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Pleasing tunes from the grown-up teens who teen-pop forgot Mmm, pop and its paradoxes. If our aging Oklahoma lads had never recorded "MMMBop", nobody would audition their fourth studio album. But history's most perfect pop song also set an impossible standard, even if the glitzier teen-pop that followed finally turned stomachs. Still, if you could listen without prejudice, you might enjoy the easygoing fluency of Underneath. There are no future standards, but no sugary returns to childhood, either. If the flavors are a little familiar, the influences are eclectic and gentle -- just a hint of the Commodores' "Easy" behind the graceful title ballad and the Cars' "Drive" haunting the melancholic "Misery". Like Fountains of Wayne without the collegiate sensibility, the record stays consistently between Bazooka and the canon, tasty and not too sweet, a way to occupy the restless ear, not without satisfactions for pop fans with aural fixations. RENE VIENET