I'm reading through some of the critiques of the scant "Stand Up" clips that have been released, and I can't help but notice how selfish some fans seem to be. There are a few fans out there who have this sort of amorphous blob of ideas in their heads that correspond to how they feel DMB should make their music. They want DMB to stick with their old style but evolve in a manner in which they see fit. i.e. they want the same old stuff but in new packaging, which is how I see some of the songs that were road tested this summer. The band also shouldn't evolve in such a way though that could be construed as selling out to the "mainstream." Heavens to murgatroid they make a song that becomes popular beyond the DMB "hardcore" fanbase and attracts new fans because although those "hardcore" fans say they love spreading DMB, they actually only want to spread the music to those who think exactly like them in essence keeping the music to themselves. Music should be shared by everyone. I also don't understand why some put DMB on such a high pedestal musically. They are not the epitome of musical genius but reading through some of the comments on nancies you'd be hard pressed to think otherwise. Now I know nancies isn't entirely representative of the entire DMB fanbase, but the scary thought is there are these type of fans who are spreading their DMB paradigm around the fanbase.

I just had to rant.

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