I mean, yeah, there's a lot of schlock to be had there. But the General Boomer Musical Militant Illiteracy cast its plagueish pall over all of music, meaning that people could no longer listen to the actual music, they could just respond to Pavlovian "feelings" of "me". So. ok, "easy listening" "sounded like" "square" music, when in fact, sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't, but those idiots were completely unequipped intellectually or emotionally to tell the difference.
And has it gotten any better? No.