I just have one question: what are we to make of the Kings of Leon‘s transformation from greasy-haired, southern-fried dirt rockers — i.e., this:

… to poncey American Idol contestants; i.e., this:

I mean, really, am I the only person who finds this transformation both weird, and, I dunno, somehow backwards? Aren’t rock stars supposed to start out dressed for success, then let themselves slip into lazy, bongwater-atained hippiedom? What’s going on here?

HVB