Hot Action Cop - CD Review - Old archive, Published in Daily Evergreen 2003

Hot Action Cop
D+
Album falls Short

Brace yourself; Hot Action Cop is on the scene. Yes it seems another band has released album in hopes of cashing in on the so called Rap-Rock revolution of the late 90’s.
This band suffers from a horrible disease that seems to be taking down the world’s musician’s one group at a time. The name of the disease; lack of originality. From the Very Beginning Hot Action Cop sounds like Limp Bizkit must have sounded like ten years ago.
The lead singer’s voice provides the same whiny tone that Fred Durst is famous for but with out those really catchy chorus lines allowing the public to listen to the Significant Other album without slamming a pot into their head.
The band can’t seem to find a style they prefer as they transfer from heavy metal, to funk, to punk, and Hip Hop all in the first song, “Doom Boom.” These transitions provide a lot of tension in their writing causing listeners to stop listening to closely and to focus on the beat.
The first single off this album, “Fever for the Flava” is by far probably the worst song on the CD. This quirky tune consist of amazingly deep lyrics such as; “do you think that I can get some (jiggy jiggy)”, “Can I get a little zip zip (looky looky)” its lines like these that will blow your mind.
“Fever for the Flava” reinforces the reality that you don’t need to be smart to be a rock star. Then again bands like Adema have already showed us that.
The track “Busted” try’s to go serious. Describing the sorrows of prison and being busted. Listening to this track will give the listener no doubt that none of the musicians in this band have ever spent more than three hours in jail. The track starts off with a slow guitar intro similar to Tick Turners “Friends and Family”-- just not good. The song continues to build up to a very disappointing apex.
This album in terms of musicality stinks. However, when played behind a party, dance or sporting activity I can see it being quite popular. The groove created by Hot Action Cop is generally up beat and fun.
What might make this album succeed is the image Hot Action Cop tries to create. Modeling after Sum 41 and late Offspring albums, this band attempts to show that they’re fun loving guys and if they can have fun playing their music you should have fun listening to their music.
MTV has predicted this album will be the album of Spring Break 2003. Many think this fun loving bunch of guys will be shot to stardom up there with the great pop stars like Justine Timberlake and Good Charlotte. Well, this album is just bad enough for that to happen.