Every Second Counts

Obviously, with a little more consistency and a healthy dose of subtlety, the T’s can still go on to conquer the airwaves-whenever they do finally put it all together.

Power chords, lyrics laden with angst, and the kind of musical sensibilities that are all too common on the soundtracks of big-budget no-brainer American teen movies.

Perhaps I’m just too old to understand the allure but, as one slice of college rock-schlock sloops limply into another, it’s questionable whether we need the Plain White T’s’ stateside tripe at a time when our own generic batch of jingle-merchants are hovering smugly around the chart’s upper echelons.

In the end it’s probably best off letting the band explain it in their own words, as the song goes, ‘Hate is a strong word, but I really really really don’t like you.’