I agree with your assessment AZ if you consider the whole (c)rap scene as a brake peddle on decency. In my view the crap stuff was a result of the removal of regular music tutorial from the public school system.

I was in the public school system from 1960 through 1972 and for the first *9 years* the students were exposed to music learning in one form or another.

When a child learns at an early age the proper method, regardless of genre, of a thing the foundation will have been laid for further learning and/or tolerance. IOW, the people that are attracted to crap are so because there is a vacuum created by no proper foundation. If you understand music, things that are not music, will seem alien to you. And vice versa.

Grades 7, 8 and 9, were at Fort Myers Junior High and they had a stand alone building called a Choral Room and EVERY student attended a 1 hour class there every day for all 3 years. A modern, 9 sided, concrete/stucco building with tiered seating around 3/4 of the interior. And yes, there was many instances of individuals standing up and singing. The classes spanned music in the US from the 18th century all the way up to current stuff heard on the radio. In my lights in looking back it was a very well rounded education in music. And that was just the vocal part. At age 8 all of the students were encouraged to learn to play an instrument and I chose the trumpet. At age 10 I changed to piano, then at age 11 I changed to guitar. All of the students at my elementary school did similar.

By the 1980’s when crap was peeking it’s durty head out from under the mud hut we were already familiar with the “beat” because we were exposed to National Geographic films in school that portrayed the primitives in the lesser places on the globe gyrating and gesticulating wildly in feathers and mud with bones in their noses around the fires animalistically.

THAT isn’t music.
But in the absence of proper teaching a nitwit can be compelled into believing it is. Once again, we see an example of everything the gov’t touches turns to shit. The public school system. It started out with good intentions in the 19th century and 100 years later it has morphed into something else. They took something beautiful, like music, and turned it into something more like a criminal development. Look at any aspect of life in the US and you will see the same thing. Everything the US gov’t has forced itself into here and around the world has been a complete and total disaster. From the top down governing on a grand scale has never worked and never will. Properly educated people know this. Ignorant plebes do not.