The singer has openly shared his appreciation for both acts in the past. So when he was asked why the bands seem so polarizing during a recent interview with SNSMix (watch below), Hardy got straight to the point.
“Because they wrote hits,” the singer matter-of-factly remarked. “I think that anybody is easy to make fun of when everybody else likes them. I think that's when people start disliking bands is when everybody starts liking them and that's just a, it's just a horrible truth.
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