland shit like lorde or adele.
same shallow pop music just with a different mask.
People dont enjoy music they only participate in it, why is edm so popular now, because people want to go to festivals and do drugs and hear the same song over and over again.
or at the movies its the same movie over and over again, remakes, based on a comic book part 8.
People are scared and want to be fed shit.
we are caught in a stasis of nostalgia and mediocrity.
what has rap done, odd future, just horrocore on skateboards, kendrick lamar, just old school west coast hip hop again, nothing new is happening.
Personally i would like to see rock come back since its pretty much become the kid on the back of the milk carton of musical genres