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 Nashville pop-rock group Hot Chelle Rae has friends in high places. Singer Ryan Follese and drummer Jamie Follese are the sons of country songwriter Keith Follese, while guitarist Nash Overstreet's older brother, Chord, stars on "Glee." And on "Whatever," its sophomore disc, Hot Chelle Rae gets an assist from Demi Lovato in "Why Don't You Love Me," a midtempo power ballad not unlike Lovato and Joe Jonas' duet from "Camp Rock." (Los Angeles teen-rap also-rans New Boyz turn up, too, in opener "I Like It Like That" - though they're probably benefiting more from the collab than Hot Chelle Rae is.) You can hear the result of all those showbiz connections in the radio-ready economy of high-sheen hook bombs like "Keep You With Me" and "Tonight Tonight," the latter of which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year. Put it this way: The guys of Hot Chelle Rae probably aren't lacking for people willing to tell them to hurry up and get to the chorus....full text |
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| Let's talk about the McDonald's McRib. It's not really that good. You don't know why you like it. But something about it makes it so irresistible that you can't get enough, and even though you might feel a little ashamed, you don't seem to mind very much. That could also be applied to the majority of pop music, and Hot Chelle Rae's new album, Whatever, represents it perfectly. Hot Chelle Rae made their presence known in 2009 with their debut album, Lovesick Electric. It took more of a rock based direction, but it wasn't until their early 2011 pure pop smash, "Tonight Tonight," that helped their popularity skyrocket. Going double platinum since, the track is featured on Whatever, and exemplifies exactly what the rest of the album contains: atrocious lyrics, mediocre to decent vocals, and trite instrumentation ... but when it comes to this genre, the "make or break" lies within the record's lasting appeal -- how memorable and catchy the hooks are. With all things considered, these are some of the catchiest melodies that will be heard all year. However, even if the songs are insanely catchy, it can only go so far until the glaring flaws become too much to not notice with every listen. Vocalist Ryan Follese has performances that range from sub par to unnecessarily whiny, but for the most part, it fits pretty well. Lyric wise, its all been said and done before, except on Whatever, it gets a little bit worse ("I heard your friends say I changed, so that's hearsay / They only say that when they're drunk, so that's beer say"). Additionally, the whole "put a rap verse in a pop song" gimmick is probably one of the most obnoxious features in music. It never works -- ever. Yet Hot Chelle Rae give it a go three times with features from the artists New Boyz and Bei Maejor ("I Like It Like That", "Whatever", "Radio"). Sure, the random raps might make it "fun" -- but the songs are already fun enough by themselves, and you can't help but to realize how much better the tracks would be without them. Either way, for what might appear to completely ruin a song, the rap verses don't entirely diminish their overall accessibility. Everything negative about the album might be enough to steer someone away before they even give the band a chance, but what makes Whatever worth the time is all thanks to its production team. Hot Chelle Rae traded Eric Valentine, Butch Walker, and Matt Radosevich (the Lovesick Electric producers) for a plethora of pop powerhouse producers such as S*A*M & Sluggo, Evan Bogart, and Andrew Goldstein (formerly of The Friday Night Boys). Most of the record even sounds like The Friday Night Boys songs on steroids, so that alone shows that their goal for Whatever was to make gigantic hits, and in that sense, they've accomplished it greatly....full text |
| Latimesblogs |
| Have you looked at today’s mall-punk scene and thought “Hmm, what this subculture really needs is its own Jimmy Buffet?” Meet Hot Chelle Rae, the quartet of Nashville music-biz scions who are responsible for the fact that right now you are singing their ubiquitous piano-skeeze single “Tonight Tonight.” Suburban kids need decadent, parents-on-vacation house-party bangers, but where something like Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” had a bit of storytelling in its youthful hedonism, “Whatever” just feels smug. Singer Ryan Keith Follese’s nasal catcalling makes references to girls being “California dimes” feel creepy. Product placements for iPhones and Skype abound, while the title track suggests to those with crushing student debt that “Hey, hey, life ain’t fair.” You have to ask if the tween sector of the 1% just found their house band....full text |
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