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Jewish music tends to follow the styles of non-Jewish music. Just as that which was popular 40 years ago was heavily influenced by American folk-rock, styles today are influenced by whatgever those young people are listening to, and the music 100 years ago resembled the goyhish music of the day (note the lingering similarities in many Ashkenazi styles of hazanus to the styles of operatic singing – indeed some hazanim back in the 20th century who went off the derekh became opera singers).
Given the tremendous variety of musical styles, one can find some they enjoy.
While one might object to copying styles from the goyim, we’ve been doing so for 2000 years so it seems that doing so is an established minhag.