There are some sturdy tunes and hooks, but not much more: the songwriting is often bland, the singing generally charmless.
As for their new album, it's a cosy but bland affair that lacks the hooks to ring out above the nostalgic sing-alongs for the crowd.
A ridiculously complicated question format (too complicated to explain in these pages) also muddied the waters and sometimes let candidates off the hook, allowing them to make bland statements about themselves rather than engaging in real debate.
Do the networks deliberately abandon groundbreaking material while hooking us on the sort of bland programming that is easier for them to make and market?
Like so many bigger, brasher (and often blander) shows on traditional networks, "Transparent" has a hook.
Milburn, Hoon and Darling would all wriggle like maggots on a hook and, at the end of their bland circumlocutions, none of us would really be any the wiser.
Danton found the rest of the album to be "simply bland padding, with plodding, canned beats and half-hearted hooks".
