For the majority of the radio-listening populace I'd imagine their parameters for what is accessible are broadly similar.
If it was a scale: you'd have something like 'Please Please Me' at one end (catchy melodies written to sell records); the other extreme would be half an hour of white noise by Merzbow or musique concrete - in pop terms far too unstructured and abrasive to make for easy listening.
Not that your modern-day wannabe hustler/scene kid could digest 'Please Please Me' but you see where I'm going.
Youth culture today has a problem anyway, there hasn't been a good generation gap since punk and most kids don't like hard dance; so you're left with the Killers and music that you can listen to with your parents coming at you from every shop PA. LAME.
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