Loveology
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By Micah Nielsen
Before Michael Tait joined the Newsboys, he was in this band called Tait. Tait was founded in 1997 by lead singer Michael Tait and drummer Chad Chaplin. They later added guitarist Pete Stewart, formerly of Grammatrain, and bassist Lonnie Chapin, formerly of Petra. Together, the band released Empty in 2001. Pete Stewart left the band the next year and was replaced by Justin York. In 2003 the band released Lose This Life. Since 2004 the band has went on multiple hiatuses leaving only Michael Tait and Chad Chapin remaining as multiple guitarists and bassists passed through the ranks of the band. Around 2006, Michael Tait announced that they were working on a new album called Loveology and he described it as being like “Stevie Wonder meets Maroon 5 meets Lenny Kravitz.” When he joined the Newsboys in 2009, he said he still had plans to release Loveology. My point is, what if Loveology was actually released, but it was being cleverly disguised as Born Again? If you ask me, I would say yes because this sounds a lot more like Tait than the traditional Newsboys sound. However that’s just my theory about the album.
All in all it’s just okay, there are some songs that I actually don’t like. These include: “One Shot” which has very cheesy and generic lyrics in it, “When The Boys Light Up” which has the same problems as the previous track but is more irrelevant, “Mighty To Save” because they have it on two of their albums, and “Jesus Freak” for being a really bad cover of a major DC Talk hit and KJ-52’s vocals just didn’t work at all. However, the other eleven songs are all decent, and I really would have liked to see another version of this album on here. Oh, and Furler’s stuff is way better than this.