Little Yachty - Sugar Ray

This is an album, hell, this is a band that I would never listen to off my own free will. And that can only mean one thing: this album is reviewed by request. A friend of mine is a fan of Sugar Ray, and when he first heard about this record he immediately requested that we listen to it together and we share our opinion of it with each other. Now before I get into it, let me tell you that I listened to the entire record, front to back, while this guy, a FAN of Sugar Ray, could only sit through the first 30 seconds of each track before skipping to the next one. If that tells you everything you need to know about this record, feel free to skip to the bottom of this post.

A major red flag for me going into it, actually, three major red flags, were as follows: 

Red Flag #1: Sugar Ray is a shitty band and they have a new album.

Red Flag #2: They named it Little Yachty, after a shitty rapper.

Red Flag #3: Mark McGrath, the lead singer of Sugar Ray, had said in an interview that he was very excited about this new album because it was unlike anything Sugar Ray had done before.

To be perfectly candid, it has been a few weeks since I sat through Little Yachty, so I do not remember everything that there is to know about the record. That said, any self-respecting blogger would listen to the album again before reviewing it, so it is fresh in his or her mind at the time of writing the blog post. However, to paraphrase my mother, life is too short to listen to bad music. Life is especially too short to willingly listen to bad music a second time, knowing full well how bad it truly is. And while it may seem unprofessional to simply call an album "bad," it is the full truth. My buddy had nothing good to say about it, simply stating "I wasted six minutes on that, got real bummed out, and listened to "Fly" until I felt better." I myself wasted the full 37-ish minutes listening to the whole damn thing. 

I will give them credit where credit is due, they can play, and Mark can sing. That is more than I can say for myself. However, they use their talents to create a long-overdue record that is truly forgettable, and they top it off with a cover of "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" that the world really didn't need. I think it's time that Mark and the rest of the world realize that there was a time for Sugar Ray, and it was over before the twin towers fell.

Little Yachty - Sugar Ray

7 - 26 - 2019

1. Highest Tree

2. Coconut Bay

3. Good Good Lovin

4. Trouble

5. Sunday Love

6. Perfect Mornings

7. All Of The Time

8. What The World Needs

9. Make It Easy

10. Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

11. California Gold

Favorite Track: uh... Coconut Bay... I guess...?

Least Favorite Track: The rest of them.

Rating: 1.6