a night with the worlds most hated bands

I've read that one before. Love Klosterman's writing.

Well, give me the opportunity to quote the AV Club...

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Speaking of pop-music villains, the detestable Scott Stapp and his unforgivably awful band Creed make their NOW! debut with “With Arms Wide Open,” a maudlin celebration of new fatherhood that finds Stapp bleating goat-like over melodramatic strings and third-rate grunge.

A lot of people hate Scott Stapp, mainly because he fricking sucks. They hate how Creed combines the worst elements of grunge—humorlessness, pretension, hunger-dunger-dang over-singing, melodrama—with the worst parts of Christianity: self-righteousness, faux-piety, rank hypocrisy. They hate how the monobrowed Stapp looks like the lovechild of Billy Ray Cyrus and a caveman, and they hate his penchant for striking Jesus poses. But mostly, as I argued earlier in this paragraph, they hate him because he fricking sucks.

A culture-wide tidal wave of Schadenfreude ensued in 2006 when Stapp was busted while getting a drunken blowjob from groupies alongside Kid Rock on Kid Rock’s tour bus. At that time, he could be heard loudly espousing family values throughout Clear Channel nation. Of course, blowjobs from groupies aboard tour buses is one of the preeminent perks of rock stardom, but it felt a little creepy coming from a guy keen to tell women what they should and should not be able to do with their bodies. (On “In America,” he thunders, “Only in America we kill the unborn to make ends meet.”) For those keeping track at home safe, legal access to abortion = morally wrong. Getting a sloppy BJ alongside the man who wrote “Early Mornin’ Stoned Pimp” = awesome.

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I love Klosterman's writing, but completely disagree with him on all things about music. He gave a rave review to Chinese Democracy for godsakes. Still, I'll read pretty much anything he writes.