Most music that charts and reaches the top of the charts is hardly thought provoking, and hasn't been for a long time, if ever.  There are certainly exceptions to this, but most music that reaches the top of the charts does so because it's got a catchy hook or a beat people like.  They don't particularly care if the lyrics are intelligent, or if the writing requires a doctorate to decipher.  Even much of the "deep thinking" lyrics of days gone by that charted were more than likely the result of some drug or alcohol induced haze, and the writing wasn't any more intellectual than "All About that Base".  People were afraid to question them for fear they'd not seem as deep, so they just went with it.  Inagodadavida?  Seriously?

 

Even some of the great song writers through time have produced some absolute crap as well. 

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