Most of us have seen the series where O-Town becomes a band. I laughed, I laughed, and, well, I laughed. Crying somehow didn’t seem as appropriate as the boys fell off the Lou Perlman shipwreck. I actually felt that those sent off were lucky because they could now pursue high profile solo careers without being signed to that pop factory dictator. But alas, the portly Pearlman sends another group from the conveyor belt to land in our laps.
O-Town brings hopes of “Liquid Dreams”, a song that isn’t anything new or a surprise for popsters, but that is all they had to bring. O-Town tries to act a little more grownup with “Every Six Seconds” but it falls like a tree in the forest, except there is someone to hear it. It sounds like you’d expect, a crash.
O-Town follows the same sort of power lines all their successors have before them. I mean, why try something new? Why even put any real thought into that? Didn’t NSYNC sell two million plus albums in one week doing the same thing? Well, boys, there is a big difference, and if you can’t see what that is then I feel sorry for you. Pretty faces may sell albums, but in the end will that keep bringing back fans? No. There are a lot of pretty faces in music today and none of them are doing what NSYNC or Britney Spears has been able to do. Just like anything else, there are different levels to everything. There is the Lexus and then there is the 1984 Chevette. O-Town is more of a broken down version of the latter.
+ cc morris
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