It is something I often wonder about, my lack of interest for most, if not all, 'new" music.
I somehow concluded that my lack of feeling was most likely due to me being a boomer, that somehow talent and inspiration was not what it has been or just a lack of interest in music from the younger generations leading to a very uninteresting music.
But, I am starting to think that the biggest cause might be because of the way music is produced/distributed.
It has nothing to do with the digital side of it, it is because of the way it is fed to us. As mentioned in the my OP video, so much is removed by what happens to the file on its way to our speakers/ears, that at best it is exhausting just trying to make sense of it and at worst, all the emotion is gone leaving us with nothing, as what is music if not the language of emotion?
My theory is that our musical tastes are formed during our adolescent years by whatever was playing at the time.
Recording technology, playback formats, etc. don't much matter. You heard all that stuff on AM radio, or FM or Napster or Spotify on whatever lo-fi box you could afford.
Really, it's the feeling you felt when you had your first kiss, your first joint, your first bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry, the first time you heard Led Zeppelin (yeah, I'm an old coot), the first time your parents let you go out unsupervised, your first car, etc.
There's new stuff coming out all the time that may possibly relate to you in some or all of those ways, whatever it was, even if the recordings are overproduced, synthesized, auto-tuned, written by algorithms, etc.
But some of that new stuff, even if not in your lane, is actually innovative and actually creative, and sometimes pretty good.
So I'm rambling now. I guess my point is that there's still a lot of great music being made. It may be harder to find depending on your age or preference.
And even if you can't find it, there's a whole world of great vintage music that you may have missed that you can find on streaming if you dig deep enough.