Unpopular Opinion - the quality of production is leagues and bounds better today than it was in the 90s and early 2000s. Some of the things these kids are doing with beats is just incredible.
@Sion I can explain why.
Back in the 80s, 90s, and even the 00s there was a saying, "It ain't final til it's vinyl". What that meant is that you could have a song on a cassette tape or a CD, but it wasn't official until you pressed it on vinyl because that's something that takes a budget to do. Not just anybody could make a record and have it pressed on vinyl. You needed money to manufacture the records, and then you needed a distributer. Even if you only pressed, say, 10,000 copies, it would still cost a significant amount of money and you'd have to make that back before you recouped/ started making a profit.
The reason artists/labels pressed music on vinyl is because that's what DJs were using at parties and nightclubs. DJ's used vinyl well into the 00s until mp3s and Serato took over.
Getting to the point. When you make a vinyl record, there's only so much bass you can have on the song. When there's too much bass the record skips. So there was a industry standard of how much bass a song should have. This was so if you gave your record to a nightclub DJ or a radio station, the song wouldn't have any more, or less bass than the two songs before and after your song was played.
Circa 2010 They stopped making records for good. Serato took over and 9/10 of artists and labels saw no need to press vinyl. As a result the records from around 2010 to now have more sub-bass than songs from the 1950s up until around 2010.
Basically if there's too much bass it causes the record to skip, when they stopped pressing vinyl they could use deeper sub- bass.
