Track Listing 1. Heart Heart Heartbreak 2. Love Drunk 3. She's Got a Boyfriend Now 4. Two is Better Than One - (featuring Taylor Swift) 5. Contagious 6. Real Thing 7. Someone Like You 8. Shot Heard 'Round the World, The 9. First One, The 10. Chemicals Collide 11. Go
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Taylor Swift | | Distributor: | Sony Music Entertainment | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Martin Johnson (vocals, guitar); Paul DiGiovanni (guitar); John Keefe (drums). Audio Mixer: Tom Lord-Alge. Recording information: Right Hook Studios, New York, NY; Fresh Kills Music, New York, NY; Van Howes Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photographer: Clay Patrick McBride. Boys Like Girls' self-titled debut album was an unexpected success, eventually going gold. Devoid of any hit singles, the album seemed to catch on because it was a perfect distillation of the emo pop sound with no rough edges to scare people away. For the follow-up, 2009's LOVE DRUNK, the band sticks to the same basic template of super slick, glossily produced emo pop with uptempo songs that sound stadium singalong-friendly and ballads that seem destined to melt teenage girls' hearts. The difference this time is that the songs are better written and hookier, especially the rockers. "She's Got a Boyfriend Now" and "Contagious" sound like 2000s updates of the classic '80s sound of pop/rockers like Bryan Adams and Rick Springfield; "Real Thing" even conjures up the red leather and headbanded ghost of Loverboy!
Editorial Reviews Boys Like Girls bolsters LOVE DRUNK with new sounds and style shifts....The heart-on-its-sleeve 'Two Is Better Than ONe' is a sure-fire hit. Billboard
Three years after their hit debut, they're a little older but just as emphatic....The world is these guys' post-prom party. -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly
3 stars out of 5 -- Boys Like Girls are capable of creating sugary pop adrenaline. Alternative Press
3 stars out of 5 -- The second album from these gold-selling Boston guys is as arena-ready as any record you'll hear all year....[With] sugar-shot melodies. Rolling Stone
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