A formerly unpopular teenage girl calling herself King... There's certainly a song in there somewhere!

I agree KingB, perhaps the poor navel gazing songs occur when the writer is being a little too self centered, not seeing the bigger picture, looking in there and seeing nothing but themselves. I also agree that it can occur in any gendre. Maybe there are just good songs and bad songs and the type of song is not as important as the content.

Songs that don't communicate.. Are just poorly written songs.