Raditude

Weezer - Raditude
Critic Score
Based on 25 reviews
2009 Ratings: #900 / 923
User Score
2009 Rank: #325
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
Entertainment Weekly

Raditude still feels like the product of Rivers Cuomo, who’s no less unnerved by girls than he was before his 15 years of rock stardom.

70
AllMusic

It's Weezer's deft mixing of immediately hummable rock with lyrics that reveal Cuomo's own melancholy gaze on the pop landscape that makes Raditude a passionate surrender to growing up and a throw-your-arms-up-and-scream ride down the other side of the mid-life roller coaster.

70
Rolling Stone

The not-quite-ironic melancholy of “Can’t Stop Partying” may reflect a uniquely twisted relationship with his twisted audience. But from the sound of Raditude, Cuomo savors every minute of it.

70
Spectrum Culture

Most of Cuomo’s past work shows a man wracked with self-doubt and angst but an album like Raditude stands as a therapeutic step forward.

60
Consequence of Sound

Raditude is not for anyone looking for anything serious. It’s goofy; it has slick production, and it doesn’t hold a candle to the first two classic Weezer albums.

60
Sputnikmusic

Raditude may not be a return to form but it's definitely a step up, hitting the fun, power pop sound that Make Believe and The Red Album struggled to achieve.

60
SPIN

Accepted on these terms, Raditude might be enjoyed for what it is — extremely catchy, fist-pumping pop — and for what it represents: escapism. Still, its flaws are obvious; the second half sags, the ballads bore, and weirdly, it’s too short.

60
NME
It’s a shock, in 2009, to find this awkward, crabby outsider hurling himself headlong into the world of blockbuster pop, penning songs for Katy Perry and covering Lady Gaga's ‘Poker Face’ live – a version of which appears on the deluxe edition of this, Weezer’s seventh album.
60
musicOMH
Let’s take the obvious: There’s an airborne dog on the cover and Rainn Wilson supplied the title. We couldn’t really have expected greatness, could we?
58
A.V. Club
Even for a guy who once admitted to having inappropriate relations with his fan mail, it’s an odd record—a personal statement without the person.
45
Pitchfork
Melodic sing-alongs, fuzz-guitar riffs-- Weezer are going back to basics, making music that sounds for (but also often by) 13-year-olds.
40
No Ripcord
It seems as if Rivers Cuomo has realized that his ability to craft instant power pop classics is waning, and he is shooting for the so-ridiculous-it-works album.
39
Paste
If these songs were fun, memorable little tunes, Weezer’s conscious shift from irony-loving nerd-rockers to irony-loving radio hounds would be palatable.
39
Beats Per Minute

You see, he’s trying to be a meta-pop-star, and every airbrushed, force-fed, and sterilized note on Raditude is simply an intellectual exercise.

30
Drowned in Sound

Raditude ... is in no way unique in Weezer’s recent career. When it’s good, it’s a surprise; when it’s bad, it’s incomprehensibly atrocious.

20
Coke Machine Glow

Raditude is thoroughly extraneous. It is Weezer’s worst album.

10
Slant Magazine
Even the most dogged members of the Weezer fanbase will struggle to mount a shred of defense for such an abhorrent cocktail of deluded lyricism and indolent musicianship.
10
PopMatters

In the end, it doesn’t matter if you look at this as a Weezer album or just a pop album, because the result is the same: Raditude is not art.

JoaoSantos
40

I just did sex so hard to this girl. She was moaning and stuff and i did sex so hard and so good with her. She was all "Please have good sex with me" and I said back "Yeah, I'm going to really sex you so great lady" and she's like "Thanks". It was so good and so hot and we both loved making a sex on all the positions. At the end I was all "Hey, I'm going to finish sex now" and she said "Yes, that would be nice if you finished so hard on that ... read more

BradTasteMusic
24

This album is lame. Just lame. Everything about this just screams LAAAAAAAME

However the guy who gave this a 100. Look at his profile

100

HOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

meteormelee
38

i have nightmares about raditude dog

RA1nE
20

Stopped partying the second I put this on :(
Weezer but not weezy.

58

do I need to justify myself?

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