power ballads?

ok, so the nytimes reviewed a concert by rascal flatts....a group made up partly of folks from ohio....when we went back to mid-ohio one summer they were playing the morrow county fair.....that is just how far these folks have come...but how far can one say they have come with a review that starts like this?.......Wholesomeness reigned when Rascal Flatts headlined Madison Square Garden on Friday night. The top band in 21st-century country music, with four multimillion-selling albums and a fifth that has sold a million copies since September, Rascal Flatts is fearlessly contented and relentlessly inoffensive.....ouch...to be called relentlessly contented and inoffensive is a sign of just how far some bands will slide to the middle so as to not be upsetting to anybody......no cause except to send everybody home happy afterwards?.....we watched a video about jackson browne a few nights ago....and this is a man unafraid to stand up and be counted....against nuclear power, against pointless wars/bloodshed.......for the past 30 years........the kind of person that the dixie chicks would do well to emulate......my workmates just love rascal flatts...and that is fine...but if i am going to go to the trouble to actually buy a song collection.....i am looking for more than white bread and fluffy cotton candy......