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All Music Guide

Ultimately, it's Weezer's deft mixing of immediately hummable rock with lyrics that reveal Cuomo's own melancholy gaze on the pop landscape that makes Raditude a passionate surrender to growing up and a throw-your-arms-up-and-scream ride down the other side of the mid-life roller coaster.

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Entertainment Weekly

Raditude still feels like the product of Rivers Cuomo, who's no less unnerved by girls than he was before his 15 years of rock stardom.

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Boston Globe

Instead of trying to divine the line between earnest and ironic, Weezer fans should just sit back and enjoy what works here. And like every Weezer record, plenty does.

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Rolling Stone

His willingness to make fun of his psychosexual damage only makes it more poignant.

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The New York Times

Raditude sounds like a high-stakes game of chicken, and the intellectual gamesmanship becomes more satisfying than the music.

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Alternative Press

Raditude seems intent on establishing itself as a now album, sacrificing any sort of cohesive vibe for a pop-friendly disc designed for car stereos to be turned to 11.

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musicOMH.com

Overall, this one's largely forgettable, and plays primarily as a jokey--if not well produced--one-off continuation of The Red Album.

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Spin

Old-school Weezer fans won't like it, and neither will blog-rock acolytes. But that's the point. Raditude is the murderous revenge of the middlebrow.

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New Musical Express (NME)

Given what we know about Cuomo’s eccentric inner world, it’s hard not to find those dazzlingly perfect melodies kind of hollow.

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Prefix Magazine

Sonically, the lean disc is more in line with Weezer’s recent work and the overall mood is playful--with plenty of lyrical references to a radder era.

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Q Magazine

The tunes come think and fast, but their geeky adolescent routine is wearing thin. [Jan 2010, p. 126]

Uncut

Weezer's likeabe, insubstantial powerpop has often been infused with somewhat tetchy intimations of latent intellectual heft. On Raditude, this manifests in guest appearances by Amrita Sen and Nishat Khan on the dreadful "Love Is The Answer." Elsewhere, though, Weeaee seem to have ceased to care. [Feb 2010, p.107]

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Hooks only go so far, and outside of 'Put Me Back Together' and 'I Don’t Want To Let You Go,' Cuomo doesn’t appear interested in propping them up with human emotions.

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Los Angeles Times

The weird aftertaste of Raditude isn't that Cuomo has so surrendered the oddball charm of his band's first two albums, though. It's that his late-career pursuit of mindless, opulent fun is so transparent that it almost taps a deeper vein of interior sadness than anything on "Pinkerton."

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Pitchfork

Raditude doesn't have that stench of minimal calculation on it; if anything, it's as earnest as the famously confessional Pinkerton, just written by someone whose age doesn't match his POV.

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No Ripcord

Weezer disappoints again. The rest of the tracks are, for the most part, more throwaway power-pop in the vein of the "Red Album."

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Sputnikmusic

The dressing is a little different this time around; a few more jokes, a couple catchy tunes (this is most definitely not the worst Weezer album ever), but once again Weezer are content with churning out sugary pop tunes that go down easy and unimpressively.

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NOW Magazine

Whatever the case, Ratitude is both a clunker and a fitting end to a decade in which Weezer continuously spiralled downward.

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Paste Magazine

Raditude is an album of surface appeal--there’s no heart beating inside these plasticized tunes.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Raditude is not a great album or even an interesting one.

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Drowned In Sound

In general, the choruses are forgettable, the guitars are woefully exaggerated, and the quirkiness that made Weezer a band to be cherished now seems forced and stale.

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Dot Music

Driving yet jaunty guitars abound and backing chants fill the required spaces, yet it all comes across too much like a sub-par parody of their former selves.

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cokemachineglow

Raditude is thoroughly extraneous. It is Weezer’s worst album.

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Under The Radar

Raditude is just the latest and fullest articulation of Cuomo's wincingly sad desire to become a mainstream success, [Holiday, 2009, p.79]

Slant Magazine

Raditude is a thematically vacant and sonically uninspired collection of ditties tailor-made for mainstream radio; it consistently fringes on unlistenable.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 78 User Votes

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Renata A gave it a9:
It's a middle of the road Weezer album. However, since they're far superior to other bands, it's an overall great album. The lyrics are sort of silly but the melodies are great.

andy gave it a5:
I'm sorry, this is weezer's worst. the 5 is for the deluxe. Run over by a truck and prettiest girl are awesome. the single great and i like trippin'. i love every album and i thought the red album was a step forward, but some of this is just so bad. i dont care if its not pinkerton but there so much more capable of aking beter music. In one year they went from the kick ass "greatest man that ever lived" to " im your daddy". "dreamin" to "the girl got hot" (which is the worst weezer song ive ever heard). im sorry but this album is quite the dissapointment, and im one of the unusual weezer fans who really does love (inspite of a few clunkers here and there) every weezer album.

Nathan S gave it a4:
To put it most simply, this album is the musical version of a horrifyingly embarrassing mid-life crisis. It's nothing more than Weezer trying to sound young and fresh and hip and cool and blah blah blah, while forgetting that, not only are they too old to be cool, they've long been the poster children for geek rock and thus will never truly BE cool. I don't want a repeat of Blue. or Pinkerton, or Green. I'm not looking for them to go back to what they where. I"m just asking for Weezer's next step in evolution to actually BE evolution, and not just an attempt to cash in on pop melodies marketed to teenagers.

Kel S gave it a0:
Worst Weezer album ever. And that's saying a lot. Anyone who enjoys this album is either 12 or fooling themselves.

Porksworh R gave it an8:
A mighty fine pop album. Doesn't have some of the great moments that 'Red' had but is a lot more consistant. 'In The Mall' and 'Trippin Down The Freeway' were the real highlights for me. Keep Weezin'.

Mary H gave it a10:
I thoroughly enjoy this album. If you're looking for the blue album you won't find it with Raditude. I think people forget that bands learn and grow with each passing year just people do. So what if it's trying to be a "pop" album? This album exhibits their fantastic musicianship, as well as well thought musical composition. It's what I know, love and expect from a Weezer Album!

Jess gave it a10:
Simply Awesome! So glad the guys are back to their old ways!

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