Pop Fly

AWESOME CD! Catchy lyrics...great music...and most importantly, parents won't want to bang their head against the wall when listening to it.

I was slow to pick up Justin's latest release after previewing tracks on iTunes. With his previous 3 albums on heavy rotation in our toddler occupied household it just didn't seem like the "Pop Fly" album could stand-up or make a difference. I was wrong. We picked this up at one of his concerts in early August and I doubt we have gone a day without playing it. Lucky for my wife and I it's a solid work from beginning to end. It's got the catchy anthems (Pop Fly, Stay-at-Home Dad) that you usually get as well as the more serious, lump-in-the-throat inducing ones (Giant-sized Butterflies). This album seems to be an honest musical improvement, as well. Justin's genre-bending humorous songs could often come off as near-parody (an don't get me wrong I love Taking Off My Training Wheels on MELTDOWN!), but on POP FLY is a song like "Henrietta's Hair": a legitimately great (and funny) country/folk kids' composition. I expect it'll be bounced around as a cover for years to come.

I consider myself very fortunate to be a parent in an age of such great kids oriented music.

I'm so glad I have kids so I had a reason to buy my first Justin Roberts CD (Yellow Bus)--and they're a good excuse to keep buying every single release he puts out (though I would anyway). Flexible, versatile songwriting--joyful musicianship--accessible lyrics that are clever but not self-consciously showy--great production values--I just can't say enough good things about his entire discography.

That being said, this is our FAVORITE JR effort--fresh and buoyant, tender, encouraging and practical, and polished but not slick. There's not a single song on the disc that we skip past, and more often we end up repeating songs 2 or 3 times before moving on to the next (I could listen to The Backyard Super Kid a dozen times at a stretch--the drumming is KICKING.)

Simply wonderful for tall and short alike. This is the gift we'll be giving at every birthday party all year long.

They just get better and better! Not only wonderful for the kids but the adults love it also. Thanks again for another great album. Opps I dated myself by saying album.....

I can't say enough good things about Justin Robert's CD, Pop Fly. My kids (ages 2 and 4) LOVE it. We listen to it in the car and at home all of the time. I love it, because it doesn't get tiresome and annoying (like most kid's music).
Pop Fly is a great song (and it perfectly describes the feeling of standing below that Pop fly!). Henrietta's Hair is very funny. Stay at home dad is a great song, too. Giant-Sized Butterflies talks about how you feel on the first day of school (I wish I had a song like that to listen to on my first day of school).
You won't regret buying this CD!