Dexter_H
05-24-2012, 05:10 PM
So Dexter and the rest of the band are obviously loaded. Why then, does Dexter go out and say bullshit like "fans change, we just write music that we think people want to hear"? Is he a pin head?
The Offspring had a chance to be a classic band, that in 20 or 30 years people would listen to and think "wow these guys were good". But Dexter's hunger for more money and to please the masses, rather than himself and the rest of the band got in the way. The Offspring is now a joke band.
I was reading a book that had the best and most influential albums of all time, and Smash was included. The spiel about the band described how they went on to become something of a novelty act and a joke. That's before they even heard this cruising california crap.
People will obviously say that the song is a joke and a parody of the music industry or whatever other excuses help them sleep at night. For someone who listens to that song on the radio they will think it sounds the same as everything else and probably buy it, without having the slightest idea that the song is a "joke". Most of the lyrics of pop music these days is just random words thrown in with autotune and some beat that comes preset into a keyboard.
Surely, after you've achieved as much as the Offspring have, can't you just stop trying to please prepubescent teens like some school child? Dexter needs to give the other members some say in what happens, not just dictate. We have seen the consequences of this; first Ron and them Atom. From the stuff Noodles keeps posting he still thinks he's "punk", well then why not tell Dexter to stop being a dick. I guess this "punk" attitude is coming from the man who has said every upcoming album since Americana will sound like Smash.
Pull your heads in.
The Offspring had a chance to be a classic band, that in 20 or 30 years people would listen to and think "wow these guys were good". But Dexter's hunger for more money and to please the masses, rather than himself and the rest of the band got in the way. The Offspring is now a joke band.
I was reading a book that had the best and most influential albums of all time, and Smash was included. The spiel about the band described how they went on to become something of a novelty act and a joke. That's before they even heard this cruising california crap.
People will obviously say that the song is a joke and a parody of the music industry or whatever other excuses help them sleep at night. For someone who listens to that song on the radio they will think it sounds the same as everything else and probably buy it, without having the slightest idea that the song is a "joke". Most of the lyrics of pop music these days is just random words thrown in with autotune and some beat that comes preset into a keyboard.
Surely, after you've achieved as much as the Offspring have, can't you just stop trying to please prepubescent teens like some school child? Dexter needs to give the other members some say in what happens, not just dictate. We have seen the consequences of this; first Ron and them Atom. From the stuff Noodles keeps posting he still thinks he's "punk", well then why not tell Dexter to stop being a dick. I guess this "punk" attitude is coming from the man who has said every upcoming album since Americana will sound like Smash.
Pull your heads in.