No, switch off the nostalgia goggles. People were saying the exact same thing in the year 2000 about contemporary tunes compared to 80's music, except they were right...

Most post-1980's pop music is sh!t, period. I say this as a 90's kid born in '89; the 1990's and onwards was the rise of talentless, manufactured boy and girl groups that most of us have long forgotten by now. That is, those of us old enough to remember...

Get me an 80's pop CD or a soundtrack from a film or whatever based in that era, and I'll like 80-90% of the tunes on it. Same with anything from the 1960's and 1970's. Anything from the 90s, 00s or now and there will be maybe be two or three good tunes, but the rest is MEH.