In 2010, Ronnie Radke stunned the music industry by embarking a comeback with his new main project, Falling in Reverse. The album Dying is Your Latest Fashion was released, but after many criticisms to just being a pissed album about Escape the Fate (Ronnie’s former band), it was a very good album. So in 2012, after Warped Tour, Falling In Reverse returned to the studio to record their second album. This album released June 18, and is called Fashionably Late. The first single “Alone” was released to fans on May 7 this year.
As a big fan of the first Falling in Reverse album (Literally I could play half of the songs on drums) I was excited when I heard a new album was coming out. I listened to the first track the day before I started writing this before proceeding to review the entire album. The first track is entitled “Bad Girls Club.” The songs basically sounds like a Bubble gum pop song you’d hear on a techno pop radio station. It sounds vaguely similar to the music style of Blood on the Dance Floor. To make it worse, once I got to the bridge of the song, it turned into a cheerleading anthem similar to the bridge of “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne. But worse. If that’s not enough, the lyrics in the song are pretty much corny and badly put together with such a lyric as “Follows me on twitter, Asking if I miss her, hash tag set me free.” Congratulations Ronnie Radke. You’re successfully the first (somewhat) metal artist to use the word hash tag in a song.
As for the rest of the album, I would say it is one-third metal, one-third rapping, one-third, what the @%$# is this? For the metal parts, all of the instruments sound very good. “Born to Lead” is arguably the best song on the album, mixing great riffs and drums,