When you're twenty years old and you release an album that is angry, people can connect to that. I mean the kind of album that's just angry. No real aim for the anger just angry. Angry at people who you perceive as being jerks, angry at society, angry at girlfriends, etc. It works when you're twenty because you are angry and all the people your age who would be buying your music are angry as well. When you're in your 30's and a millionaire, it may be easy to still write about being angry, but it's hard to really find the drive for it. By your 30's if you still want to sell anger it better be anger that's aimed at something specific. The political system, war, poverty, etc. It really doesn't work if the anger is amed at autotuning. Maybe at 20, not at 30.
This is the failure of this album. It still sounds angry, the lyrics are angry, it has pretty good hooks, but it falls flat when you think about who is singing it and what they are singing about.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 0 out of 5 stars for Don't Like.
And by 40 you better be figuring out some way to do something about what you're angry about, or it's probably best to just give it a rest until you're 60 or 70 and you're again allowed to sit around being angry all the time.
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