I don ' t think that the new music is worse . It ' s just that I don ' t like it as the old stuff . It ' s my personal opinion . If they want to make different music that ' s totally ok . It ' s their band and we agree that they should do whatever make them happy . It ' s a shame that it ' s not making me happy . 15 years together ? Well , there are tons of bands and artists that keep the same music style for decades . Maybe with some evolution on sounds . There are also cases like The Beatles that changed totally their sound in less than 9 years together and made great music at the end of their time as a band . <| sep |> I think the issue is really that the entire party lined up behind the liberal media bias line for so long that they poisoned the well . This might have been fine if they stuck to opinionated realitybased journalism . But they embraced Limbaugh and his ilk back in the 90 s . The only reason they got away with it for so long was that , up until very recently , media sources were very expensive to start and there were few popular right wing outlets . As soon as there were no cost barriers because of the internet , the floodgates were open . It ' s interesting that local AM radio was always the most inexpensive medium and that ' s where the outright racist , hard right demagogues were twenty years ago . I ' m sure media people saw this coming .