>>47151
>How can someone unironically believe this?
That's easy, you just have to be knowledgeable about music and the music industry.
The vast majority of modern pop songs are written by 2 or 3 people that are paid by studios.
Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Ariana Grande, Pink, etc, etc ? they are just popstars, products, packaging. They don't write their songs and they barely sing, as was demonstrated by the Britney Spears leak a couple of years ago when we discovered what her real voice sounded like without heavy production and autotune.
Because their songs are written by 2 or 3 people, it's only natural that they all sound the same.
The other reason they all sound the same is that they all follow the same writing process : basically, they reverse engineer other successful pop songs, take what works, and rearrange them just enough so that they can't be sued.
And sometimes they get caught by the mainstream media, like the "millennial whoop" you may have heard about :
https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2016/aug/30/millennial-whoop-pop-music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN23lFKfpck
Pop writers don't compose music anymore, that's too risky for the studio who can't afford to be wrong, so they rely on what's familiar and just do what works. And what works is just skipping the "taking a risk on a real artist" part.
So it's unoriginal, fake, boring.
Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
And like I said previously, to make sure it works, they bombard you with it to force their songs in your heads.