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What Does Sellout Mean?
Date of Review: Jun 29, 2000
First of all, I want to make it clear that I think that there are some remarkably good songs on this album. John Reznick has found a lyrical strain that contains painfully romantic lines that women love to hear. The melodies are strong and the songs are hard not to sing along with. But this is NOT the Goo Goo Dolls.
In fairness to their long time fans, this band should have changed names. Anyone who had purchased any of their prior albums knows that there was a huge change in sound and focus for this album. The stylistic change is so extreme, a name change would have been entirely reasonable.
I bought my first Goo Goo Dolls album in 1990. "Hold Me Up" was one of the best albums I had ever purchased, and it had an acoustic ballad closing the set. But that album was recorded by a power-pop, nearly punk trio. The same could be said for the next two albums. And each album had an acoustic track.
Nothing on Dizzy rocks in the way this band's previous material did. Nothing. The band changed, they grew up, they matured. After 5 albums of punk pop, they churned out a release of nearly adult contemporary tunes. This album made them superstars, and they sold a lot of albums. But I would be surprised if any of their long time fans even listen to this CD. I don't. This is not the kind of music I listen to.
