Don't knock it, don't knock it.
I love those crazy Kings of Leon the way a pawn shop owner loves junkies. Just when it's startin' to look like a slow news day, one of the brothers Followill goes and says something that's, shall I say, "candid." If forced to hazard a guess as to why our beloved Kings are not always perceived as cool by a "nob head"—something their fans from over the pond are sure to call me—such as myself, I'd say it probably has something to do with how they come off as the kind of band who are more concerned with being cool than being good. Case in point: singer Caleb Followill lamenting the growing disparity between their commercial success and perceived "cool" factor, in an interview with Spin magazine this week:
We definitely got bigger than we wanted to be...You feel like you've done something wrong. That woman in mom jeans who'd never let me date her daughter? She likes my music. That's fucking not cool. You almost start doing damage control: When people ask you to do stuff, you're like, "No, because I can already tell this record is going to get to a level where people will fucking hate us."
