- Label
- Polydor
- Release date
- 2nd February 2010
- Genre
- Pop
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Jonas Brother Junior reveals Who He Is: a crashing bore.
One of the least likely or appetising spin-off projects of recent years finds the youngest of the Jonas Brothers attempting to establish his solo credentials via an album of raucous pop-blues anthems.
It’s a curious venture indeed: the leather-jacketed 17-year-old Jonas stares out from the cover with a guitar slung around his neck à la Dylan and confesses that this audacious, transparent stab to court a more mature audience is based on his idol and fellow New Jersey native, Bruce Springsteen.
Inevitably, it falls hopelessly flat because no matter how many rock-star poses and power chords Jonas summons up, tracks such as In The End and Last Time Around merely sound like scuffed-up Jonas Brothers outtakes and are precisely as plastic and antiseptic. Rock‘n’roll is never so anodyne, so polite or so plain boring.
More to try:
John Mayer: Battle Studies
Dave Matthews Band: Everyday
Hanson: This Time Around
