| Chris Brown – Graffiti | | | | to do anything to excite or innovate the genre and fine |
| If the entire assault and battery charges against his | | | | Allen floating along a little too comfortably. At least |
| then girlfriend, Rihanna hadn’t happened, this album | | | | Adam Lampert has the guts to throw in some glam |
| probably wouldn’t have been given such terrible | | | | and 70s hard rock influences into his record. Allen could |
| reviews. It’s not a very good album but it’s not | | | | have a good record in him if he broke free of his |
| a terrible album either. The fact is that it is just another | | | | boring, everyman image and actually wrote some |
| boring R&B album talking about money, clothes | | | | clever tunes. |
| and Mercedes parts that fails to address the situation | | | | Tokio Hotel – Humanoid |
| that Chris Brown finds himself in. Rihanna on the other | | | | I’m still waiting for this band to fall off the face of |
| hand took to the issue head on with her dark, | | | | the earth, and hopefully, with the critical hate pounded |
| experimental and introspective new record that was | | | | on this record, it is sooner rather than later. This ugly |
| released on the same day as Brown’s Graffiti. Too | | | | German band rode high on the teen-pop moment of |
| bad Brown didn’t use the negative publicity of the | | | | Disney’s Highschool Musical stars and the Jonas |
| incident to put out a unique record that wasn’t full | | | | Brothers, banking on their emo hair styles and piercings |
| of faceless and largely obnoxious R&B. | | | | to set them apart and endure them to the slightly more |
| Kris Allen – Kris Allen | | | | edgy teenagers. Their music is a shiny mix of |
| The American Idol runner-up is going to have a hard | | | | pop-punk and soaring wannabe emotional theatrics |
| time breaking out of this boring and likable pretty-boy | | | | that come off as cloying and robotic, but maybe that is |
| image that his people have boxed him into. There is | | | | the point. There are catchy melodies but these guys |
| nothing unique or special about his debut record, and its | | | | are going to have a tough time reconciling their image |
| biggest fault is that Allen doesn’t have much of a | | | | when they age a few years. |
| personality. The 13 soft rock tracks on the record fail | | | | |