Their second most recent album, Medicine at Midnight, was good. Not great, but good.

Frontman Dave Grohl released his autobiography.

Grohl's mother released her own book featuring stories from mothers of famous musicians.

The band starred in a pretty cheesy, but well received, horror film titled Studio 666.

Their most recent album, But Here We Are, was fantastic.

They've won all kinds of awards.

But there was bad news as well in the form of the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins and of Grohl's mom shortly after that.

So, yeah, combine all this with the widely held belief that Dave Grohl is the "Nicest Man in Rock" and you have a recipe for long-term endurance. No matter where I turned, I heard Foo. Terrestrial FM radio. Extra-terrestrial Sirius/XM radio. TV. Movies. Muzak. You name it, they had infiltrated it.

Until about two or three weeks ago. That watershed moment where Dave's nice guy visage shattered into a million pieces with the news that he just had a child out of wedlock. Yes, the nice guy cheated on his wife of 20+ years. And it turns out that his affair was ongoing for quite some time. And even that woman may not be the only one he had affairs with. And just as news broke, he was talking to divorce lawyers. Please note that Dave also cheated on his previous wife.

I hadn't really thought about it right then, but that's about the moment I stopped hearing Foo Fighters playing everywhere I go. 

I only really started hearing them again the day before yesterday... and again this morning.

But, each of those two times, it was the song "Cold Day in the Sun" that was played. This song is different from the rest of their catalog because it was sung by the late Taylor Hawkins, not Dave Grohl. It is also possibly my favorite Foo song ever because it puts Taylor in the limelight and shows off his own musical influences, which clearly includes KISS as this song is evocative of some of their old balladry.

Seems pop culture is having its Come to Jesus moment with the Foo Fighters.

Don't get me wrong... I love the Foo Fighters. I have since day one. I just never prescribed to that "Nicest Guy in Rock" image of Dave's. He seems like he's fun and whatnot, but I always wondered how much of that was truth and how much was constructed by publicists. Much like Ellen DeGeneres and we all know how that played out.