Anthem for Hot Topic

Well, if anyone was wondering if Good Charlotte still sucks, take one guess. \nKarma's a bitch, because we're still forced to be subjected to this trash disguised as legitimate music. This is their fourth release in their 11-year existence and it seems like an eternity of headaches.\nFrom the get-go, we find the boys trading in pseudo-punk-rock guitars for dance beats that seemed to have been vomited out by a sleazy executive who works at Epic. Well, the pop-punk thing didn't work, so let's try something even worse. The new sound doesn't help their cause. It's the same old manufactured defecation.\nIt seems a little ironic when Joel Madden sings about plastic, shallow and empty people on "Misery." And if things couldn't get worse, the single off Good Morning Revival, titled "The River" (where I'll drown to stay away from listening to this), features none other than the pussified lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold, M. Shadows. Please don't make me listen to City Of Evil again.\n"Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" sounds like The Faint, if they sucked. Madden's voice sounds like a guy who got kicked in the nuts and they overdubbed it to sound natural. \nThere's very little variety in these 13 tracks. Every song sounds like the anthem to Hot Topic and Target. And with lyrics like, "Take a look at my life, all black. Take a look at my clothes, all black," you'd think you were listening to something a gothic, DDR-playing teenage outcast would write in her diary. But these guys are damn near 30!\nThis is the worst thing I've heard so far this year. I'd recommend it to 12-year-olds who want to get made fun of and people who can't think for themselves. Even the most masochistic of people will find themselves bashing their heads against the wall until they're out like a light bulb.