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All Music Guide

Ultimately, 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.

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Entertainment Weekly

Raditude still feels like the product of Rivers Cuomo, who's no less unnerved by girls than he was before his 15 years of rock stardom.

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Boston Globe

Instead of trying to divine the line between earnest and ironic, Weezer fans should just sit back and enjoy what works here. And like every Weezer record, plenty does.

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Rolling Stone

His willingness to make fun of his psychosexual damage only makes it more poignant.

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The New York Times

Raditude sounds like a high-stakes game of chicken, and the intellectual gamesmanship becomes more satisfying than the music.

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Alternative Press

Raditude seems intent on establishing itself as a now album, sacrificing any sort of cohesive vibe for a pop-friendly disc designed for car stereos to be turned to 11.

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musicOMH.com

Overall, this one's largely forgettable, and plays primarily as a jokey--if not well produced--one-off continuation of The Red Album.

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Spin

Old-school Weezer fans won't like it, and neither will blog-rock acolytes. But that's the point. Raditude is the murderous revenge of the middlebrow.

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New Musical Express

Given what we know about Cuomo’s eccentric inner world, it’s hard not to find those dazzlingly perfect melodies kind of hollow.

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Prefix Magazine

Sonically, the lean disc is more in line with Weezer’s recent work and the overall mood is playful--with plenty of lyrical references to a radder era.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Hooks only go so far, and outside of 'Put Me Back Together' and 'I Don’t Want To Let You Go,' Cuomo doesn’t appear interested in propping them up with human emotions.

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Los Angeles Times

The weird aftertaste of Raditude isn't that Cuomo has so surrendered the oddball charm of his band's first two albums, though. It's that his late-career pursuit of mindless, opulent fun is so transparent that it almost taps a deeper vein of interior sadness than anything on "Pinkerton."

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Pitchfork

Raditude doesn't have that stench of minimal calculation on it; if anything, it's as earnest as the famously confessional Pinkerton, just written by someone whose age doesn't match his POV.

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No Ripcord

Weezer disappoints again. The rest of the tracks are, for the most part, more throwaway power-pop in the vein of the "Red Album."

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Sputnikmusic

The dressing is a little different this time around; a few more jokes, a couple catchy tunes (this is most definitely not the worst Weezer album ever), but once again Weezer are content with churning out sugary pop tunes that go down easy and unimpressively.

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NOW Magazine

Whatever the case, Ratitude is both a clunker and a fitting end to a decade in which Weezer continuously spiralled downward.

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Paste Magazine

Raditude is an album of surface appeal--there’s no heart beating inside these plasticized tunes.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Raditude is not a great album or even an interesting one.

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Drowned In Sound

In general, the choruses are forgettable, the guitars are woefully exaggerated, and the quirkiness that made Weezer a band to be cherished now seems forced and stale.

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Dot Music

Driving yet jaunty guitars abound and backing chants fill the required spaces, yet it all comes across too much like a sub-par parody of their former selves.

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cokemachineglow

Raditude is thoroughly extraneous. It is Weezer’s worst album.

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Slant Magazine

Raditude is a thematically vacant and sonically uninspired collection of ditties tailor-made for mainstream radio; it consistently fringes on unlistenable.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 70 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Robert T gave it a10:
Great, great album. Best one since Maladroit in 2002 (Maladroit was also considered to be pretty generic and underwhelming upon release as well). I predict the reaction of Raditude will be like Maladroit where people will look back and consider it a great rock album, but not held to as high regard as Pinkerton (still their magnus opus).

Joey B gave it a6:
It's alright, and has some good songs, Weezer fans should get it.

Joseph A gave it an8:
I do believe this is the post-Pinkerton album some of us have been waiting for. Alive, colorful, plainly confessional, hooky, and drenched in current musical trends while retaining an undeniable Weezer foundation as set by Blue & Pinkerton.

Kyle gave it a4:
This ranges from merely acceptable ((If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To) to horrific and dry (In the Mall, Love is the Answer). Where is the personality? Where is the brain tickling? Dear God, why must Weezer be a pale shadow of their former self?

R. Dawg gave it a7:
An extremely fun listen (especially with the Deluxe Edition tracks mixed in) with songs like Trippin' Down The Freeway, The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World and Can't Stop Partying offering some of Rivers' best ever melodies dressed in rich and meaty guitar, bass, drum and sometimes even lush synths. At this point, if people want something at the level of the first two albums, those still exist and are every bit as good the 2nd or 52nd time you hear them. Raditude is feels like a step in 10 different directions, maybe only half of them are being right ones, but the songs each work on their own terms and don't seem to impede on one another (though that may have to do with the many different producers that worked on it) and just deliver a light-hearted soundscape. Sometimes great summer albums come out in November.

Dustin C gave it an8:
Doesn't it make you laugh when you hear Weezer fans bicker everytime a new album comes out? Why isnt it the Blue Album? Why isnt it Pinkerton? Why isnt it the Green Album? yada...yada...yada...get over it, Cuomo has always written whatever he feels like writing.

Jason C gave it a1:
Utter crap. With this album, Weezer has completed their journey from trend setting pop artists to sellout trend-CHASING goofball hacks. I can't take anymore. I'm done with these guys.

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