I really want to like this group...I mean I REALLY want to like them. Their music is cool. The intensity of their songs is high and it's hard edged. BUT, the one thing that keeps me from digging them is that whiny-ass female singer. I absolutely cannot stand her voice. To me, she ruins every single one of their songs. Couldn't they have found someone else that could carry a pleasant tune? Heck, was Cindy Lauper not available? Jeesh...it depresses me when I get stupid hangups over things. I've tried really hard to listen to their songs and like them, but I just can't do it.
When I saw these guys perform on Leno a while back, I just about fell out of my chair laughing. The chick singer is a total goth wannabe and the "rapper" guy was a wearing a black t-shirt that read FREAK in white letters... with stonewash jeans and white tennis shoes. Oh yeah dude, you're really living outside of mainstream society with that get-up. Oh wait, he had both ears pierced. He really is freak after all. The rest of the band was trying really hard to look nu-metal with their black jeans and plain black t-shirts, but it made them look more like beat poets with Flying-V guitars.
I heard an interview with the girl singer and she was saying that it was terrible that some women in music use their bodies to get attention instead of focusing on the music. Then, I see the video and it starts with her laying in a bed writhing around. I don't like that type of music, so I guess I am a bad judge, but they seem like Linkin Park, but worse. And I don't like Linkin Park. Go out and buy the 'Datsuns' CD if you want something that rocks. Comes with a 3 song DVD.
The Datsuns will be better in a couple of years when they change their name to The Nissans. I love that joke.
I think they blew their Christian fan base when the lead male singer said something like "I dont know why these bible guys think our music has anything to do with Jesus"
Well, he isn't really a "rapper" guy... Check out 12 Stones.com to see his band (where as he just was featured in that Evanesence song), they've been getting a good amount of props from the industry insider-types... Gotta defend the old high school bud...
Regardless of which band is his full-time gig, that t-shirt made him look like a dork. I know accountants that give off more freak vibes than that guy did.
