"modern pop music is bad" is such an odd argument to me. we currently live in a time where you can find pop music of any kind at the click of a button. you are no longer constrained to just what labels want you to hear on the radio.

"it's all meaningless" is just an odd argument too, one of the biggest pop albums of the year - brat by charli xcx - has pretty raw and vulnerable lyrics, so does the new billie eilish record, there are other artists like twenty one pilots who have wrote songs about heavy subjects and has their biggest hit be about it sucks to be an adult.

also, why can't we just also have fun pop songs that aren't deep? the weeknd isn't gonna win awards for deepest lyrics anytime soon but he has made some of the most infectious pop songs of the 2010s and 2020s. i don't go to dua lipa to learn the meaning of life, i go to her music to dance and have fun.

“it all sounds the same” is also weird, do you think that hozier and sabrina carpenter sound that alike? they both had big hits this year. pop music isn't one thing, it can be rock, electronic, metal (see linkin park and poppy), hip hop (see gnx by kendrick lamar), and so many more things. there's also more experimental kinds of pop music like hyperpop or psychedelic pop. if you want boundary pushing stuff from the pop world i’d recommend imaginal disk by magdalena bay or desire, i want to turn into you by caroline polachek. there's also tame impala.

pop music isn't bad, lighten up a little and have some fun.