A Timeline

Since I've been commenting on the horrors of young pop stars and their incompetence in terms of music, I thought we should do a comparison.

Here's Justin Bieber. If you have to listen to it, only listen to a few seconds worth. As long as you listen long enough to note the amount of Autotune employed. (It's disgusting. Almost as bad as Rebecca Black.)



Now, we're going to go back in time to the 90s.



The difference between Autotune and non-Autotune ALMOST makes Aaron Carter sound legit. Almost.

Let's go back even further.



Definitely legit! Are we seeing a trend yet?

And...even further.



This is a pretty simple piece until you realize that Mozart wrote it at age 8.



I think it's safe to say that musical taste has disintegrated over the course of time. If that's not a strong argument for the legitimacy of classical music, I'm not sure what is.