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Originally posted by Sazare
God, I hate these awful circlejerky discussions about how music "used to be so much better." It wasn't any better. You're just singling out all the music that's stood the test of time and forgetting all the generic and derivative stuff that cluttered up the charts at the time.
In ten years someone else will be talking about how '10s pop was better than pop of 2024 and they'll be citing music like Rolling in the Deep, Get Lucky, Teenage Dream, We Found Love and so on, all the while forgetting about dirge the likes of Whistle, Payphone, Born This Way, and Party Rock Anthem. This is literally the way it always goes. We always look upon the past more fondly than we did at the time.
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I agree with you to some extent. There are many examples of dreadful songs from the 2000s. Those years offered dreck such as Sisqó's "Thong Song", Creed's "With Arms Wide Open," anything by Shaggy, anything by Nelly (such as the "masterpiece" titled "Shake Ya Tailfeather"), D4L's "Laffy Taffy", T-Pain's "Buy You a Drank", and anything by the Yin Yang Twins and/or Souljah Boy.
It's all a matter of perspective. There is however a significant larger amount of better singles from the 90s and 2000s than there are today. For every awful song by Shaggy there were at least 5 great songs by the likes of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child.
You cited some good examples, but I believe the amount of singles that qualify as great in the two previous decades (and the 80s, for those who are even more nostalgic) exceeds what's been released in the past 4 and half years (both in quality and quantity).
They only get hits because of collabs. On their own, they would flop into oblivion. Personally, I long for the urban trend in music from the 00's. However, Tinashe's 2-On is helping me cope with the nostalgia. It sounds fresh out of 2003 
You must've forgotten P!nk, Kelly Clarkson, and Avril Lavigne 