Or are these hits evidence of a creative slump, a sign that pop musicians have lost their ability to write effective melodies and songs?

At the same time, pop and rock music in the United States was undergoing a creative slump due to several factors, including audience fragmentation and the effects of the anti-disco backlash.

Williams became one of Kazan's closest and most loyal friends, and Kazan often pulled Williams out of "creative slumps" by redirecting his focus with new ideas.

Newsweek pondered how network television - in a major creative slump at the time - would be able to go on without it.

Yet it could also serve as a positive force, by re-energizing an advertising industry widely believed to be suffering from a severe creative slump.

But Davis was in a creative slump in the early '60s.

It's the story of a has-been rock star, Ray High, whose manager connives with a wicked, whip-loving pop journalist to goad him out of a creative slump.

He just joined the Perry Ellis company, which has been in a steadily worsening creative slump since the designer's death in 1986.

The song was written while Hyde was in a creative slump.

There's a creative slump in rock's more aggressive styles; maybe musicians are hoarding brilliant ideas until 2000, so they won't get lumped in with that old 20th-century music.