Oooh La La! - a delightful album by the Crash Test Dummies

In his review of Crash Test Dummies' album "Oooh La La!" (2010), Stephen Thomas Erlewine complains about the Dummies being "constitutionally incapable of playing things straight", saying that Brad Roberts "has an annoying tendency to sound like he's barely suppressing his smirk as he sings, laughing at his own jokes like a hack comedian", and adding "by sounding so delighted with his own cleverness, he undermines the whole shebang". I don't know how well Mr. Erlewine knows Crash Test Dummies, but I think that this is basically just Brad Roberts being himself. It's just part of his personality and the way he expresses himself as an artist. Take it or leave it