Are the Jonas Brothers Better Than Weezer?
It's actually sort of awesome. We didn't want to admit it, but really it is. Just listen to "Shelf," the track above. Not bad, right? In fact, we're quite ready to preemptively declare it 2008's best power-pop song about a home-storage implement. If Rivers Cuomo had written a single this great (assuming he could still do such a thing), would it not have improved the overall quality of any of the three most recent Weezer albums by at least 900 percent? When was the last time Fountains of Wayne wrote anything this catchy? Surely the Jonas Brothers had co-writers, and, admittedly, not all tracks on Longer are this well constructed … but doesn't this sound way better than anything you'd assumed they were capable of? And can anything prevent their now-imminent world domination? We doubt it!
Earlier: Know Your Jonas Brothers Overlords

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