Boy bands were 100% better than the shit we have these days in TV. It's mostly Britney Spears being relived through Miley Cyrus, the real britney spears coming back, Jonas Brothers talking about how they want a real relationship and love you from the bottom of their hearts but aren't ready to have sex with you because it's not religiously correct, emo kids screaming about how their life sucks and they want to kill themselves while they make millions of dollars off the teenage retards who buy that shit, rap still sucking for the most part, and that's pretty much it.
Well there's also screamo bullshit and metal getting even gayer and more mainstream, oh and 80% of the people you know are now 'hipsters' (but they all just search the internet for obscure bands that sound like shit and say they're good just because).
I think the last good album I've heard was probably Owl City's Ocean Eyes.