Boys Like Girls

Waiting more than two years between albums can be risky, what with music fans' ever-shorter attention spans. Even more so if your audience consists of the finicky tweens-to-teens demographic. So, the pressure is on for Boys Like Girls whose second album(title TBA, due 2009) will follow their eponymous, gold-plus 2006 disc.

It helps that Boys Like Girls have been all over the radio during that time, since the group was a wall-to-wall, radio-ready feast of pop hooks when they first gained exposure. They also toured with kindred spirits and (somewhat) elder statesmen Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy (not to mention Avril Lavigne, Cute Is What We Aim For, Metro Station and Cobra Starship), and hit the package tours, most notably the 2007 Vans Warped Tour. They went on MTV's Total Request Live and reached #1, backed up Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly) on her upcoming album, and put out a DVD, Read Between the Lines. So by 2008, they already had a strong foundation for sophomore success.

Time will tell, and if past is prelude, then Boys Like Girls will most likely crank out another dozen of those pop-perfect genre tunes, beat the sophomore slump and perhaps go platinum.

–Randy Harward