The standard is absolutely shocking, and it's for two reasons really. Apart from the general dumbing down of music to please the ignorant masses (look at Linkin Park's latest track for a ridiculous example), The BRITS got in hot water for apparently not being 'diverse' enough, so they've now changed the way they do a lot of things. It's ridiculous because music should just be music, if it's good it's good. Nothing else should come into it.
I run a music website for up and coming music to do with any dance/future genre, and it's going really well. There's a big underground world where real music fans want to find fresh material that is actually good, so it keeps me sane working with stuff that isn't absolute drivel all the time. Half the shit that comes into my inbox is better than anything you'll hear in the charts by a country mile actually. Mental.