Review Summary: Just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worse.
Weezer has been through an odd evolution in their careers. Starting out producing studied, complex pop rock, they have reduced with every album. Pinkerton stripped down the Blue Album's sound to the base, the Green Album streamlined everything until there was no personality left, Maladroit cranked the amps while contributing less with the songwriting, while Make Believe and the Red Album both started Weezer's decline in parody.
Raditude is the dumbest piece of music to ever come from a band that has always lived on the edge of unintentional comedy. Horribly titled, Raditude make the Red Album look like a masterpiece, an even simpler set of songs than their last outing, delivering none of the trademark Weezer sound. The Red Album was bad, but had strong points. Raditude is bad all around. The opening track and lead single "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is the only pop hook to be found, the rest of the songs mired in a hip-hop veneer that buries the guitars in the background, when they bother to play them.
This is music for people who don't like music, industrial fluff without any talent or effort put into it. Lyrically idiotic songs about partying and the mall flash by without any of the energy that allowed 80's hair bands to get away with their cro-magnon wordplay. This is lazy music, made by a lazy band who know that one single will give them enough attention for another album cycle. Rivers and company have no interest in making meaningful records anymore, and Raditude is the end result. It is everything wrong with the industry, wrapped up in one shiny little package of junk.
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