I'm not gonna lie here, folks. I had some pretty high expectations. Having heard their '90s smash hits "Every Day" and "Fly," I was thinking that Sugar Ray's new album, Music For Cougars, would be, by far the best album of 2009.
Well, I was wrong. Only kind of though. I was expecting a masterpiece full of Sublime-but-good songs, but what I got instead was a bunch of generic radio rock full of autotune. Gone is the lyrical genius of older songs ("I just wanna fly/put your arms around me baby"), replaced with shit that doesn't even make sense ("If you wanna see the rainbow you gotta sit through a little rain" what the fuck is this supposed to even mean?)
However, it's not all bad. The songs are catchy, and, as previously mentioned, covered in autotune, which is the best thing to ever happen to music.
I'm not gonna go into any of the individual songs because, well, none of them really stick out that much. Actually, "Rainbow" is a pretty nice, standout track (yeah, the one with the shitty lyrics). But yeah, other than that, it's just kind of bland, inoffensive pop-rock. Actually, the final song, "Dance Like Nobody's Watchin'" sounds like some kind of Jack Johnson bullshit, which does offend me.
Score:
5.5
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