All the elements are here to beat Train and Creed to the top of the CHR heap. 'Jump (The Velvet Rope)' even assures listeners that guys with multinational label deals are dreamers just like them-even when it's you who's stuck on the wrong side of that velvet rope. Most of the songs bristle with so much working-class romance and blue-collar hope that they just might make Springsteen and Mellencamp blush if they weren't delivered with such zealous, irony-free urgency. Their music may be the pop equivalent of KFC, but these lads do marketing right.
Indeed, the band's initial single, the maddeningly catchy 'Walk with Me,' debuted not on MTV, but on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions. Celebrating the classic soap opera Passions. The New Jersey trio's debut boasts that 'every song counts.' Judging from Neal Avron's slick, über-hip production, some nigh-perfect hooks, and vocalist Seven's overwrought, Marc Anthony-meets-Bono-at-the-Eurovision-Song-Finals vocal sense, that sounds like a promise that may turn out to be both figurative and literal. While other trends fall by the way, corporate rock lives on the ropes, an assessment that should hardly cause Seven and the Sun any sleepless nights just ask Foreigner. The coast of Maine may be a great place for lovers, but don’t go there in search of Passions. ‘General Hospital’ and ‘Passions’ Star Lindsay Hartley On Her Fateful Journey from Soaps to Becoming a Directing Maven Lindsay Hartley talks to us about directing Romeo and Juliet Killers for.
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