The Rosenbergs? new album, “Mission: You” is like praline ice cream. It?s hard to like and most people would do fine without it.

How did the Rosenbergs get a record deal that allowed them to make a second album.

The first time I listened to this album, it automatically lost points on originality. There are enough ‘wannabe -The-Monkees’ groups in America. Also, it was a little tooshiny-happy-people for me.

Rosenbergs sound like a band that Cher would like, from the movie, “Clueless” starring Alicia Silvertone. A similarity to Weezer crossed my mind while listening to this album, but at least Weezer had good lyrics.

With the Rosenbergs, we have lyrics peppered with the three ‘Cs’: corniness, confusion and the sad fact that the lead singer can not sing.

The eighth track on the album, called “Fast Asleep” is about the summer and how he missed it. The corniness factor comes in with the lyrics: “Girlsin the sun, ants in the sand, beach blankets, she yells cuz he?s in a band.” It sounds too much like the Beach Boys.

The first track on “Mission: You” is called “Sucking on a Plum,” and frankly, I do not know what the point of this song is and the confusion is set because the lyrics areStrange. “If you and me have sex, do we keep it all together? I hear your dog?s named Rex. Did you knit him a sweater?” Did David Fagin, lead singer and writer for theband, write these lyrics because they had meaning, or did they rhyme and sounded neat? I am thinking the latter.

Fagin did write one decent song on this album, the last track titled “Overboard.” This song is about a woman that used a man and how the man wants her to decide if shewants to be with him. Fagin?s winning lyrics are “Open up wide, i?m overboard. Maybe I was just a novelty. Open up wide. You decide where you want to be.”

Unfortunately, there is something about Fagin?s voice that annoys me. He sounds like a cross between Liam Gallegher and an alien or a computerized voice.

All in all, the Rosenbergs? Mission: You is not impressing. Like I said, it is hard to like and most people would do fine without it, I know I can.