After listening to their debut album, I don’t want to Meet The Vamps. The Vamps are a boy band from the U.K. who sing pop songs and were a hit back home before branching off in the U.S to open for Taylor Swift’s tour. Doesn’t that ring a bell. I thought that after the One Direction craze people would realize that boy bands have gone to death, but I guess their producer didn’t get the memo.

“Can We Dance” seemed particularly interesting to me for various reasons. It may have been the fact that it sounded like the lead singer, Bradley Simpson, was trying to shmooze some random stranger into doing the metaphorical tango with him. It could have been the fact that he seemed like he had been drunk while writing the lyrics because he sings  “I know I don’t know you,” then later sings things like  “My hearts not made for someone else.” Woah. I didn’t know that this random girl that you just met caused you to act like you are going to die without her. It seems kinda creepy if you ask me.

The song “Risk It All” just screams F.U.N.’s “We are Young.” The lyrics may be different, but the music was very similar, if not the same as the music in “We are Young.” The music starts off slow in the beginning then suddenly explodes with the chorus. The vocals during this point seemed similar to Nate Ruess. I just feel that they wanted their song to become a huge hit like “We Are Young.”

On the other hand “She Was The One” seemed to be the only song that I would be willing to listen to. The song felt sincere for once instead of the typical I ‘like’ you stuff.

The music video for the song  “Somebody To You” feat. Demi Lovato was comical and stereotypical to say the least. The entire song and video fit the theme of the album itself. It is the basic boy meets girl and boy wants to get in girl’s pants. It starts off with crashing waves and a girl on the beach. It then goes on to the band members singing. Singing while on the beach, singing while playing soccer, singing while playing with the girls. Then it takes a surprising twist. Demi Lovato comes out of nowhere and starts singing as well, but not with the band even though they are both singing the same lyrics. The weirdest part was that Lovato didn’t even appear to be singing to someone because she was either in the back of a truck alone, on the beach alone, and tangled in hung sheets alone, kinda like she was when she was in her music video “Skyscraper.” Then the song finally ended with the lead singer singing to a particular girl in the crowd of their mini concert as expected. It was a mashup of any beach themed boy band music video and Lovato’s “Skyscraper.”

The entire thing reminded me of why I stopped listening to pop music.

by ONA IGBINEDION