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- Some Nights
- ATLANTIC
- 2012
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Fun's We Are Young must be one of the most infectious singles of the year: an ode to defiant, youthful optimism with the cliched but Empire State-sized chorus, "Set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun." In trying to repeat the formula, their second album rampages along with exuberant tunes underpinned by military-strength percussion. The title track finds singer Nate Ruess unveiling his inner Freddie Mercury. Carry On manages to combine a teenage pop anthem with the maturity of Big Apple elders Paul Simon and Billy Joel, and hurls in a big choir and Slash-type wailing solo for good measure. Ruess is not a young man hampered by subtleties, and sounds weirdly gleeful on songs that deal with betrayal, loneliness and his mother's death. Such boundless enthusiasm could be teeth-grating even without Stars' overuse of Auto-Tune, but it's hard to dislike such catchy tunes and lyrics that are funny, sincere and oddly moving: "Some nights I rule the world … but most nights I stay in and think about my Mum."
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