I sympathise with the reviewer. I remember being a teenager around that time and there were certain bands whose CDs we bought because everyone else was listening to it.
I suspect as those teenagers grew into their early twenties, seeing albums like ‘Enema of the state’, along with the likes of ‘Significant Other’ ‘ Follow the leader’ and ‘Hybrid Theory’, they couldn’t help that they’d been ‘duped’ or forced, as it were, into buying those albums and, perhaps on reflection, felt the music wasn’t really that good but we bought it and spent many hours listening to it because of peer pressure.
I’m sure that this brings a backlash against this stuff, when people reflect that they felt pressured to listen to this stuff to fit in, especially when many of use could sing about as good as the vocalists, and most beginners could quickly learn to play it.
The music is not that bad, it’s just not that good either. There is definitely energy, and Blink-182 music has a great beat to it, with some good melodies. But the songs are very simple, most of them based on the same few chords, and on repeated listens wears thin and feels repetitive.
It was easily accessible pop-rock that could draw in listeners very easily, quickly redundant and easily replaced with the next big thing.
It seems we are all becoming a bit more cynical and discerning about what we listen to., and that’s a good thing.
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