I have not read all of this so pardon me if I missed something important. You use Bob Dylan to illustrate good songwriters of a past era and rightly so. The truth is though that there were thousands of terrible songs written back then (Bob wrote some of them) but the ones you mention are the survivors of 40-45 years of natural selection. You don't remember the crappy ones that became one hit wonders in the sixties (Snoopy vs the Red Baron comes to mind).

The songwriters of today that you mention may not be the survivors 45 years from now - but there are plenty of good songs being written today that will survive 45 years (assuming that humans still have ears in 45 years).

What I am saying is that the bad songs of yesteryear have been filtered out while the bad songs of today are on the radio along with the good ones.

Colin

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