#2247 Babymetal - Metal Resistance

There's two obvious routes out of this album: to bristle at its manufactured idol-metal emptiness, or to get past the context and be taken by it's heedless, hooky momentum. I want to be won over, and at times it's grudgingly good fun. But attitude matters in rock, and the lack of credibility undercuts the riffs again and again, and they get less and less thrilling as the album piles them on 2.5/5