OK Go

Grade:

C

Over-pretentious pop, make it stop. OK Go opens your mouth and jams syrupy lyrics on top of a plateful of Weezer chords down your throat without offering anything to wash it down with.

OK Go· away?

Sound Sample

OK Go - Get Over It

Offical Site

http://www.okgo.net

The songs on this album ooze gushy lyrics sprinkled with flowered breaks and candy-coated riffs.

You might suffer tooth decay if these sweeter-than-thou tunes are left unchecked. It's not that the lyrics are too optimistic, with downright perplexed and frustrated lines about being "selfish," "scared" and "unprepared" on "Bye Bye Baby."

It's just that the band tries too hard to sound overly radio friendly, like the "Bye Bye Baby" part of the same song sounds like *NSync dubbed the vocals.

It is too much, too quick. This album may be a hit, however, and sell lots and lots of copies. It does have a slew of potential marketable singles.

The lead-off "Get Over It" is already on many radio stations and MTV.

This band could be huge. For this listener, however, to truly be able to relate to these unrelentingly jovial songs, many Ecstasy tablets will need to be ingested while enjoying a car ride in the hills of Utopia during the first Sunday of spring. "Get, get, get, get over it," one of the band's three vocalists sings.

Indeed.