Invincible

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共12首歌曲

艺人: 5ive
语种: 英语
厂牌: Arista Nashville
发行时间: 1999年11月16日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Peter Fawthrop

Projecting themselves as a harder-edged, occasionally rapping British Backstreet Boys, 5ive know how to spew out an album-full of accessible tunes. The quintet has cocky humor down pat, starting with the CD booklet suggestion &Everyone who doesn't want to admit they like what they hear, we'd prefer you used the CD as a coaster.& No need to worry -- the album is dizzying, fun, danceable, and all-around glowing. Listening to Invincible is like listening to a fledgling high school talent show group. The members have ambition and a youthful vibe that draws in listeners instantly; no older, matured singers are going to come up with this kind of music -- this is their time. What this also means is that to enjoy the songs one has to forgive their sophomoric lyrics (&you got me trippin because I want you bad&). Considering their target audience, their sexual prowlings are more difficult to forgive. On &If Ya Gettin' Down& they throw together the message that the group is back with a new album with the lyric &I heard somebody say she's at the party so I'm gonna get me some.& It is hard to catch the messages in most of the songs because the rhythms over-compensate particularly for their individual voices (future solo albums seem unlikely). What is evident, and what mostly separates them from competing boy-bands, is that their focus is not on love songs. The one that best qualifies as a love song is the tender &You Make Me a Better Man.& On its own, the song is sensitive and believable, but no intelligent teenage girl is going to believe them for a minute when the rest of the album is seeping with hormone-driven girl catching and shallow guy-talk. An exception is &Mr. Z,& a song about a man who places caps on his cat's head. This truly witty tune is probably the funniest yet to show up on a boy-band album. Positivity reigns supreme on tracks like &Keep on Movin& and &How Do Ya Feel,& which are melodic enough to qualify a diabetes warning on the album's cover. There are a couple of gnawing tracks -- &Serious& and a spiced up version of &We Will Rock You& -- but after finishing the album with the futuristically motivated &Battlestar& there is little doubt that these guys have what it takes to zap the musically worn. &Battlestar& has a sound and production that would have made a good idea for an entire album, one that could have made much better use of the title, ahem, &Millenium.&

Invincible

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