Big fun summer songs like this tend to work better when they have, you know, actual choruses. Blaaargh. I don’t like it when artists waste opportunities like this.

From 1:33 – 1:36 on the Towers vid, the drummer looks like he’s fighting either gastrointestinal discomfort or repressed memories.

Cuz they don’t age or something. I dunno, I never read those books/movies.

“Come original”

-that’s what 311 said.

Yeah, so not emo.

I don’t really care either way whether Stereogum approves Skrillex for us or not. I’m not a fan but ya like what ya like, I don’t hate. But From First to Last were so emo. I think Tom might be forgetting that “emo” devolved in the 00′s, and no longer just meant Dashboard + Promise Ring. A lot of heavier stuff went under that umbrella, but there were still kids crying their black tears out over FFTL songs.

Listen to the song ‘Emily’ by FFTL and tell me that’s not the very definition of mallcore emo. I bet you at least 15 wrists were slit to this song.

Homer Simpso would hate this.

I don’t think he should have apologized. It was understood that he didn’t mean “people who make electronic music are bad”, he was just railing against the talentless canned 4-chord ‘music’ that’s all the rage. I’m actually surprised that the dum-dums who listen to that stuff actually understood the words he was saying.

I just read that thing with the people saying “who is paul mccartney/who is bon iver/ bonnie bear”. I am really sad.

I wish it had REAL HUMAN HAIR.

Is she singing in Simlish? I can’t understand a word. Love the music though.

I misread the title as ‘Betty White & The Roots’.

One can dream…

A lot of the things I wanna say have already been said by other commenters, but I’d just like to expand on Evan’s comment here. The rationale is absolutely correct. With the logic that’s been applied to posting this review, you could just as easily make the next “Album of the Week” the new Nickelback album. In fact it would actually be more eligible, considering that Chad Kroeger writes nearly all his own material, and Miranda Lambert doesn’t. She’s an interchangeable blonde country girl whose songs could have been anyone else’s. It could have been a flip of the coin that put those tracks on her album rather than Carrie Underwood’s or Taylor Swift’s. Until she’s featured as a guest on a Fleet Foxes track, I believe that she and her kind shouldn’t be talked about here, much less lauded with critical acclaim.

But hey, your site, your rules.

Well seeing as it’s the People’s choice, always assume the worst will win. So yeah OneRepublic has it in the bag. Dunno why though, they haven’t put out a record in two years.