The Pretender -- Foo Fighters

The Foo Fighters have a lot of expectations to live up to when they create music these days. The Pretender probably doesn't live up to those expectations, not because it's a poor song, but because the associated expectations are too high.

The Pretender is the guitar heavy overwhelming sound that you would expect to hear from the Foo Fighters. The music video for the song is well done, and sufficiently dramatic enough to be entertaining even if it's only plot is rather hodge podge. The problem is all of this is also the songs biggest flaw. At no point does the song go beyond expectations. The song comes exactly as anticipated, with no surprises or any thing new. If the song had just the tiniest bit of originality it would be an awesome song, but there is nothing that makes this sound any different then anything else the Foo Fighters have done.

Overall the song gets a decent rating because it's melodically sound, and full of potential, but is to damaged by its expectedness that it fails any test of greatness...

Song rating: 6