In reply to CzarM.

The general public doesn't care about the so-called pop stars of today because most of them are ALL image, but with very little obvious talent and charm/star quality. That's why their singles are selling 9 million copies, while the parent albums struggle to go platinum.

Nowadays the songs are bigger than the artists themselves and could be recorded by anybody and have basically the same results. There's no difference between Rihanna and Katy and Gaga and Bieber and 1D and Kesha and Miley and Flo Rida and Pitbull. They're interchangeable with each other and grab random songs to sing from the same Rolodex.

I'm sure everyone feels that the music and acts that were popular from the time they were 12 to about 24 is the best, but this isn't a case of me as a 30-something snubbing the up and coming generations pop culture...overall, today's pop stars are indeed inferior to the pop stars of the 80's, 90's and early-mid 00's, and the comparative facts prove it.

There are no more singing superstars causing earth shattering pandemonium with their music and celebrity status. Now everybody is sort of scrambling to be on the high end of grade "C" while pretending that silly "victories" like most YouTube views and Twitter followers actually mean something.