Be Your Own Pet

The music industry takes forever to change direction or regain lost momentum -- hence the release of back-to-rock CDs like this one a year or two after the trend peaked. If Be Your Own Pet's latest seems doomed to commercial failure, however, the disc is more than lively enough to justify its existence.

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The show's star is Jemina Pearl, a Nashville teen with a raucous squawk and a degree from the fat-cat-on-a-mat school of rhyming. Granted, "Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" ain't exactly Keats, but verses such as "We will come to your town/Burn your house down/Turn the sky brown/All because...we're on two wheels, baby!" are irresistible -- and so is the decision to the name a 105-second-long sonic spasm "Stairway to Heaven."

Although some of this material coasts by on sheer exuberance, the results still add up to a half-hour of "Fuuuuuun" (the name of another tune here). This particular Pet may be bound for the death house, but it's gonna have a good time before getting the gas.