Y’know, I often see my older friends complaining on Facebook about modern music. People love posting pictures that will compare lyrics to some “classic” song and to the lyrics in some current hit, and use that as proof that music is supposedly less creative now that it was “back in the day.” And “back in the day” is usually whenever the person posting the image was a child or teenager. Because of the age-range of my online friends, I often see people comparing modern hits to songs from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.

But it’s never a fair comparison, because they always cherry-pick and take a song that is unarguably amazing and put it up against some average song, as if to suggest that the amazing classic track represents all music of it’s era. But classics become classics specifically because they stand out from the rest of the music…