Hardnecker
Senior Member
They'll do Christine Thirteen. Perfect!
You're looking at the new bargain artists and ignoring the new lifers, while emphasizing the old lifers over the old bargain artists. 98 Degree may not have endured, but look at Britney Spears and Beyonce. I sure as heck know late-20-somethings who still bump that music just like anyone bumps McCartney.
Rest assured that 00s and 10s music, just like every generation in the history of music, will have throwaway artists and pantheon artists whom people your age will continue heralding as the "true, good pop" until the day they die. That's how it works, it's simply inevitable.
And I know plenty of 45 year olds who are still crushing on Paul McCartney.