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Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever - Music Head - 29-11-2011 online listen slickly produced is an understatement dance/pop heavy already a smash hit here with the clip girl teens will love it 1.3 from the album - Tonight Tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlNFcT2aOE released Nov 29th, 2011 from all music Bio Hot Chelle Rae took shape in 2005, balancing the polished sounds of mainstream pop with energized, guitar-heavy dance-rock. Vocalist Ryan Keith Follese, guitarist Nash Overstreet, drummer Jamie Follese, and bassist Ian Keaggy had all grown up in musical households; the former three were raised by A-list Nashville songwriters, while Keaggy's father was a Grammy-nominated guitarist. As a result, the band wasted little time carving out a commercial sound, resulting in a label offer from Jive Records in 2008. Recording quickly commenced on a debut album, with both Butch Walker and Eric Valentine lending their help to the project, and the resulting Lovesick Electric appeared in 2009. The band returned in 2011 with Whatever, which featured a big hit single "Tonight Tonight." Album Review Hot Chelle Rae will never be mistaken for serious artists. Their second album, Whatever, sports a sound slicker than Turtle Wax and is light enough to blow away in a gentle breeze. The guitars sound as real as Velveeta, the vocals are seriously smooth and grit-free, and the songs are about as deep as a kiddie pool. These sound like criticisms, and they are if you are looking for “real” music played by guys who “mean it." However, these can be considered points in HCR's favor, considering they are a band that combines the strut of Maroon 5 with the easy swagger of old-school lunkheads like Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray; adds a tiny, tiny bit of emo emotion; uses every production trick available to even the least schooled producer; and packs every song with a huge singalong hook that even the strongest pop haters might find imprinted on their brains after hearing it twice in a mall. You don’t need grit or reality if that’s the kind of band you are; it would just get in the way. Instead, HCR unleash an album’s worth of poppy jams like “Tonight Tonight,” “Radio,” and “Downtown Girl” that will please the sing-into- your-hairbrush crowd, the bedroom dancers, the mall rats, and the occasional nostalgic old-timers who remember the age of “All Star” and “Every Morning” with fondness. It may not be a formula designed for critical acclaim or longevity, but pop music has always been exactly like this and HCR would make Bobby Vee, the Archies, and the New Radicals proud. Track Listing 1. I Like It Like That Feat. New Boyz 2. Tonight Tonight 3. Honestly 4. Keep You With Me 5. Radio Feat. Bei Maejor 6. Whatever 7. Forever Unstoppable 8. Why Don't You Love Me Feat. Demi Lovato 9. Downtown Girl 10. Beautiful Freaks 11. The Only One Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever - CRAZY-HORSE - 03-12-2011 just saw them play a track off this on Fallon...seemed alright to me?!