Life Is Good

Compared with ‘N Sync’s recent attempt at calculating teen needs, LFO’s stab at maturity, Life Is Good, sounds effortless. Littered with winningly silly lines (”We broke up before the prom and you told everyone I was gay”) and hip hop cameos that don’t feel obligatory (De La Soul, Kelis), the trio’s catchy second disc places them in the ranks of ”real” boy bands like Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, and blink 182. Life is good — even for twentysomethings.