TOP OF THE POPS杂志4颗星推荐:“非你被邪恶的皇后关在迷雾森林
中的象牙塔,否则你很难不被这群可爱又疯狂的摇滚小子迷得神魂颠倒!···
他们的音乐让男孩团显得衰弱无力!”
NME杂志8分优评:“这是张关于青少年的超流行专辑,是近年来专属于
青少年最棒的一张专辑!”
Q杂志3星肯定:“融合英国男孩偶像团与美国庞克摇滚团的魅力···也许他
们完美的舞台跳跃动作会招致批评,但绝对是创意十足的大赢家!”
Busted's eponymous debut made a pretty big splash in the trio's native U.K., where its next-generation sound found immediate favor with kids stuck in a growth spurt between Boyzone and blink-182 allegiances. Principals Mattie Jay, James Bourne, and Charlie Simpson slide smoothly between material like &Psycho Girl& and &Losing You& — dull teen pop ballads with the sickeningly overwrought vocals typical of the genre — and relatively more creative stuff that punches up the formula with pop-ternative production and smirking, yet still squeaky clean lyrical witticisms. At best (lead single &What I Go to School For&; the mindless future frolic of &Year 3000&) it's BBMak with better cheekbones; at worst, Busted is a neutered Sum 41. Sure, &Crash and Burn& is stippled with muted electric guitar riffs and an amplified, almost-the-real-thing drum machine. But its spurned suitor sob story (&I asked you to dance at the disco/BUT YOU SAID NO!&) is right out of the pop star handbook. At least those guys in Sum 41 rhymed &El Niño& with &drinking in the back of an El Camino&. This is the biggest problem with Busted. While they sing about undressing foxy schoolteachers, and insult rivals for trying to look like James Van Der Beek, the outrageousness seems disingenuous given how much of their debut sounds like Westlife warmed over.