Spektr

*Bear in mind, this is just my opinion, don't take it as an attack on anyone's taste in music*

I openly hold scorn for bands like Linkin Park. I feel that they feast on the wallets of dispariaged teenagers with cliche, repetitive wailing about how hard life is because some girl broke up with them, or any number of other juvenile contrivances. Linkin Park cannot turn pain into art. I don't see any pro-active elements to these guy's lyrics or music, just endless screams about how life is all ultimate suffering about nothing.

Furthermore, popularity has nothing to do with how talented or brilliant a band is. Modern pop music is pop music because it is simple, appeals to the vague similarities in large groups of people and doesn't attempt to be artistic. Music is supposed to be an art, not a business. Are you upset? Depressed? Listen to Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.