Word: anthem
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...Shot Shot,” the opening song and lead single. Harder-edged and more condensed than anything Gomez have previously done, the song runs less than two and half minutes. The insistent three note riff is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “National Anthem,” before Gomez subvert it with a wicked saxophone stab and a blues-flecked chorus...
...when a very moving national anthem was sung before Saturday night’s game, anything less than a classic college hockey game between two great rivals would have been a letdown...
...would have been a pretty bold statement, even if it hadn't been immediately followed by Howie from Backstreet Boys doing a tuneless rendition of the national anthem with his sister. (Which just goes to show you, there are greater degradations than those *NSync Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercials.) This was, after all, the already-legendary newest low point in reality TV, three three-round bouts between professional has-beens on network prime time. But congratulations, Fox: if by "honor" you meant "titillate, tease and ultimately leave feeling slightly dirty," well, mission accomplished...
...listen to “California,” the album’s opening road anthem, replete with shimmering guitars and a fist-waving chorus, and you get the sense the band is just out to have some fun and score some chicks. In contrast to the Strokes edgy “Hard To Explain,” Alex Greenwald’s surfer-dude wail sounds most comfortable singing, “I’ll try for one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand/ Maybe we can be happy again.” There...
Such sunny enthusiasm pushes the album smoothly and gleefully from unrequited love odes (“Always On My Mind”) to breakup-makeup ballads (“All Over Again”) to the sing-along rocker “Anthem,” but no farther. With the exception of the richer, more imaginative musicality the band hints at with “Turn Smile Shift Repeat,”—the album’s best song—it’s all fun sugary stuff, easy to listen to but also easy...