★★★★★
The debut effort from O-Town, stars of ABC's reality series Making the Band, is the unremarkable novelty track "Liquid Dreams," overflowing with name-dropping lyrics: "I dream about a girl who's a mix of Destiny's Child/Just a little touch of Madonna's wild style/With Janet Jackson's smile." Perhaps it's all part of producer Clive Davis' plan to make his boy band famous by association ? bland singles like this won't do it. C+
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
As their creators would no doubt boast, art has absolutely
nothing to do with O-Town. The latest would-be heirs to the
boy-band throne were assembled in the crassest way
imaginable -- as part of the ABC series Making the Band. Part
reality TV and part soap opera, the show chronicled O-Town's
construction, from auditions of thousands through months of
coaching and practice for the finalists. Those five -- Jacob,
Trevor, Dan, Erik, and Ashley (Ashley...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
O-town don't have it easy. Whereas most boy bands present the finished, glossy recorded product first, these stars of the ABC reality-based TV show Making the Band need us to forget the sweat and fumbling we witnessed on the series, as we watched them individually audition for the band and formulate their plan for world pop domination. There is the real danger that O-Town would pale next to the Real World-like backstage drama of the show...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The reality TV series Making the Band made O-Town the original American Idols. But with prefab pop on the decline, the band most often dismissed as "manufactured" must be a little worried. How else to explain O2? In a sudden, misguided play for credibility, the album includes six songs cowritten by O-Towners, most of which are contrived attempts to inject rock and hip-hop into their timid sound...
- www.blender.com
2008-07-30
★★★★★
There was a time when pop-music Svengalis did everything in their power to conceal their illusion-manufacturing roles, diverting attention and credit to their more photogenic teen-dream creations. But in a media-obsessed environment where powerful executives like Lou Pearlman cultivate their own cults of personality, the line between creator and creation has been blurred...
- www.avclub.com
2008-07-30
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