Every decade has had its own really terrible, mass produced record company exec music. See bubblegum pop, disco (yes, disco, live with it people, it was awful), a whole lot of 80s pop and hair bands (see above), 90s pop, and Aught pop, which expanded into the alternative genre (hey, record company execs are stupid, but they can find money...)

I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!