DaveDove wrote: “Everybody knows it’s because those young whippersnappers only listen to trash and not real music. ”

Sounds rather like what our parents said back in the 1950s and ’60s.

And Frank McGrath wrote: “I just can't listen to the new stuff. Not after growing up in the ’60s.”

Well, there’s an awful lot of new stuff, and it’s been building up, year by year, ever since most of us stopped having the radio on with the current hits all day and every day.
There is good new stuff, there is bloody awful new stuff, and there is new stuff that I might never hear (or recognise).
My daughter’s choice of music for her wedding was all from The Nightmare before Christmas, played on the church piano by our neighbour’s son, who grew up with my kids and whose wife gave birth to their first child a couple of days later. I was surprised by it, and at first did not recognise it (for all that I have seen the movie several times), but I certainly recognised the tune played as we walked out of the church.
Is all my daughter’s music good? By no means. But she often surprises me pleasantly with her choices.

When I am in my car I listen to one of two radio stations:
1. A local station that broadcasts mostly the hits of about 20 years ago. Not marvellous, but good wallpaper most of the time.
2. A national station in Afrikaans that goes out of its way to present new stuff in Afrikaans, but also puts out pretty darned good stuff in English and other languages that ranges from the 19th century to the 21st. It also still has some classical music slots, which have disappeared entirely from our other national radio stations (especially the English service, which used to feature top-class classical regularly, along with other listenable material).

When I am at home, I use the TV to tune into a classical music station in Johannesburg, or my computer to pick up other stations.
And since I belong to a church music group, I get to learn and sing new numbers all the time – numbers which don’t appear on the charts, most of the time, but are best-sellers just like the Bible (which never appears on best-seller lists).
Regards,
Mike