The Jonas Brothers May Have Watched “Clueless” Recently
I had high hopes for the latest song to leak from the Jonas Brothers’ forthcoming album, “Tonight,” when it opened with what sounded like a ’90s-ska-inspired guitar line, complete with cascading synthesizers providing a melodic counterpoint. After that, it veers off into slightly more straightforward pop-rock territory, but it’s got one of those bridges–you know the type: the melody drops out, the vocals and lyrics become a bit more sincerely tortured, and the final seconds are designed for maximum fist-raising/unironic use in an upcoming episode of SportsCenter–that made me applaud the sheer brazenness the brothers, who are the only credited writers on the song, put into their songcraft. [YouTube]
