Matt Walsh

He's the guy that purchased the baby and has been emotionally abusing the child on social media for clicks.

So this is a

An atrocious joke of a list for a bunch of reasons, starting with the fact that it almost completely leaves out modern American folk and Americana, which are actually vibrant and eclectic genres still today, where most of the best songwriting is being done right now, and it has been done historically.

It's mostly just pop and rap and that sort of thing.

To the extent that they have any rock musicians at all, it feels like a hedge.

They're all from the 1970s.

This is what's promoted now in every major venue.

This is what young people are seeing.

It's no wonder they don't want any part of it.

The same is true with the Super Bowl halftime shows.

There hasn't been a rock band featured this decade at all.

Last one was Maroon 5, which was more pop than rock.

That was in 2019.

And ever since Jay-Z took over the Super Bowl halftime show, they've barely had any white people on stage at all.

Other than Eminem, they haven't had any white headliners.

Now, to be clear, my intention is not to complain that good music doesn't exist anymore or that good rock music can never exist again.

Maybe it can.

And there is good music being made.

But the fact remains that the popular genres have all been urbanized and dumbed down and they've all kind of fused together.

And music critics are cowards who think that if they're listing top living songwriters, then two thirds of the list have to be black people.