Raditude - Weezer
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  • Summary: The latest album for the California rock band features a guest appearance by Lil Wayne.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 25
  2. Negative: 7 out of 25
  1. 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.
  2. Given what we know about Cuomo's eccentric inner world, it's hard not to find those dazzlingly perfect melodies kind of hollow.
  3. Raditude is an album of surface appeal--there's no heart beating inside these plasticized tunes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 42
  2. Negative: 7 out of 42
  1. MaryH
    10
    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! Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. NathanS
    4
    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. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Marjorie
    2
    Sure, it may be better than some melodies on iTunes but... musically, this is just horrible! It is not about people being die hard Pinkerton fans. It is about the fact that people KNOW the potential of Weezer and to listen to an album like this just breaks your heart. You know those times in college when you wrote an essay the night before it's due when you had all semester to work on it? Well, that is how this album feels, a solid F. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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