As someone in the West who often despairs that popular music has moved to auto-tuning vocals, corporate pop and everything else, this article brings a smile to my face.
Great genre, great to hear it has spread so far despite the perception of it being a genre on its way out perhaps these days in certain countries.
Was there a time when popular music wasn't mostly bad? Before the discovery of auto-tune, they must have done lots of manual-tune involving lots and lots of studio takes and other magic.
The 1990s had moments of unexpectedly good, non-traditional music that brushed the mainstream, with stuff like the more "eclectic" grunge bands (Soundgarden, STP, Alice in Chains), metal (Tool), Industrial Rock and Industrial Metal (NIN.)
Great genre, great to hear it has spread so far despite the perception of it being a genre on its way out perhaps these days in certain countries.