Search - Joey Mcintyre :: Meet Joe Mac

Joey McIntyre is having an identity crisis. He's no longer a boy-band balladeer, and he wants the music industry to know that he's grown up. At the same time, he knows that his most likely audience is watching "Total Request Live" on MTV every afternoon. His attempt to impress both groups fails with the misguided Meet Joe Mac. The album is a hodgepodge of musical styles and influences. The first single, "Rain," is a mid-tempo inspirational ballad that smells distinctly of matchbox twenty's reject pile. "If I Run into You" is a terrible Green Day rip-off. "The National Anthem of Love" has the simplest lyrics this side of "Happy Birthday" (and is only slightly more tuneful). Even more appalling, McIntyre actually raps in the amateurish "NYC Girls." The only track that belongs on this disc is "Easier," an Elton John-esque love song that really exploits the power of McIntyre's voice. Joey McIntyre has a great voice, but his material really couldn't be worse. --Courtney Kemp