Popularity=/=talented. Again, turn the radio on and just listen...you'll struggle to find anything that wasn't done on a computer. I'll give some credit to lady gaga though, for being weird as fuck, she has a very solid voice. Everything else around her isn't talent, some guy fucking around in garage band could make it...but she does have a good voice, unlike Miley Cyrus.
If anything...you're making the argument that Miley is overrated and Tool is underrated

. Thanks bud.
and I questioned you because everytime Tool is brought up, you're like "oh yeah I know that one song...something pieces fit."
Fucking around in various bands with Tom Morrello from Rage, not riding the coattails of their dads career and using that to try and also make themselves big?
Miley's more well known because she's much more marketable. She's on lunchboxes, TV, movies, etc. etc. She appeals to kids and people in general a little more than an anti-conformist group based on alot of drugs and what's wrong with society. However...look at it in this perspective, even though miley is EVERYWHERE...Tool, without putting out commercials, and movies, and radio hits, or even a fucking concert DVD, while taking 5 year breaks still sells more albums...interesting huh?