Oh well, "Whatever," never mind

Hold on to your seats. There’s yet another poppy, four-man band that wears women’s pants and has hair that swooshes. So. Groundbreaking.

Hot Chelle Rae has been around since 2005, dropping a lackluster album called “Lovesick Electric” in 2009 that produced two crappy singles: “Bleed,” a ballad with vampire puns, and “I Like to Dance,” which by its blatant title doesn’t need explaining.
The band returned home after a few years of touring and started writing about the sophisticated stuff: hoes on the road, long-distance relationships and how life sometimes just doesn’t go your way.

The track “Whatever” describes this perfectly. “When nothing’s ever going your way/ when you sit out of luck and you’re feeling stuck, say, ‘So what, whatever.’” This light-hearted poppy tune is quite catchy and encourages you to give the finger to the world ­— the perfect song to play after life screws you over.

Other tracks include dancehall hits “I Like It Like That” and “Tonight, Tonight” that we’ve all heard a few too many times, along with a few songs about that icky love stuff such as “Keep You With Me.”  
 
In respectable amounts, this album’s catchiness is charming. However, after too many listens, the guys in Hot Chelle Rae start to sound like annoying kids complaining about their problems.