[toyg]

> it's quite reasonable to take a position that there was more innovation and creativity in pop music in 1950-2000.

A lot of people said the same in 1990, except their cutoff was 1980. All that synth is just rubbish, man, what about Led Zeppelin, that was new! Except they were just raiding blues and laying some electric guitar on top, of course, so really the cutoff is 1960; but to be honest them bluesmen were just recording stuff that had been sung in the cotton fields forever, so really the cutoff is the beginning of the slave trade; but really those melodies were just brought all the way from Africa, so really... etc etc etc

[throwawayfire]

I think this essentially agrees with my point (that there was more creativity in the broad space of 'pop music' when pop music was a newer phenomenon).

I appreciate the reminder that a lot of pop music has a longer history as it developed from Black music styles. Thanks.