Raditude

Pitchfork 4.5/10 Melodic sing-alongs, fuzz-guitar riffs-- Weezer are going back to basics, making music that sounds for (but also often by) 13-year-olds.

A.V. Club F Even for a guy who once admitted to having inappropriate relations with his fan mail, it’s an odd record—a personal statement without the person.

NME 3/5 It’s a shock, in 2009, to find this awkward, crabby outsider hurling himself headlong into the world of blockbuster pop, penning songs for Katy Perry and covering Lady Gaga's ‘Poker Face’ live – a version of which appears on the deluxe edition of this, Weezer’s seventh album.

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 The not-quite-ironic melancholy of “Can’t Stop Partying” may reflect a uniquely twisted relationship with his twisted audience. But from the sound of Raditude, Cuomo savors every minute of it.

All Music 3.5/5 It's Weezer's deft mixing of immediately hummable rock with lyrics that reveal Cuomo's own melancholy gaze on the pop landscape that makes Raditude a passionate surrender to growing up and a throw-your-arms-up-and-scream ride down the other side of the mid-life roller coaster.

Slant 0.5/5 Even the most dogged members of the Weezer fanbase will struggle to mount a shred of defense for such an abhorrent cocktail of deluded lyricism and indolent musicianship.

Pop Matters 1/10 In the end, it doesn’t matter if you look at this as a Weezer album or just a pop album, because the result is the same: Raditude is not art.

Spectrum Culture 70% Most of Cuomo’s past work shows a man wracked with self-doubt and angst but an album like Raditude stands as a therapeutic step forward.

Beats Per Minute 39% You see, he’s trying to be a meta-pop-star, and every airbrushed, force-fed, and sterilized note on Raditude is simply an intellectual exercise.