Worked in the music industry for a decade doing mash up of everything (label, promotion, festivals, event organization etc).
Modern pop music is an entirely commercial product basically tuned to the tastes of YAAASSSS girls, blacks and gays. Women in general, have fucking TERRIBLE taste in music becaue the way women consume music is for the most part, completely different from men. Women consume "social experiences" and music is seen for the most part by the average woman, as a social experience or event. You don't actually like Taylor Swift because she's a great lyricist or musician, you like Taylor Swift because all your friends and everyone else likes Taylor Swift, you follow Tay Tay's drama, you follow all the boys she dates, you goss with your friends, you all go "YAAAAAAASSS I LOVE THIS SONG WOOOO" when shake it off is played at a party.
Women are the primary consumer of pop music, pop music is aimed at women. In the industry we had a slogan "play to the women" and "don't scare off the women" which was a nice way of saying "play simple, poppy catchy/melodramatic bullshit, if you drop something complex and deep, they will run".
There is a theory that the reason men are so much better than chess, comes from the fact guys kind of become "idiot savant's" when they focus, all parts of the brain sort of hyper-lock onto a topic where men need to learn everything about it, hence why even Normie retard guys at work somehow know the dick size, masturbation stroke rate, average cum weight of each player of an entire football team, that same idiot savant plays a role in music, men will usually "deep dive" into at least one genre and find pretty complex stuff that they get very "autistic" about, your average normie guy probably has some very out of left field band or genre they know everything about, this simply is not the case with women.
I can back this up with facts as well, women now dominate music consumerism by a large margin, and music charts have never, ever been as shallow and dominated by single styles of music/genres as they are now. Go back to even late 1990s when men dominated charts, and the charts were waaaay more varied and had far better music.
Another is that black people have 10000x the social cache among mainstream youth audiences than white people. I've watched genres go from "white nerd shit" to instantly, overnight, being the big trend the moment a "influential" black artist takes a stab at it and is labeled a fucking genius revolutionary for producing the most basic bitch version of that music. Behind almost all actually really revolutionary, complex music, there is some autistic white male chinless nerd sitting in a fucking studio day in and day out, honestly, behind almost all fucking pop music there is a autistic white male chinless nerd sitting in a studio day in and out. For whatever reason, Black people used to have super varied tastes in music. Go back to even the 80s and black music was spread across tonnes of various genres, but now it's mostly has to be Hip Hop/RnB or "GAY", genres that were the domain of chinstroking white nerds are now the genres of gay black and YAASS GIRLS I LOVE THIS ITS SO URBAN AND UNDERGROUND women, while for some reason, the average guy will just like something because black people are listening to it now.
So yes, unironically, trends in the industry became dominated by women with shit taste and black people with massive ingroup biases who still mostly only listen to 2 black dominated genres.
Yes, this all sounds racist and sexist. But after watching this shit for over a decade, day in and out, from inside the industry, and seeing how the industry functions, it really is the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIGSXdj-gj0 - This comedic video by two producers was a pretty popular one doing the rounds among us in the industry back when it released, because it's pretty fucking accurate. Just make the two MC's black and give them face tattoos for literally the entire industry Zoomers grew up with.