The Singles Jukebox

“The album cover features frontman Ronnie Radke’s mugshot after being arrested for domestic assault in 2012.” well okay then!

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Ian Mathers: Oh, I hate everything about this.
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Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: “It’s just not right what they do to you at that publication” – my husband, upon hearing this song
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Harlan Talib Ockey: I could easily spend a thousand words picking apart this song, but to limit it to its most egregious sins: Radke’s fake Southern accent is offensively poor. The mix is glassy and hyper-compressed. The lyrics are beyond hope. “I may have drew blood / But that was true love”? Is this Falling In Reverse’s idea of clever country wordplay? Meanwhile, Jelly Roll sounds deeply uncomfortable, like he’s straining to be heard. The “wee-hoo” is musically unnecessary and, more subjectively, feels like getting hit in the face with a large glob of spit. If I didn’t know better, I would think this was a mean-spirited parody of both genres. 
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Iain Mew: Bro-country and nu-metal make for an excellent match, with sensibilities and sonics at just the right closeness to blend and contrast as needed. Identifying the semi-novelty singalong of “Heaven is a Halfpipe” as modeling the tone to bridge the two is even smarter. Hopefully someone will pick up those ideas and apply them to something with a chorus that isn’t simultaneously underwhelming and grating.
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Jonathan Bradley: I’m sorry guys, we’re not currently accepting applications for a new “Gives You Hell.”
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Will Adams: I have a relatively high tolerance for nu-metal that’s been polished within an inch of its life, but the choices made here suggest Ronnie Radke is as much of a troll musically as he is in real life. I could take the “to-gether, GETHURR, GETHUURRRR,” but the “wii-OOOH” was a bridge too far.
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Nortey Dowuona: Jeris Johnson, pop singer/songwriter; Cory Quistad, rock singer/songwriter/guitarist who rips a crazy solo; Tyler Smith aka MYTH, singer/songwriter/producer; Charles Kallaghan Massabo, producer; Jelly Roll in general. These folks are involved in the production of this song, and I hope that explains the score.
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Taylor Alatorre: Final-scene-of-Malcolm-in-the-Middle-where-it’s-revealed-that-Malcolm-has-to-pay-his-way-through-Harvard-by-working-part-time-as-a-janitor-in-order-to-fulfill-his-mom’s-dream-of-becoming-a-genuinely-populist-President-of-the-United-States-core. One of the guys in Citizen King went on to do mastering work for Madvillainy and Donuts; people can change, though Radke likely hasn’t. He does the necessary job here of making me mostly forget that I’m listening to Ronnie Radke, with a clutch assist from a more harmless kind of rogue. Come for the Jelly Roll, stay for the jiggy juggas.
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Mark Sinker: Larry, Moe and Curly are feuding. They’re jabbing each other in the eye — except then they’ve also banded together to jab YOU in the eye, while capering about. Maybe it’s funny when they do this to each other, but this song does it to you, and never stops. 
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Katherine St. Asaph: Rare Anthony Fantano W; I just wish the song was worse.
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