From "1984":
"There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator."
Honestly, the difference between what we have today and what we had 10-15 years ago (uninspired, repetitive and boring melodies, and lyrics written by 65+ yo Norwegian men to be sung by and marketed to teenage girls) is not that large.
