Beyond Good and Evil

I fancy myself as forward looking and living in the now but worry that music might be going backwards. The Guardian reported on an academic study that proved pop music uses progressively less varied melodic variation, rhythmn and timbre. Effectively this means that it does all sound the same. Kids now seem to accept this, unfortunately. This record is 34 years old, why are young people now not wanting to be as challenging as this? Also, look at their clothes. I always thought that Spandau Ballet ripped their look off the Pop Group. Here's the proof.