- Label
- Polydor
- Release date
- 15th June 2009
- Genre
- Pop/Rock
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The production line keeps turning – but at what cost?
Has a teen-pop act ever been milked quite as dry as the Jonas Brothers? Coming just months after last album A Little Bit Longer, Lines, Vines and Trying Times is the God-fearing US brothers’ fourth studio record in as many years.
The strain is telling, too, with songs like grisly break-up anthem Poison Ivy (apparently about Joe Jonas’ former squeeze, Taylor Swift) and the Miley Cyrus duet Before The Storm sounding tired, overwrought and rushed.
They also abandon their breezy pop-rock musical template for bluesy rock and country excursions, and bizarrely duet with Common on a piece of kiddie hip-hop called Don’t Charge Me For The Crime.
It all smacks of Hanson’s doomed attempt to abandon Mmm Bop-style fun-pop and embrace adult rock and, worst of all, it’s no fun. It’s surely time the Jonas Brothers escaped their record label’s death grip and went off to do some real living.
More to try:
Hanson: This Time Around
McFly: Wonderland
Busted: A Present For Everyone
