I can understand why to diss Aerosmtih for making an album full of ballads, but they never did. They always stuck to their heavy rock attitude for the most part, and once in a while they had some hit ballads. Which I believe are great songs IMO.

Aerosmith's come back didn't make much of an impact on their early days fanbase. Seems like Aerosmith was ready to start again from scratch and try to appeal to a whole new generation instead of doing what they did in their early days. If they wanted to appeal to the older fans, they would have picked Farrah Fawcett over Alicia Silverstone to star on their videos.

There's no doubt that Aerosmith wanted to appeal to teenage kids from the 90s who still wanted to rock and were completely fed up with depressing grunge rock.