grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
I think it depends on where one looks.If you search hard enough, you can always find a great new song. It's just much harder. You have to wade through mounds of absolute crap to find a good one. That's sad. Last century you didn't have to.
Also, we're people in our 50s, 60s {I presume}. We have over half a century of music we've loved stacked up. Naturally we're not going to find plentiful supplies like in the days when we were discovering. It's not that it's harder to find good songs, it's that we're loyal to what we love and we get fussier. That's just a reality of getting older.
For me, I remember saying back in 2011, 2012 that I'm no longer looking for new music. And I'm still not. I have enough to get me through till I'm well old {}. Now, every so often I'll hear a song that I will buy and add to my collection but it's always coincidental, either I've heard it on TV or my son was playing it, it's never that I've gone looking for it. And usually if I have, on someone's recommendation, gone looking for a particular artist/album/song, they're usually from my favourite era {1964~1983} anyway !
But so did hundreds of artists. But Alice Cooper didn't create any new style of music. They moved within an already existing and evolving genre. That's what every artist does.For originality I'll merely point to the name on this thread. The Alice Cooper band took rock and created a singularly original sound and experience