is it a kind of dream?

Attempt at a music analogy: in your teenage years you discover an obscure band and really enjoy their music. Hardly anyone else listens to them, but you like their different style and the small group of devoted fans who take the music seriously. Then they stage a come-back, write some new poppy songs, change the line-up, sign to a major label and are suddenly all over Radio 1 with sell-out stadium tours full of teenagers. Everyone's talking about them and you're happy they've had a new lease of life.

But then you notice that the new music is quite different to the old stuff. It's got some similar lyrics and seems familiar, but something fundamental in the beat has changed in modernising and popularising it. The new more poppy music isn't inherently bad, just different, but it's not how their music used to be, even though the name on the front is the same. Instead of a small group of devoted fans who listened for the music, all the gigs are full of teenage girls pushing to the front to throw their underwear on stage. The band appear on everything from pencil cases to yoghurt pots. They make a novelty Christmas number one single; it just isn't for the music anymore...

Hmm, I may just have been rambling nonsense there, particularly towards the end. Anyway I only started on Who with "Rose" so I'm not really qualified to comment!