Music in the early 2010s

Conor Maynard and his collaboration with The Vamps on the cover of Shape of You was on my YouTube homepage, and I was just reminded of how I had heard of Maynard's name in the past. In the early 2010s, I listened to a few songs, including Vegas Girl, Animals, Turn Around and Can't Say No. They were all Maynard's works. Then Bridget Mendler's Ready or Not came on and so did Cher Lloyd's With Ur Love. Music back then was light, poppy, fun without heavy doses of autotune, basses, or lyrics with painfully obvious sexual innuendos. Currently, so many singers are trying to mix other genres with pop to allow them to have a unique selling point but because the market is so saturated, it's difficult to establish a new style. Why would it hurt to go back to the basics and back to pop? Pop is not derogatory. Don't dismiss pop as something unimportant and prioritise something called "alternative pop" or "pop rock" because they're still pop songs and let's make it a lot lighter. Early 2010s was such a carefree period.

Take everything you want with a tub of salt. Do your research and listen to the "old"-pop and then decide for yourself.