Hanson

These boys have a lot to answer for, don't they? Before Ike, Taylor and Zachary came
along to melt every barrette in America, the radio was a very different place. Three years
after "MMMBop," we've got boy bands up the yeah, masterminded by an Orlandinavian
conspiracy of Dr. Evils who hide in their labs and ask the musical question, "Why settle for
trillions when we could make . . . billions?" Even at its most automatic, the teen-p... More >

If you thought they were bad when they were cute, or even that they were cute when they were good, believe me, you don't want to hear them mature. Self-made arena-pop that's done so much time in the weight room it's got 98° scoring steroids on the street, this meaningless, overstated, three-years-aborning follow-up gutted its way to gold and disappeared. Bye. (Grade: C-)