This might just be me, but what would make people think there
isn't any good pop out there to begin with? Common sense dictates that such a point of view is wrong to begin with.
Pop, AKA music designed to be relatively catchy (choruses, refrains, bridges, yaddayaddayadda) or easy on the ears, has been fused at one point or another with pretty much every genre known to man. Power pop, jazz-pop, pop metal, prog. pop, industrial, ambient, electronic, etc. If you can name it, then in all likelihood there's somebody out there doing it.
I guess what it comes down to is how interesting and/or catchy a person or band can make a song within the perceived constraints of commerciality, and even that is a rather subjective observation.