I've certainly heard better neon pop punk albums. However, this is still pretty good. It's catchy and fun with some truly sticky hooks. However, even the songs I like on here tend to be a bit overproduced and the lyrics take the cheesy love song idea a bit too far at points. Tongue Tied and Back to the Future are easily the best songs on here just because they have less of these problems than most. Still, it's a quick, fun listen that I think pop punk fans would enjoy.
I'm not the biggest metalcore fan as is, but this is bad even by those standards. The screams sound terrible, the clean vocals are autotuned to oblivion and still manage to sound off-key, and the instrumentation is metalcore 101. If it wasn't for the overproduced yet weak electronic sections, this would be what would happen if you forced an AI to listen to a bunch of metalcore songs and asked him to make his own. Even the lyrics are trash. They're too vulgar for the Christian market, but too sappy and overly religious for anything else. It's like they can't decide whether they're a Christian band or not. The only thing keeping me from giving this a lower score is Family Goretrait, which, while still bad, at last has a good guest appearance from the vocalist of Protest the Hero.
Kesha just jumped from good to great over the course of ten months. I enjoyed Animal, but compared to the amazing first four tracks on Cannibal, as well as the masterpiece that is Crazy Beautiful Life, that album seems like nothing. With this album, Kesha proved that she wasn't pandering to the pampered club princesses any more. This is music for outcasts, filled with fire, hunger, and a sort of feral energy that's both fun for people who get it, and obnoxious to those who don't. This music has an edge to it, and while Grow a Pear and the Billboard remix of Animal annoy me, this album still kicks all amounts of ass.
I love this band. However, their debut, aside from a few songs, does nothing for me. Sure, the riffs on Factory Girl, Goin' Down, and Miss Nothing make for some fantastic songs. It's just a shame that everything else is boring, sludgy post-grunge. God, I'm glad they moved away from that sound.
Justin Bieber is an artist who doesn't deserve the hate or the love he gets. Most of his music is tolerable if a bit boring. His first album, My World 2.0, has a few bad songs, but for the most part it's just generic teen pop with some annoying vocals dragging it down a little bit. Aside from the vocals, a lot of the lyrics on here are way melodramatic, and of course, Bieber can't sell them. I will say Overboard is a decent enough pop song, but the rest of this album ranges from boring to bad. Oh well, at least his singing has improved since his My World EP.