Aaron's Party (Come Get It)

1	Aaron's Party (Come Get It) 4:03
2	I Want Candy 3:40
3	Bounce 3:30
4	My Internet Girl 4:07
5	That's How I Beat Shaq 3:24
6	The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap) 3:45
7	Iko Iko 3:47
8	Real Good Time 3:49
9	Tell Me What You Want 3:20
10	Girl You Shine 3:21

Barnes & Noble

If 'N Sync's looking a little long in the tooth to your pop-loving primary grader, help has arrived in the form of Aaron Carter, cute, blond younger brother of cute, blond Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. Young Aaron, whose four Top 40 singles make him a veritable music-biz veteran at age 12 , displays on his second album the sort of prepubescent charm and energy that makes third graders squeal -- with just enough of a street touch that older sibs won't flee the house when little sis cranks up the stereo. In between catchy, bouncy pop-R&B confections like the high-energy title track, the fantasy basketball ditty "That's How I Beat Shaq," the appropriately titled "Bounce," and4 the highly kinetic covers of the Strangeloves' "I Want Candy" (previously covered by '80s new wavers Bow Wow Wow) and Mardi Gras fave "Iko Iko" are amusing spoken "interludes" resembling prank phone calls (fear not, parents, the caller gets his comeuppance). Most intriguing from an anthropological point of view is "My Internet Girl," about the totally sweet 'n' innocent cyber "relationships" that blossom from grade-school chat rooms, something many of today's kids can relate to. Carter is fun, essentially harmless, and considerably less scary to parents than Eminem. Moira McCormick

All Music Guide

According to Aaron Carter, all he wants to do is give listeners "a little bit of old school." Of course, the 12-year-old Carter's definition of "old school" means listening to Color Me Badd and Joey Lawrence albums. If you're outside of Carter's preteen demographic, Aaron's Party: Come Get It is exactly as bad as you think it would be: a painful blend of facile synth pop mixed with sanitized, suburban hip-hop jargon. It's hard enough watching pint-sized rappers Lil' Bow Wow and Lil' Romeo act like they're street hustlers, but listening to Carter try to come off as a hard-edged lothario is just plain sad. As if that isn't bad enough, he also manages to desecrate '60s pop classics such as the Strangeloves' "I Want Candy" and the Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko." Aaron Carter is the younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, and this album is proof that George W. Bush is not the only one who has ever benefited from nepotism. Like bubblegum acts of the past, the only value of Aaron's Party: Come Get It is as pure kitsch, the sort of album you look back on years after its release and mock with ironic glee. Jon Azpiri