i know this is gonna sound like im just admiring the greenness of your grass but i really feel like the whole respecting pop music for what it is thing works a whole lot better in the USA than in my country where most of the music i hear on the radio is just the same melodies and chord progressions and the same synth instrumentation again and again and again.
there is always a lot of that, because there are a lot of people trying to copy the latest successful songs. so you get a lot of the 'clone' effect. listen to a real time air-check sample from any period in history and you will see the same thing .... but over time they will disappear. this adds to the illusion that 'modern music always sucks' because the clones would not have disappeared yet from the current time