There’s part of me than wants to hate this record, and there’s a part of me that wants to hate it.
Milking the success of gently amusing and sexually liberating power-pop single, ‘Take It Off’, Spend The Night lines up roughly ten or more shots of the same liquor. And when I say the same, I mean the same. Without any real discernible joins between the songs, it’s debatable whether there is in fact 14 songs or whether it’s just one long and arduous power-pop nightmare.
Without either the guile, the wit or indeed the songs of former female alternatives like The Go Gos, The Donnas are rolled out on some flimsy assurance that being a girl can be sexy, smart and sharp. On the strength of it here, being a girl is a second class experience all round.
Occupying a tidy niche in a healthy and fecund market is one thing. Making records is another. It makes great business sense, but little or no real sense to the rest of us. If you’re 13 however and you have a box of tissues at your disposal, the Donnas will certainly get you through adolescence, even if they actually fail to make it through another album.
Don’t want to go to the movies? Don’t want to go to the mall? Then don’t go. It’s really that simple.