tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548811549626243382.post3971356903528296290..comments2023-06-28T11:50:46.984-04:00Comments on The Metal/Punk Continuum: Metal Idol, continuedAxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14293011605103482762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548811549626243382.post-18881915430636165422011-04-14T12:37:54.356-04:002011-04-14T12:37:54.356-04:00For me, good is relative when it comes to things l...For me, good is relative when it comes to things like what appears on American Idol. Will I ever buy a James Durbin album if/when such a thing is released? Hell to the n-o. But do I enjoy seeing this kind of stuff on a show that began its life trying to manufacture the next Spears/Timberlake/Whitney thing? Indeed I do. Now, whether the change is a sign that metal occupies the same cultural terrain once occupied by boy bands and teen pop is different question altogether...(although on that score, metal already covered that ground; see Def Leppard's Hysteria).Axmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293011605103482762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548811549626243382.post-75702396425896449012011-04-14T12:11:57.887-04:002011-04-14T12:11:57.887-04:00I gotta disagree. Just like the Priest performanc...I gotta disagree. Just like the Priest performance, this was just godawful. It's like a bad version of Steel Panther. gah. Good point about the solo though (part of my problem with the Priest was the continual soloing underneath the vocal -- as if to say, 'it's metal, it must have a guitar solo in it, even if no one ever sings over guitar solos in metal')Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784816539969025128noreply@blogger.com