Joey McIntyre

April 9, 1999

McIntyre drifts through "Stay the Same" with an appalling lack of presence.

April 14, 1999

While it's pop with a guessable direction, the music's listenable, though only hardcore fans would cherish the album.

April 15, 1999

His cliched, self-penned lyrics suggest a youth spent dodging tutors, and their fixation on trite surface thrills makes his soulman phrasing too mannered for the rote riffs he rides.

April 25, 1999

McIntyre faces jiggy-rock with the histrionics of a really good dinner-theater actor.

May 7, 1999

This is an hour of the same sort of witless pop and soulless pap the Kids churned out on the first go-around. Grow up, Joey.

May 9, 1999

The real problem is that while McIntyre has clearly developed as a singer, he's still got a ways to go as a writer.

May 13, 1999

Joey hasn't even pared back to "Joe" to signify adulthood. But then, adult poise is hard to come by in McIntyre's crass appeal to an age group he's long since left behind.

May 28, 1999

Someday, away from handlers and overwrought make-up arists, McIntyre could blossom into a forthright blue-eyed soul singer and songwriter.

June 10, 1999

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June 11, 1999

McIntyre is virtually stuck in a rut of pop fluff that sounds about as fresh as a Milli Vanilli remix.