Yeah, that's more or less what happened. There's not a lot that one can fairly extrapolate from that comment aside from some clearly rockist tendencies and some overt douchebaggery, but the response was a result of pent-up frustration toward how I've seen a great many people react to that album in particular and dance pop music in general over the past few years. It was also partially triggered by some thoughts re: how audiences are mostly rather unwilling to think of artists beyond a very rigid script, which was a major theme in a blog post written by my friend Chris, which is linked in the same post.
Re: Me agreeing with Matt, pretty much:
Date: 2007-03-08 01:44 pm (UTC)