I guess I'm not noticing them in the pop charts. I still hear manufacturered stuff, which isn't to say I dislike it all, mainly on the pop stations.

I just meant knowing something about music, playing instruments, etc. Just pushing random buttons on a synthesizer, sampling and using autotune are fine, but if they were the only skills left music would slowly die.

Yeah, but eventually it will be people sampling songs that sampled songs..

Music where people can, you know, actually play musical instruments or know any music theory is dying.