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Friday, March 29
The Indiana Daily Student

Really not that fun.

fun.

Sometime in their youth, the band members of fun. missed their opportunity to experiment with auto-tune and should recognize that it never be used in an album.

On their second album, “Some Nights,” fun. tries to fit in every gimmicky sound modifier possible. You can call it artistic, I call it annoying.

Lyrics such as “What have we done / Oh my god” in “It Gets Better” make me ask, “What have you done? When is it getting better?” Through the entire song, lead singer Nate Reuss’ voice is auto-tuned to the point where any emotion he might have tried to convey is covered by a robotic effect that competes with the lyrics.

On top of that, every song on the album tries to be the next teenage anthem. “We Are Young,” the album’s first single, already won us over as exactly that, but fun. wants to make every song on “Some Nights” meaningfully stand out.

It doesn’t work. And what’s left is fun.’s practice album, which should have never made it to shelves.

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