Big Bad World

This pop-punk quintet hit it big last year with ”Hey There Delilah,” an acoustic ballad clearly modeled on Green Day’s ”Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” Here the Plain White T’s sound eager to duplicate that success with a handful of cutesy campfire jams clearly ? modeled on ”Delilah.” (”1, 2, 3, 4” even has sweet strings.) Big Bad World also features some cranked-guitar rockers seemingly designed to prove the band hasn’t gone (totally) soft, but even those ring with echoes of ”Delilah” — on ”Natural Disaster” singer Tom Higgenson falls for a lady who saw him singing his heart out on MTV. B
Download This: Listen to ”1, 2, 3, 4” on the band’s MySpace page