The Blender piece made my head spin, but I’ll take it for the stars. It was like an Instructable on how to defend your love of the Jonas Brothers, ironically! Sigh. Hipsters.

The All Music review is also praising and Billboard wasn’t uberthrilled, but was totally reasonable and fundamentally got the point. And so far their metacritic rating is in the green (even while counting some slams and blatantly ignoring some big praise from several papers).

Just. Buy it.

@Nunya B: Mudwrestle you for him.

Why not publish a bit from the Entertainment Weekly review? That was a bigger rave than Rolling Stone:

[www.ew.com]

Last Word: “The album really has only one true, through-and-through ballad – the closing title song, a tune Nick wrote about being hospitalized for diabetes, which comes off as surprisingly matter-of-fact and unsentimental. Several more upbeat numbers bear comely choruses that suggest they might have been conceived as ballads, but rather than simply indulge worshipful lasses who’d probably gladly sway their arms to goop, the boys can’t help but keep credibly rocking out. For that, Jonas Brothers, the parents of the world salute you…and, possibly, secretly burn copies of their daughters’ CDs to play on their way to work. B+ “

@Nunya B: Don’t feel bad for them…I’ve been reading their recent concert and album reviews with interest and even the meh, small paper reviews are more respectful (if backhanded) than ever.