| Kings Of Leon
If it makes me laugh I'll post it in this forum. This is taken from a music industry msgboard:
"KOL weren't "manufactured" - that's utter cobblers. All they were was a young, raw rock band whose label put them into the studio with an accomplished Nashville writer/producer, Angelo Petraglia, who taught them to find their way around the studio, gave them guidance on song structure & dynamics, and also did enough to get himself a writer credit on all the songs. This isn't really anything new. It used to be called "artist development", something just about any decent new band would have benefitted from 20 years ago, but we all know what a lost art that is nowadays. More fool the NME for putting the house on a band purely on the basis that they're a) American, b) "cool", and c) retaining the services of an editorially-sanctioned PR company. If they had the first idea of what it was people like about music in the first place, they'd have stayed on the good side of the Darkness. Either way, I have a feeling that both bands will still be around in a couple of years' time. Can the NME confidently claim as much?" | 
