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...notorious for his love of pop culture, referencing bands and pop icons from the Beatles to Green Day in his previous work. With “Raditude,” Weezer takes that love of everything pop one step further, enlisting major pop song writers such as Jermaine Dupri and Dr. Luke—the man behind Miley Cyrus’ chart-topping “Party in the U.S.A.”—to add to the band’s pop sensibilities, and unabashedly mimicking easily recognizable musical elements of the past decade?...
...elements of mainstream pop to which Weezer has not even attempted to attain in the past, the results of which are largely unfortunate. One of the most anticipated songs on the album is “Can’t Stop Partying,” co-written by Jermaine Dupri and featuring a rap solo by one of the hip-hop world’s most recognizable figures, Lil’ Wayne. Weezer takes a shot at dance-pop, using the cliché R&B babes and booze formula: “I gotta have Patron / I gotta have...
...present admiration. See, back when Bow Wow was still Lil’, he swore never to talk to his once-mentor after being scolded for taking too long in the shower at their crib. Bow Wow moved out to live with his bud Lil’ Romeo, and Dupri spent the next few years concentrating on growing his beard. But in this new age of hope and change, the two swore to uphold the creed of “Obama, no drama.” So they kissed and made up, announcing their revitalized bromance on the cover...
...dealer? After watching him dance, rap, and generally look awful—but ever jovial–in the video for Nelly’s “Grills,” my suspicions are all but confirmed: Paul Wall is none other than St. Nicholas himself. And Jermaine Dupri, the producer of this half-decent song, is one of his loyal elves. The setting of the video is pretty nondescript; it might be a recording studio, it might be a dentist’s office with slightly better lighting. Except for the grills themselves (which are indeed very shiny...
Luckily, “Mimi’s” treacly ballads don’t inhibit enjoyment of its Dupri-produced pop gems. “It’s Like That,” the follow-up single to “We Belong Together,” is a consummate club-banger: Dupri relies on little more than an Indian flute loop and an arrhythmic drum machine beat to craft an incredibly danceable track. The song’s beat is so hot that its occasional lapses into lyrical absurdity—at one point Carey opines...