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If by some off chance you ever stumbled across Bon
Jovi procreating with Backstreet Boys circa As Long
As You Love Me, Love Drunk is what you get. From
start to finish, pop rock with fat guitar solos
big enough to make the Guitar Hero grade fill your
ears and, if Boys Like Girls got their way, your
hearts too. Channelling the best of 90’s pop
chartability with classic rocks riffs, the Great
Escapees make you bounce and sing along to their,
erm, sing along choruses and love lorn lyrics.
Any self-confessed serial shape shifter who dares
listens to opening track Heart Heart Heartbreak
will be physically bursting at the steering wheel
to throw down as beat after beat pulsates from
you ears to your toes. All the while anthemic
riffs spiral your frontal lobes like a vulture
over Florida road kill.
The title track, Love Drunk, is almost as, if
not more, road trip karaoke worthy than its predecessor;
together build the want to see these boys do their
thing – make kids rock out and dance like
there’s no tomorrow - in the flesh. This
is a fact many will find hard to swallow; like
a shot of cheap tequila, rock snobs won’t
want to like it but they will always have a go
when they think nobody is looking. In parts, it
may be different levels of wrong to enjoy this
record, but do you always want to be right? No?
Me neither.
She’s Got A Boyfriend dabbles in relatable
relationship issues while adding in a pop backbeat
makes it perfect concert cannon fodder. However
with some originality lacking, this tune feels
more like the answer to Avril Lavigne’s
Sk8er Boi but layered with less cheese than Frankee’s
retort to Eamon’s I Don’t Want You
Back. Boy, weren’t the mid noughties magical.
Contagious. Oh Contagious. Hands up if you know
of any girls who actually relish being compared
to an infectious virus? Of any kind. Hmmm, probably
not many, but if a girl ever needed an ego boost,
this is definitely it: ‘I’m feeling
sick girl you’re so contagious…I caught
it when I kissed you’. Otherwise an uber-catchy
pop snack, kind of like the common cold. Atchoo!
For me, Real Thing, starts off so close to the
mid-90’s Bon Jovi knuckle without the responsibility
of controlling the macho sex appeal of Bon Jovi.
Persevere with this one though as the chorus has
so much tap-ability that you simply must chant
along with every note.
Truth be told, it took me a little while to get
through the album in its entirety as the first
4 tracks, with the exception of power ballad featuring
country darling Taylor Swift, kept me flicking
back for more, and more, and more. After that
though, I felt Love Drunk left me wanting something
more substantial than average pop rock - something
more vodka martini than pint of snakebite. Skipping
tracks isn’t something I enjoy but, in a
nutshell, Love Drunk left the disappointing taste
of quantity not quality sitting in my mouth like
dodgy Chinese food.
2.5/5 saved by Heart Heart Heartbreak.
Review by Jessica Acreman |
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Martin Johnson
Paul DiGiovanni
Bryan Donahue
John Keefe |
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1. Heart Heart Heartbreak
2. Love Drunk
3. She's Got A Boyfriend Now
4. Two Is Better Than One
5. Contagious
6. Real Thing
7. Someone Live You
8. The Shot Heard 'Round The World
9. The First One
10. Chemicals Collide
11. Go |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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