There are few certainties you can count on in life: death, Jenna Elfman still having a career despite evidence that no one actually likes her, Michael Bay movies being terrible, the QB of every Super Bowl team thanking God post-win, and the Jonas Brothers claiming the top spot on the Billboard 200 every time they put an album out because tweens run this shit. The Jonas Brothers' latest, Lines, Vines and Trying Times (which sounds like a romance novel about plants that grow on walls) sold 247,000 copies in its first week out, cruising to number one. The album could mark a down tick in Jonas Brothers hysteria as the band's last album, A Little Bit Longer (a song cycle about Enzyte) moved 525,000 copies in its first week out.
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But this album is so good! And I kinda disagree...the Jonas Brothers put out music that hearkens back to the times when adults had a say in what passed muster, pop-musically. They are the exception.
The stuff that succeeds because of all the adolescents and the adults that think like them are more of the Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga ilk.
The Jonases might BE cutesy teens, but their music is more real deal than many posing indie artists.
Trufax. Most people who slam them don't actually understand the history of pop and rock music and where their sound fits (thought the same could probably be said for a lot of their fans).