[yowlingcat]

> or maybe i'm just getting old and cranky.

I think there's an additional dimension to it, which is the songwriting and composition itself. The lo-fi hip hop flavor that you note is part of the production style. However, you could just as easily produce a song with a different style and it will still be the same song.

Perhaps what you are irritated by is that there's no substance to the song underneath the style. That seems to be pretty common with pop music today, sadly. But while that is true, it was equally true one, or, two, or three decades ago.