Why Pop Music Sucks illuminates the modern history of music exploring every decade from the 1950s to the 2020s exposing how pop music developed and evolved to the state within which it exists now. Why Pop Music Sucks tells a story about magic but you know the magic is going to end, and the future is an ugly question mark. Why Pop Music Sucks explores all of this change by change, and element by element, AND... in less than a hundred pages. Why Pop Music Sucks is here to slap you in the face. We have become the "frog in the pot of water that succumbed after being ever so slowly boiled to death." This book will illuminate the facts, events, legislation, economics, human behavior, and technology to which all of pop music and all of us have been affected. The media environment within which young people exist is one that favors visual interaction within a musical performance. For middle-school, high-school, and college students, Why Pop Music Sucks will explore that environment and explain what happened in a succinct, memorable, and interactive way in less than 100 pages.