Album · 2009
Unstoppable
Unstoppable is an album by Rascal Flatts, released in 2009 on Big Machine Records, LLC, with 12 tracks.
- 12
- Tracks
- 49 min
- Runtime
Not yet rated — be the first
Album · 2009
Unstoppable is an album by Rascal Flatts, released in 2009 on Big Machine Records, LLC, with 12 tracks.
Not yet rated — be the first
12 tracks · 49 min
Here comes the hubris. Rascal Flatts managed to keep it at bay through most of the 2000s, even as they turned into the biggest act in country music, but with their sixth album, Unstoppable, they succumb, trading their "aw shucks" persona for a title that Michael Jackson somehow missed in his King of Pop phase and acting like superstars, not boys next door made good. That humble streak always kept Rascal Flatts relatable, even when they went multi-platinum and drifted into colorless country-pop, and without it the group sounds a little bloated. Of course, it doesn't help that almost nothing about Unstoppable is modest, not the sounds, not the sentiments -- only the songs, which can't withstand these muscle-bound arrangements, whether they're sports-bar party anthems like "Summer Nights," glistening, tightly wound crossover pop like "Close" and its breezy counterpart "She'd Be California," or arena ballads like the first single, "Here Comes Goodbye." Despite a lot of driving, sequenced rhythms, most of the record feels as if it belongs to the latter category, thanks to how every track comes across as waves of gleaming sound, topped by the group's harmonies but with no strong supporti…