Music, like all forms of art, changes with time. That’s exactly why music today doesn’t sound like music from yesterday – it’s ever changing and it’s going to keep changing and readjusting to reflect the culture. Hate it or love it.
I get your argument but I dont see the merit – I think a lot of modern music is good just the same as I think a lot of classical music is good. You dont have to like modern “auto-tunes” – simply, you prefer music without. That’s just pop culture and you’re certainly welcome to take it or leave it.
I think singing is really objective – an amazing singer to someone might be a terrible singer to someone else. Just because a particular artist doesn’t sing the way you’d like them to, doesn’t mean that the thousands and even millions of fans are in agreement with you.
The only place I come in somewhat agreement with you is on the fact that “video killed the radio star” – music nowadays is usually associated with an image and people who want to emulate that image flock to the corresponding music as some sort of a social statement about themselves. I’m not a “genre loyal” music fan – I literately love music of all genre’s and even if I may not like or be a fan of much country music, I at least appreciate the fact that it exists. Would Lady Gaga really be Lady Gaga if you took away her outrageous, jaw-dropping get-up? Probably not.