I don't know, "Seaching for Sugarman" is a pretty good Rolling Stones approximation. Adam Sandler made a pretty legit music career out of stuff kind of like this.
But why listen to a "Rolling Stones approximation" when you can listen to the Stones.
As far as I can tell, a large of portion of bands aiming to make it are indeed good or bad approximations of existing pop bands and mover over, entirely aimed at satisfied the fairly uniform taste of mainstream audiences.
Most are poor approximations of this but a few are indeed good approximations of this. But it doesn't matter.
The problem is that none of these develop anything creative or more specifically, they aren't serving any taste pool but this wide mainstream (this is arguably necessary for their success - they are practicing at being good at specific skill, being alternative wouldn't be the same practice).
So even, especially with even, bands being "almost good", there's still no reason for me to listen.
