Vertigo wrote:I AM ME wrote:They are already out to the masses in Canada. The reason they started to loose them is because of the drastic changes they were making around happiness era. Not to say they shouldn't have, it is definatly a must. But right now in Canada there's a lot going on in the rock scene, and people are accepting of original stuff that before the masses might not have dug. I think they didn't need to simplifiy anything to continue in Canada, they just needed a revitalization. Gravity was a quick boost to OLP's career in Canada, but ultimatly i think it may have been destructive to there future sucess, because the fans they won over with Gravity, to be honest probably don't have as much intrest in old olp, nor new olp if they change again.
OLP are not an unknown band that need to break out. They're a band that needs to come out with something new and musically superior to bring back the old fans and make new long-time ones. Because to be honest there's a lot of people that would love OLP but they're turned off by it's continuing "generic", "SWOT" image, and don't see the other things going on, they do't take them seriously anymore. OLP is stuck in a musical limbo. They just can't pull off the commerical and pop success that some other bands can, but they also arn't groudbreaking or intelectual enough anymore to draw on the more hard-core (elitist asshole...Ex Me) crowd. So they're stuck depending on odd hit singles for life support.
Anyways, this is all assuming that simplifing has been their choice, maybe it is just a natural progression, which you can't blame them for. They're still one of the better bands in North America, and the world...they're just not a contender for best anymore.
Anyways these are just my thoughts, don't take this as an attack i'm actually holding out hope, and looking forward to the new album, maybe they're even take a risk witha single like they used to which is whatthey need to do i think, the worst that could happen is it could flop like "Made of Steal" did, and they can just release a safe one after.
I know OLP are HUGE in Canada..They do not have the same success in teh USA.. that is what I mean get out to the masses.. Clumsy was a huge cd for them but only on the alternative scence.. Somewhere Out there was huge all over.. modern/alt rock, rock, pop. adult com, and top 40.. I don;t think any other OLP song did that.. and although they released 1-2 more singles off that CD, only SWOt was the huge hit..I never even heard the other songs on teh radio where I live...
OLP have always appealed to people thru word of mouth. I remember when SM came out and going to the shows. People know all the song and the cd ws barely out, any song had the crowd singing. that was the cd that should of beeen big for them here but wasnt'.
it is so hard for any band to be big now and long lasting. let's be real how many bands who are huge now have long term appeal. thisis on problem I feel th industry has.. want aqcik fix-so not willing to take the time to develope an artist.. that is what is sad to me..
getting off topic there.. I was just saying that BOB is very commerical, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.. Personally in OLP's case I think SM was their best cd..
Yeah I don't know, I live in Canada, and I wouldn't say OLP was ever HUGE here. Just because they can pack a 6000 seat stadium doesn't mean they're huge, especially when they have fans willing to travel long distances to see them. So I don't really think they were ever that huge, maybe with Clumsy and Superman's Dead, but even that I wouldn't call HUGE. And now with the big time gap between Gravity and the new album, they're pretty much all but forgotten from what I can see, except of course for the hardcore fans.
thats correct. everyone KNOWS who OLP is, but they aren't canadian music icons or anything like avril. they're known to everyone, have pretty good sales, people know their songs.
i have the exact same problem. im often trying to get people to listen to olp's good stuff but all these hardcore hardrock guys are like "but they are rock pansies" and would rather prefer to listen to nickelback...... hmm.
