Black people have also made rock, alternative rock, metal, punk and the rest (not to mention discarded shit like funk and soul and other non-popular forms of black music, jazz and classical). Is it the dominance of black music, or a very limited strain of it, that's a problem?

Granted, there is a lot of variety within the limitations of contemporary rap, hip hop and r&b.

#1: the use of "shit" is not intended to dismiss those genres; I was just using it in the generic sense.

Wonder what passes for 'white' music these days?
Travel to the Red states and listen to the radio.
The most shiteous, maudlin, alternately self-pitying and absurdly posturing, country crap. Entirely derivative, processed deracinated pablum cooked up by committee and put through the musical veg-o-matic, the aural equivalent of velveeta.

20th century Black American music is this country's single greatest contribution to world culture. They might as well celebrate whatever's left of it than dip into what @5 describes.

Justine Bieber is not the Elvis of our day, he's... Fabian.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/…

This article sums up the current state of music so perfectly. Most of the performers at the Grammys create this same "music by committee," where dozens of writers, producers and programmers all converge to craft a hit for a performer. The days of the great music creators (everyone from Joni Mitchell to Stevie Wonder) are LONG gone.

@6: and the 20th century is over. for nigh on 2 decades. it shows.

the Grammys are, and have always been, shit.

@5: Yes, certainly only one type of music (which does not even exist, you just kind of made it up in your head) is the only thing all white people listen to, or produce.

What is ironic is that it is the popular music that is written by a 50 person committee, performed by people who may never meet, auto-tuned and over produced to death, and derivative of last year's derivatives. That is the Velveeta of music. Race has nothing to do with it.

CNN Breaking News headline: “Hillary Clinton reading indicates the 2018 Grammys were Too Black”.

Rap and hip hop have been around for such a long time now they've become repetitious and boring (no matter what the color of the artist performing them). They're no longer cutting edge or innovative.

It's past the time for the emergence of a new musical form, and all we've gotten that's new is a spate of whiny voiced white boys (Sam Smith, Charlie Puth, etc). Today's popular music has grown so stale, I couldn't sit through the Grammies telecast, which I found to be neither too male nor too black, but too "so what".