Its a musical preference, I personally despise pop music with a passion and love metal and all that other underground music, others love mainstream, I cant say I’m fond of it but I don’t go calling it crap every 5 minuets, I do think pop music is crap and hated that korn song, there old stuff was great.

But many bands sample new stuff for a time (look at powerman 5000). The thing is bands, writers, painters or any other type of artists sample and try new things, even if only for the fact that they are board of there current style. There is a possibility they are making a switch to a different type of music, but my guess is they tried something new for the sake of trying something new, even though I do not like there newer stuff.