Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure
Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.
Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.