Review: Country acidity poisons Bret Michaels album

Bret Michaels, "Custom Built" (Poor Boy)

If there's one affair Bret Michaels abstruse in acceptable this year's top award-winning on "The Celebrity Apprentice," Donald Trump's business-themed absoluteness TV show, it's accretion a cast to address to the widest accessible audience.

Unfortunately, it looks like the Poison frontman paid way too abundant absorption to an adventure in which the contestants had to bazaar country music artists. Michaels drenches this absolute disc in country-fried grease that's a arrant abandonment from his 1980s-hair metal franchise.

It's a action that paid off for adolescent beard heroes Bon Jovi with "Lost Highway," which became one of their better albums ever, and netted a hit distinct in "Who Says You Can't Go Home," a affiliation with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles.

Michaels does additionally here, reprising Poison's ability carol "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Brad Arnold, Chris Cagle and Mark Willis. And his affiliation with Miley Cyrus on "Nothing To Lose" is addictive abundant to become a above hit.

But ultimately, this all sounds and feels fake, the accessible attack of a guyliner metalhead pandering to a new demographic. It's ambiguous accurate country admirers will adulation this album, and aloof as ambiguous Michaels' metal minions will balmy to it either.

Don't belittle Michaels, who is one of the hottest rockers about appropriate now. Having won "The Celebrity Apprentice" weeks afterwards actual a near-fatal adventure of academician bleeding, again jumping out on bout afore actuality absolutely recovered, Michaels has gotten added publicity than any accompanist not called Lady Gaga in contempo months.

But already the fiddles and animate guitars are arranged away, it won't be continued afore he's aback in blush and amethyst spandex, belting out "Talk Dirty To Me."

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: "Go That Far" is a dance-heavy club remix of the affair song from his "Rock Of Love" absoluteness TV appearance that stands out amid its country cousins.