The Wanted: Are They Really Needed Let Alone Wanted?

The modern day boy band is The Wanted who take the past goofiness of NKOTB, NSYNC and the like and toss it in the crapper giving that bunk a good flush and maybe a courtesy flush to make sure its gone as best as it can be. This group does have upside by stealing dad's record collection and using it for inspiration.

Take the two singles released so far: All Time Low is a wonderful two-tempo affair – a slow song with a fast pulse – with clever lyrics and a cocksure sense of its own high worth. Heart Vacancy, on the other hand, is a rather more hangdog sort of a thing. It seems to be too fast and too slow, the lyrics are daft, and it clearly needs a few more harmonies to glue some of the bits of chorus together.

See here is the trouble with this group, they take what credible artists like Kings Of Leon, Maroon 5, Cold Play and so forth and try to have that sort of depth but with that grasp for serious artistry or majestic pomp rock they also have the inability in their craft to show that kind of maturity at all turns and you get gaps all through the album, albeit not Grand Canyon sized gaps.

Let’s Get Ugly deserves special applause then, for the sheer brass neck of taking the theme to The Good, The Bad & The Ugly by Ennio Morricone and writing a come-on song to a girl over the top. And they pull it off, too. Hopefully The Wanted’s second album will be even weirder, if only to protect the future of all boybandkind.

Those pop fans who've jumped onto the adult rock darlings previously mentioned will think this is just as good even though it's not even close. For what it is The Wanted are ok and I mean only ok. It's kinda like the smart teens boy band if that's even possible!