BUT, yeah...it's the white kids who kind of drive the popularity and economics, or at least that's what the numbers say.
i never thought about the music becoming less agressive when compared to rap, either.
that's sort of what i was telling her about the Deftones. i had never heard that album and i liked it, and i was asking her "what happened to these Deftones - this is pretty good. all i knew of the Deftones was mid-2000s kind of crappy alternative music."