I have to think this is more a reaction song given how much hate the band got when they beat a good number of mainstream acts like Eminem and Lady Gaga etc to win the Grammy Award for best album a couple of years back.
The song is a tribute to the fans of the band who have stuck with them since their early days, before they gained mainstream success with "Neon Bible" and so forth.
It's also a bit of a metaphor for the group's standing within the music community: both with the indie fans who loved them then hated them when they went mainstream while still listening to their music/buying their albums and with the non-indie fans, who might have hated them when Funeral/Neon Bible came out but since gotten onto the bandwagon of liking them due to their now being part of the mainstream.
I have to think this is more a reaction song given how much hate the band got when they beat a good number of mainstream acts like Eminem and Lady Gaga etc to win the Grammy Award for best album a couple of years back.
The song is a tribute to the fans of the band who have stuck with them since their early days, before they gained mainstream success with "Neon Bible" and so forth.
It's also a bit of a metaphor for the group's standing within the music community: both with the indie fans who loved them then hated them when they went mainstream while still listening to their music/buying their albums and with the non-indie fans, who might have hated them when Funeral/Neon Bible came out but since gotten onto the bandwagon of liking them due to their now being part of the mainstream.