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Pop music from 1959 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgaZZl_GVg

Pop music is stupid because it's catchy. It's always been that way, always will be.

If you ever want to get some perspective, look at the songs which were actually popular, not the ones preserved in the playlists of oldies stations.

https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1958/hot-100

Ah yes, The Chipmunks with David Seville. Real highbrow stuff there. (And I loved that record when I was 10 :-)

That song was actually popular though. It obviously wasn't as popular as any of the songs on that list but it did peak at number 3.

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