NOYB, catch yourself and besalel are right. We’ve always echoed our surroundings. Older generations may not consider modern Europop, trance, punk-pop, rap or whatever genre to be music, but to the younger generation, it is.
It’s kind of like how my parents’ generation abhors the use of the term “ain’t” while my generation (middle aged Millenials) and younger use the term and think nothing of it.
To make the point:
– Shlock Rock parrots and parodies 60s-90s rock music.
– The song “Yidden” by MBD is a literal rip-off of “Ghenghis Khan” – 70s pop music.
– Miami Boys Choir in its heyday sounded like 80s and 90s pop music.
– Shlomo Carlebach and Diaspora Yeshiva Band sound like 60s and 70s rock music.
– Chazzonus is essentially the Jewish version of the opera.
– Chassidish niggunim are Eastern European folk and drinking songs. To wit: I heard someone use “Korobeiniki”, a morbid Russian love ballad also known as the music in Tetris, for those who have played video games, in davening.
– I witnessed someone use the most recognizable chords of the song “Iron Man” in Hallel.
– One of the most popular tunes for Dror Yikra in the US is “Sloop John B”, as in The Beach Boys.
– The Shabbos Zemer “Ka Ribon Olam” – The author – R’ Yisrael Najara – literally wrote it to the tune of an Arab song that was fairly popular or common in the 1500s in what was then Jewish Gaza.