There's some bloody good pop music around at the moment! There's also some bloody awful. As duelling bouzoukis says, there always were both. The rubbish does seem more rubbishy than it used to be but perhaps that is age (me, I mean) I've bought more 'pop' music in the last year or two than I have done for ages.

Music, like all art, is a matter for personal preference anyway. I don't know how you can say that any music is 'good' or 'bad'