Cobra Starship, 'Hot Mess' (Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen)
A boatload of disco, with just a splash of panic.
By Mikael Wood 08.12.09 12:04 PM
The marquee attraction on these crafty electro-emo pranksters’ third album is “Good Girls Go Bad,” a sasstastic collaboration with Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester. (Additional TV fun fact: American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi cowrote it!) Yet Hot Mess is flush with other stupid-smart highlights, including “Pete Wentz Is the Only Reason We’re Famous,” a paranoid synth-punk rant in which frontbrat Gabe Saporta insists, “I’m not street, but I do what I gotta do.”
i've LOVED these guys in the past. this album is almost insufferable. it's hard to even listen to 4 songs in a row. the little catch phrases are unoriginal and the lyrics so cheesy that it shatters the suspension of disbelief so that you no longer find yourself able to 'just go along with it'. fun-corny turns into sing-a-long with Barney. ouch.
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