I guess that with Easy and many other poppy songs of the band there is feelings that poppy songs are lesser songs. Like You´re Still Beautiful is a bad song as it´s too simple and "straight". To me the pop aspect is just one aspect that the band has. It has always been there and it will probably always be.

Even the band has sometimes been a bit sorry of their poppy parts. In the 30th Anniversary-tour program Marty desribes ULTC as an "...album of songs for the radio that would never play them, with tunes for imaginary audience that only existed in the fantasyland..." Why would they do pop, since their audience don´t want them to do pop and they are unlikely to be played in the radio anyway.