I really like the music of Nysnc and thought the whole production quality of the late 90's pop scene was something awsome. But I prefer todays time with Justin instead. I feel the music is better and thats what the stars of now are concentrating on and truly in their own element doing their own thing. I most likely always prefer as it still reminds me of the early 90s with Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and New kids on the block.

(1) If i listen to new pop-culture music,it's basically TV shows music (Friendship is Magic intro)
(2) JB is true opposite of idol
(3) I wasnt around in 90s,but they were better for sure.

There were plenty of shallow, superficial musical artists in the 90s - Spice Girls, for example.

Late 90's singers still had to have aleast some talent
2000s/2010s
Things got more shallow. The machine will push a good looking person with very little talent. Miley, Justin Bieber, Gomez and most singers today wouldn't have made it in the 90's.

It's hard to say without being bias. I'm a fan of the late 90s early 00s music era, that's the era where I was a teen.
All I've learned from having these kind of conversations from people from different eras, is that everyone will always find their era to be better than the previous or the current. There are few that I like from the era before the 90s and a few that I like from the current era. Of course, growing up in the late 90s early 00s, I find that music to have really hit the spot.
When Britney Spears was out and becoming the pop princess of her time, I remember older generations stating that she was a cheap wanna-be of Madonna. I could of cared less who Madonna was or what she had done in the past. Her music was old and she was old. Britney was our "Madonna" at the time. Now, Britney is receiving the same treatment. Current middle school to high school teens, feel the same way about Britney. She might of had been a pop idol back in the late 90s and early 00s, but Taylos Swift, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, and Selana Gomez are the current pop idols.
I'm only using Britney as an example to avoid my post from turning into a whole book with various examples from other pop idols of the past.
So yeah, in 10 years, someone will ask the question only people will be comparing the 10s vs the 20s.

I think of 80s bands like New Kids same way.
The 70s's Osmonds I liked..
Amanda Bynes is hot and Lindsay Lohan is not.
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With the right manager/producer and such.
Amanda Bynes is hot and Lindsay Lohan is not.
Profile pic: Courtney Thorne-Smith.

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I've seen 5th Harmony o YouTube,etc. and think they're somewhat good..I like Maghan Trainor (then just upcoming as a singer back when the the Aug 17 2014 and earlier comments were made) very much!
Amanda Bynes is hot and Lindsay Lohan is not.
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This new generation is so GAY and suicidal.
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Music was way better in the 50's and 60's because we didn't have the technology to enhance a singers voice

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I agree with you to extent, but not with everything. Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan are from an older generation and I always thought they were talentless. I find some of the "kids" from today more talented than them (that girl group Fifth Harmony are OK), but several others are not. I used to think Bieber was tolerable but he's become too much of a d(rhymes with sick) for anyone to like him anymore.

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If this was 1998, Miley Cyrus and Selena gomez wouldn't be famous today. The times have changed.
I will say that the girl groups out now are talented (Little Mix, Fifth Harmony), unlike Gomez & her ilk.

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Not a pretty good comparisionno buffer zone much between 90s and today'sNYSNC, Backstreet Boys helped lay the groundwork for the tude of today's stars generally (along with new Kids).. Here is something that should really be an important answer:Hey, how about at late early-mid 70severyone seems to forget Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, Osmonds, and in the 60s Hermans Hermits. In regard to the poster who noticed that a 1990s Spice Girls fan might not think much of later music, and now just as well teens will find Spice Girls old fashioned, not that, though (my words now) that means hating them (a Midwesterner or suburban kid on the coast might actually like thosea lot of Hanna-Barbera's 1970s bubblegum rock bands, such as that cat show (Cattanooga Cats),Scooby,Josie, Pebbles a nd Bamm Bamm Show needless to say have a camp attraction to the younger kids (SCOOBY's been pretty well known as a younger kids thing), and thanks to Bridesmaids, whose rating level is 17the age average of today's teens, Wilson Phillips has a whole new audience (also if you read the Jersey Boys entrym, there's threads about m odern audiences enjoying them, that the Four Seasons have been kicking for over fifty years.)
That is my closure on that topic.:)
(Now to cover my ears as Scooby-doo and WIlson Phillips music is forced down my ears by smme kids with boom boxes-just kidding on Wilson, I like them.)
MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

In further reply to all before and all that will come:
I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s (even some of the cartoons were a bit better than laer).*0s,(0s,k etc. What about Hermans Hermits, The Osmoinds,m etc.THe first poster and others didn't mention that.
MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

I'm not big on most A-list bubblegum pop, but does anyone remember the late-90s Irish girl group B*Witched? They were one ob68f the few pop acts I could genuinely get into. They could kick Bieber's butt anyday, if you ask me
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