Sire / Wea
2007
Hook Me Up
About This Album
Based on the vampy, electro-pop title track and its accompanying video -- which features the Origliasso twins dressed in school uniforms (a teen pop tradition dating back at least to Britney Spears' debut almost a decade earlier), clutching each other in the corridors of a drab, Orwellian academy -- it would seem that the Veronicas decided to take a page from the t.A.T.u. playbook for their follow-up to The Secret Life of the Veronicas. That would be only fitting, considering that the sisters helped compose one of t.A.T.u.'s biggest hits, "All About Us," and it's somewhat accurate insofar as Hook Me Up is a far more electronic, dance-based record than their sterling pop/rock debut. There's also the shoutily awkward "I wanna kiss a girl/I wanna kiss a boy" bridge of "Take Me on the Floor," and a decidedly histrionic tone to most of the material (the album's working title was "Overdramatic," which would been entirely appropriate), although that's not exactly a new development for them. But whereas t.A.T.u. are an unabashedly manufactured outfit whose appeal is essentially intertwined with their (or their handlers') knack for image and media manipulation, the Veronicas -- who seem to be in control of their own career to an impressive extent for a pair of 22-year-old girls -- are the rare teen pop act for whom visual presentation is almost entirely incidental.
Track List (try tracks 7,9,11,12 and 13)

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