this cracked me up

Yellowcard recently spoke to MTV about the relatively difficult time the band is having with their album Lights & Sounds. The album is the followup to their breakthrough record and major label debut Ocean Avenue.

Violinist Sean Mackin said:

We have all these theories as to what happened, but basically it comes down to the fact that we don't have the momentum that we had at the height of Ocean Avenue. I think some people in the band felt the need to rebel from where we were and the kind of acts we were grouped with. A lot of people in our band thought we had a lot more to offer. And that's how we've ended up where we are

I think that the band went on ... maybe not a tangent, but we had a goal in mind, and at the end of the recording process, we were so proud of how artistic we were, And I think we showed too much. I think maybe we were a little too jaded and a little too dark, and I think that the lack of hope and faith that we put on this record made us a little less sparkly and light to people

I think it's funny that these dime-a-dozen disposable bands go from: debut multiplatnum ----> follow up failure -----> dumped by their major record label -----> nobody even remembers them a few years later.

It seems to happen to every band that gets radio play.

Except Bon Jovi. They'll be having radio hits after you're dead.

but they established themselves on albums that were not their debut.