Do not get me wrong I love a beat and a rhythm and samples and electronica and all the bells and whistles and huge production.....I use it a lot.....I just think that it should accompany a song not BE a song. I like singers who can sing and players who can play not someone who pretends to sing or play but hides behind fx and production.
Ask Justin Biebers or Gaga to sing live with an orchestra an old classic and then see who is wrong about talent. Give the pianist in the orchestra all the bells and whistles of the recording studio and get him to write a great pop song....hell he could do it without even thinking.