What happened to the meaning in music?

Is it just me, or is music these days getting less and less talented? All it seems you have to do these days is take three easy chords and write catchy lyrics (that don't even have to have meaning or make sense) and you have yourself a smash hit. Gone are the days, for me at least, when music would take you to a different world or spark your imagination. The days when people wrote about anything and everything and the guitar work was something that kids today, like me, 30 years later would marvel over. Now it seems to be all too much about the same topics. If it isnt a rap song that talks about money cars and drugs, it's a "rock" song (well, it really isn't rock to me) that's about going through a break up or about how much life sucks, even though alot of those artists grew up in middle class America.

Although it may not seem all that controversial, I'm sure there are many people that would strike back with a response defending their position on the matter. It just doesn't seem like it's about the music anymore, just about selling records and being "rockstars", a term that is thrown around very loosely in this day and age. Back in the 70's and 80's, bands like Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and The Eagles all wrote songs that had very profound meanings, that ranged from gun control, ballads about war, love, and even sociological issues that question the fabric of society. Where are these themes now? Maybe I'm just overlooking the songs out there today, but until I hear some good retalliation to this, this is where I stand.