I'm not down with Tom Petty, the dude, which is maybe my problem. Lookit this smug fuck on the cover of this album. Such a fuckin' Willbury, all those overrated shitheels.
The Heartbreakers, they're fine. The songwriting, solid. But there's an empty swagger here I bristle at, some put on Police-sexiness, that -- no thanks.
Breakdown's got its thing, and I can't argue with American Girl's timeless hooks. But man, Petty seems like a shit to me, downhome but keeping us all at arm's length and downward, and that undercuts the whole thing. It's some Phil Collins pussy-reaching shit and I'm not with it 3/5
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