Album Review | Good Charlotte - Youth Authority

In the wake of the current late nineties/early aughties revival we have been enjoying a hit new record by Blink 182 and have been running around our cities trying to avoid getting flattened by cars in an attempt to catch Pokemon on our phones. What a time to be alive! With all of this silliness and nostalgia as a fun distraction from the daily grind we could probably just keep piling on, right? That's what the Madden boys of Good Charlotte thought too, so here they come. "Wonder Twin powers activate! Form of: stale chips." The entirety of Youth Authority sounds like it was recorded by a bunch of guys in pinstripe suits rebelling against themselves by continuing to wear runny guy-liner and mumbling under their breath about how they can't make it to Hot Topic in time to buy that cool new graphic tee for their "kid" because they have to stay late to finishing collating files. There is no fun to be had here. This is a cynical look behind the curtain of well-to-do burn out rockstars skewering others for not keeping it real (40 oz. Dream) while seeming to forget that they themselves jumped from scene to scene so much the floor may as well have been hot lava. This is not new nor nostalgic. This is a bummer. Way to go, Doublemint bums. 

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