It's ironic that their generation doesn't even have it's own music because music is now free content. Americans teens listen to a lot of rap and hip hop, but it's because rap and hip hop artists are desperate for money and or recognition. So, they'll spend all that time trying to make it as musicians. I saw a black male hip hop artist that writes songs go on the Bill Maher show to beg people to stop downloading free music. He said that guy that wrote "Happy", which was as huge a hit as you can possibly imagine, made only $20,000 from that. Oh the writer of Happy was Pharrell Williams.

Also, because no one can make money being a musician anymore, these musicians trying to make it have to be muggging for the camera on dumb American tv shows constantly which to me makes them huge sell outs.