RSSBallas Hough Band Break Through with BHB
Mar 12
BHB, the debut album by the Ballas Hough Band, is actually thoroughly entertaining pop confection. I don’t have the faintest clue who Mark Ballas and Derek Hough are, though their bio puts them on Dancing with the Stars. So dancers are making a record, but in this case it works.
Don’t mistake BHB for anything other than another mindless boy band pop album, but for all that, it’s fun in way mainstream radio just isn’t these days. There are enough guitar grooves and playful harmonies to keep it interesting and the boys steal from every pop star of the last thirty years, but it’s done well. Devastated, the album’s best track, has the faint hints of Maroon 5 and New Kids on the Block (old school NKOTB that is) and the line “look what God created, she leaves me devastated.” Birthday has elements of King of Pop (old school Michael Jackson that is).
BHB is light on the ballads, and you’ll probably want to skip them anyway (Longing For is just okay). It’s a tight set, mostly energetic pop fodder that ends quickly but is fully satisfying. Though the last track, Underwater, is just another unmemorable dreary ballad. But you know, if you’re planning a breakthrough into pop music from dancing, you could do a lot worse than this for a debut.
Mar 13, 2009 @ 02:00:05
Aparently the record company knew they had to promote them as dancers to sell this cd.