Record Label: Universal Records
Genre: Mall Punk
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I don’t know, are Budweiser and Subway Presents Junior as Heard On NFL Network and ESPN famous yet? Sounds like they want to be.

This is polished power pop/mallpunk, designed for extreme sports shows and commercials for MTV reality shows. You know, high-energy pop rock for jocks.

Some similarly sounding bands are catchy or appealing, but Junior doesn’t come close to the Tony Hawkish punk bands they’re ripping off of. They’re flat and uninteresting and their pandering is pathetic. They actually have songs about NASCAR and dirt bike riding – both positive. Other songs include a weak cover of Poison’s Talk Dirty To Me and the expected, contrived song about wanting to be a rock star called, “Rock Star.” Because as Sum 41 has taught us, there is nothing cooler than ironically channeling glam rock.

It appears even lame mallpunk fans have taste. This CD came out four months ago and their sales rank on Amazon is about 370,000 in Music. So no, Junior, even with all your corporate sponsorship, photo ops in front of American flags, and lame-ass songs about rock stardom, you are not famous yet, and let’s hope you never will be. (Sorry, was that too mean?)

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