The Bothersome Modern Music

...If you can even call it that.

Simply put, I love music; it is one of my few hobbies.  I'm a huge music geek, not in my music history knowledge but more in my music theory knowledge.  I have knowledge about how music works, chord structures, discerning original pieces of music from the generic ones, etc... A problem with this is that while listening to any song, I pay more attention to the musical/instrumental aspects rather than lyrics.  I have perfect pitch (meaning I know what every note, key signature, and most chords sound like), so I like listening to music that does not have a predictable chord progression.  I also cannot listen to music in which the lyricist is flat or sharp; it clashes with my model of the note in my head, which is quite an unpleasant feeling.  So, can you guess why modern music is bothersome to me? (When I say modern music, I mean the artists in the top charts like Lil' Wayne, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Eminem, Coldplay, etc.)

Almost all of this modern music consists of one of these elements that I really don't like.  All rap in general bothers me.  Okay, it's poetry, which can be substantial, but I can't call it music when the same beat is being played over and over again and the "lyricist" is talking rather than singing pitches.  And since I don't listen to lyrics too much, it can be repetitive and boring for me.  People like Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber, on the other hand, actually sing, which is nice.  However, their music is so recycled; it surprises me that most people even with no musical background cannot see that.  All of their songs sound the same to me, just a four-chord cliche.  I feel musically stupid listening to music like that.  Coldplay is a bit different.  I sincerely enjoyed their earlier stuff, and I even liked most of Viva La Vida.  However, with Mylo Xyoto they're straying in a path similar to Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber; their songs are more cliche.  To boot, Chris Martin's voice can be irritatingly sharp sometimes; I can't even listen to The Scientist because of his sharpness.  I feel like modern music in general is moving in the wrong direction.

Anyway, I just hope there are some people out there that have the same opinion as I do about the music of today.  This sounds ridiculous, but I sometimes feel detached from most people because of my opposing views to today's popular music.  It would be good to know if somebody sympathized with me so they understand my pain.