Non-Pazz & Jop Music Critic Quote of the Day
”During the genre's recent Dark Ages — the mid-to late '90s and early into the new century — those never-say-die rock fans set adrift in an ocean of teen pop and hip-hop had to settle for the monolithic, skulking style embodied by a bunch of interchangeable bands: Creed, Fuel, matchbox twenty, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, and, of course, 3 Doors Down. All shared several traits: a post-grunge reliance on songs that lurched from simmer to boil; a generic, every-shlub look to match their sound; and a tendency to depict white-guy angst as a Sisyphean struggle against vague oppressive forces. They sounded as if they were raging not against the machine so much as a wind tunnel."
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David Browne, reviewing the new 3 Doors Down album in Entertainment Weekly.
Posted by Stephen Silver at February 9, 2005 09:35 PM