Whenever someone comes up to me with big fucking teary eyes to bitch about how much they hate Fall Out Boy or Kings Of Leon or whatever I tell them to grow a big fucking pair of testicles and suck it the fuck up because it could be SO MUCH WORSE. I’m not here to argue in favour of either of those bands, although I’m thankful to Caleb Followill for his representation of what Michael Hutchence’ singing voice in the final throes of auto-erotic asphyxiation might have sounded like. I just remember the early noughts, when 3 Doors Down were jostling with Papa Roach, Fuel and Lifehouse for the top of the charts. Forget the “Tech Wreck” and the “Millennium Bug”, the wind of Armageddon we were sailing so dangerously close to in the year 2000 was actually just really shitty music.
Here’s the video for 3 Doors Down’s signature travesty, Kryptonite:
