Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: surprisingly bad

This album is imo considered to be either a joke, or a begrudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation that Bo had no choice in obviously. The songs do fit and blend well together, it's one long big run of sappy, midtempo been there done that a million times. Small bright spot comes in track 11. Unfortunately it's too late as most listeners may not make it that far. No wonder the stigma still exists for Bo Bice, it's becasue of poor or forced choices. ouch.Nothing new brought to pop and or pop/rock. Bo's vocals are backseat to the laughably bad songwriting and overpowering instruments.