OK... Blink is extremely successful, and many other bands have created a market saturation of sorts... Making us in turn think that Blink isn't as good as they may be. Their new CD is very good, and if your like me and never watch TV or listen to the radio anymore than you might be able to see it for what it is. My opinion is that there are alot of bands out there, in the punk genre, that see them assome guys capitalizing on a musical fad, and they are, but it's not their fault that todays musical, and lifestyle fashion can be described as pop-punk. It's bands like Good Charlotte that were created with the sole reason to capitalize on this fact and make the labels alot of money. Blink made it on their own merit, if you don't believe me open you mind and search the net for some of their stuff from their days touring SoCal clubs, and other small venues. They have talent, they write thier own songs, and single-handedly invented, if not accidentaly, a whole market niche. Unlike freeskiing, once you go bigtime music is a business, and you have to start making desicions on what your label handlers, and manager tell you. It's funny that Blink would come out with an album that is such a departure from what we're used to, but there's a good reason for it, and if you can't figure that out you might need to stop watching MTV and making your daily trips to Hot Topic... They made a meorable album and it's a credit to them, it's a shame that radio burn out came into play within 2 days of the first single's radio release, but that's not the band's fault. The same thing happened to Nirvana and the entire grunge movement in the early '90's, which for all intents and purpouses, at it's basic level was a beautiful thing, but because the media hyped it so much back then we weren't able to see them for who they were. You young 'ns probably can't remember any of this... But nowadays Kurt Cobain is hailed as one of the best singer/songwriters of all time, there were many tv and radio tributes to his life earlier this month on his 10 year's death anniversary. And Nirvana as one of the greatest bands to pollute the airwaves, let alon all the other mainstream grunge bands like Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains. Ok, I know I've kind f gone off topic here, but as a music lover I hate hearing people bash a band without looking at a certain group from different perspectives. We're not all destined to succeed as I found out a couple years ago with my band, but we can't hold it against it to thos that do, unless they're totally, unquestionably undeserving.
