Jonas Brothers

At least two qualities are necessary for Disney success: wholesomeness and versatility. Both need to be carefully balanced so that kids adore you and parents not only approve but can stand you. The Jonas Brothers display both qualities in spades on their fourth album, a genre-jumping melange of country (some of it featuring Miley!), puberty-voiced pop-rock (much of it an alt '90s vein) and a lot of Chicago-meets-Stevie-Wonder's-harmonica-oeuvre adult-contempo. But the track that will blow minds is "Don't Charge Me for the Crime," a dark rumination on hard choices featuring Common (no, really).

Whoa, JoBros! Nobody wanted to bring up Taylor Swift, but the best song on your new
album vows, "I'm done with superstars/And all the tears on her guitar." Snapness! JoMG
BroMG! Not only do the boys zap "Teardrops on My Guitar," the famous hit by Joe Jonas'
most famous ex, there's also "World War III" (about girls who drop the bomb on you),
"Paranoid" (rhymes with "consider me destroyed") and "What Did I Do to Your He... More >