Are the Jonas Brothers Better Than Weezer?

With today's release of the Jonas Brothers' A Little Bit Longer, and last night's completion of the band's sold-out three-night run at Madison Square Garden, tin can there be any dubiety that the much-feared Jonaspocalypse is last upon us? No. So, as part of our ongoing larger-than-life effort to prepare our readers for life in a post-Jonas world, we procured a copy of Longer (we won't aver where from, lest the Jonases dispatch their anti-piracy ninjas to Vulture HQ), and, friends, we have some truly awful news for you this afternoon.

It's actually sort of awesome. We didn't want to accept it, merely really it is. Just listen to "Shelf," the track above. Not bad, right? In fact, we're quite ready to preemptively declare it 2008's best power-pop strain about a home-storage implement. If Rivers Cuomo had written a single this great (assuming he could still do such a thing), would it not have improved the overall quality of any of the three most recent Weezer albums by at least 900 percent? When was the last time Fountains of Wayne wrote anything this catchy? Surely the Jonas Brothers had co-writers, and, admittedly, non all tracks on Longer are this well constructed � just doesn't this sound way better than anything you'd assumed they were capable of? And can anything prevent their now-imminent reality domination? We doubt it!

Earlier: Know Your Jonas Brothers Overlords

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