The Teenagers
Reality Check

that speaks volumes about its author but nothing about this album, which is very passable.

It's meant to sound like backing tracks to moments of poignant dancefloor contemplation on teen flicks. They're holding a prom to launch it.

you've missed the point. sublimely.

ner ner ner ner ner

I would genuinely be happy.

trope about the 'perils' of Nabokov there. always good to know that aphorisms can still stand-in for argument.

a stitch in time saves nine. or something.

"It's like saying Lolita encourages paedophilia. Grow up." Eh?

I fully appreciate there is a deal of understanding behind Reality Check. But it's that of some smirking adults' ability to come up with a couple of sniping commentaries on adolescence.

I toyed with it being brilliant for a while. It is, in fact, gash.

To say that 'Nabokov is a dangerous tool in the wrong hands' is an attempt to create a vapid truism rather than engage with why my parrallel is/isn't accurate.

This is a good album, it's fun, it's pop and the lyrics are clever, (You don’t believe in monogamy, Im not jealous, scarlett will marry me). There isn't an in joke as such, there not pretending to be teenagers, most of the songs are about adults in relasionships (the accountant from gap in Sunset Beach, Love No & French Kiss generally), told with a little bit of wit.

Good one, ssssam. :)

.. but I wouldn't put it in the same category as this album. It's definately better than 4/10 and your review is terrible. I purchased it so therefore I am an utter cunt apparently. Thanks. I'm glad somebody else thinks you 'missed the point' whatever that point may be. If it's sexist, which I don't think it is, it's smarter than you seem to realise. I'm not going to stand up and say this is a great piece of art, the fact it is slightly 'throwaway' is one of the reasons I like it. Where does the Backstreet Boys reference come from aswell, I can't see that one.... j

you idiots just. dont. get. it. As for the backstreet boys reference, its there alright...and something to be proud of...

8/10

PS. Big tunes

your post reads like a bitter flash back/utter afterthought of bad school days.

its 1984 and you've just started school after an atrocious summer hols in Benidorm.

You have the gross misfortune of witnessing some sort of shower scene, which you've yet to fully recover from.

Was it the too cool for school, yet stylistically redundant merok who did this to you? you certainly come across as having some bitter resentment towards them.

If you want self illusionary serious faux objective commentary on the latest music fuck off and read some middle aged rock wank mag.

1. it is impossible to seperate, journalism and 'written for entertainment purposes' reveiws, whereas you can pretend to sit on a high horse and comment on the 'music' the allusion of doing so merely obscures the fact that it is just as personal/subjective/utterly arbitrary as making a few jokes and slagging something off
2.i cant beleive anyone who cant stand /gets offended by the public use of obscenities even begins to use dis (which is built around such jokes....'jokes' being the key word)

but for the wrong reasons. it would seem to me that dis comes from the beleif that all writing should be taken with a pinch of salt - especially anything which states an opinion - be it in the form of hot headed, exagerated obscenity or cool calculated, balanced review.

(from my pov) its not that the dis mission statement is to 'entertain rather than enlighten' but it realises that in reality they are the same thing. or in other words a review that rants, shouts and swears is just as enlightened/valuable as some descriptive objective and fair piece reveiw you'll find in a sunday supplement. this is the same logic as letting idiots like you, me and everyone else post as much shit as we do and making jokes/puns/talking shit in news articles.... all opinions are of the same worth/worthlessness

...yes again your very right, the reviewer is on a 'very lofty horse' - but the point is its the same lofty horse that the journo working for any other publication sits on.. and again what they 'throw down' is ultimately of the same value but dis(as well as others i'm thinking of vice, maybe parts of planB) doesn't pretend otherwise...

... i guess it comes down to what you/your like, personally i've got time for most things, if you don't value dis style journalism don't buy into is.... i just don't see the point of slagging off this reveiw, for being 'terrible'/'lazy'/'embarrasing' etc.

... as for your last point it was the post above yours that seemed offended by the review, however the reliance on obscenities isn't shock tactics but rather to make people laugh...

sense of humour... cunt/knob/shit/bloody etc

I think I ended up on Pitchfork. S

hasnt produced that record
so.

is amusingly addictive.
I hated Homecoming at first, but now love it. And by love it, I mean love the fact that it's so bad it's amazing! haha

it's hard to intellectualise this album at all. it's simply an amusing pop culture record that will serve it's purpose for a short time and then go to the bin like everything else.

It may not encourage sexism but it certainly wallows in it. As amusing as some of the tracks are in isolation, when viewed as a whole the sentiments on display can come across as a little sinister.
Maybe they're not as misogynist as they seem, and are being terribly clever but I can only really judge them on the finished album. Which is a pleasant, occasionally funny listen that sometimes leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.