The attempt to approximate the sound of popular rap-metal bands like Rage Against The Machine and Limp Bizkit is clear. This is not your father's Aerosmith. However, there's a 60s psychedelic sound that pervades the vocals on most tracks that betrays them and reveals their age and their roots after all. Just Push Play is too slick and overproduced to be fresh and interesting. If you listen close enough, you can still hear some cool guitar riffs from Joe Perry, traces of the power and swagger that used to be the band's core, but it's buried under so much studio production, it's hard to hear the germ of inspiration that was there when these songs were first written.
Corporate control is too intense.
This album will do fine. Just Push Play will be another big commercial success, but something was lost. The loss of personality and total creative control is the price of success. To some, Aerosmith is one of the greatest musical tragedies in rock and roll history. To others, the band is bigger now than ever.