Trapt

With three hit singles, the album ascended to #42 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart, and went on to spend more than 80 weeks inside the Billboard 200. It was certified gold by the RIAA on May 15, 2003 then platinum on November 24 of that same year, making it Trapt’s most successful album to date. By 2005, the album had sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S.

In an interview with VH1, Chris Taylor Brown stated:

Everyone has this path they think they should take – it’s the safe route. You go to college; you wake up everyday and mow the lawn; and go to work for eight or nine hours a day. We didn’t want to do that. We wanted to say that you don’t have to do what everyone else does. It was an eerie picture, like it was straight out of American Beauty. So we thought it was cool to have on the front