With the chart plagued by endless, sickening ‘r & b’ sung by anonymous women who enjoy showing off their bums in boring videos made by men in over sized t-shirts who act like they're constantly trying avoid a barrage of face-bound frisbees, Girls Aloud are collectively one of Britain’s mainstream pop saviours. Unsurprisingly ’Chemistry’ - their third album in as many years – sees the famous five serving up the sort of snappy pop grooves they’ve been perfecting since ‘Sounds Of The Underground’ slapped their Popstars cohorts One True Voice across their annoyingly small faces.
So, alongside the excellent, pouting sassiness of ‘Biology’ comes the equally rollicking ‘Models’ and the breezy guitar-stomp of ‘Waiting’ – all fine cuts of crystalline good-time pop. Inevitably we have a few slices of big-ballad blandness – their upcoming Christmas number one challenger ‘See The Day’ is particularly non-eventful. However, during their more subtle moments - such as the rather pleasant ‘No Regrets’ - Nadine Coyle’s big, brassy voice drops to a gentle, aching lilt that is, of course, so necessary when delivering a line as perceptive as – “Rainy Sundays, kids TV / Fish and chips and NYC”. Hmmm.
The bonus finale of ‘Racy Lacey’ on the other hand, is a full on, jazzed-up, tirade against a girl who apparently gained her “PhD with her legs apart”. It’s Girls Aloud being a bit naughty – outrage Madonna-style it is not. Nevertheless, this is a fine pop album that should be chewed up and spat out all over the inane, half-step, one-hit wankers who don’t seem to realise when to stop grinding their ‘hump’ and bugger off back to blingville.
kimberley
in the eye. twice.
i'd
put it wherever she let me personally
You're
too polite by half
i prefer the sound of dying animals.
" a fine pop album "?? .
6/10 ???
you're having a laugh.
this pile of turd deserves a 2/10 at best. so what if it's better than some other pop music? it's still worse than listening to a cat throw up.
your site is confirmed as being a total joke when you can give Girls Aloud 6/10 and Babyshambles' album 4/10. disgusting.
indeed
yeah 4/10 is way too generous
it's true
babyshambles 3/10
girls aloud 5/10
just 1 mark off
not bad
And to be fair
that's what mark it had originally, before IPC weighed in and made us shift it up a mark. It'll be no. 1 in the end of year polls too, no doubt!
At least..
Babyshambles have some soul and heart unlike this money-driven, formulaic, focus-group inspired, unoriginal, soulless, flash-in-the-pan load of horse ejaculate.
why have people with generally good tastes in music in all the press suddenly changed their musical point of view to praise this waste of space? Polydor been sending round xmas presents with copies of the cd?
fucking hell
just being hot is not enough for some people
IS IT
???
of course it's not enough!? when you are listening to tunes you cannot see the people singing, so it is 100% irrelevant what they look like.
and anyway they don't float my boat that way as i am gay.
jeeeeeesus
just cos you're gay doesn't mean you shouldn't have been able to tell i was KIDDING
i'm sure they're gay icons anyway!
you should LOVE them.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
someone clearly hasn't had the 'pleasure' of hearing Fuck Forever then.
Anyway, I wanna know which songs make up the plague of "endless, sickening ‘r & b’ sung by anonymous women who enjoy showing off their bums in boring videos" that the review so speaks of. Cos this year's has been a lot bloody better (on a pop level, or any other frankly) than Girls Aloud's somewhat tired-sounding recent efforts. But then that last Sugababes song was dire too, a much more alarming state of pop affairs...
OPEN YOUR MIND!!
for your own sake, and ours. please.
xenomania>>>>>>>>>doherty
This is really really good, as expected. Ballads let the side down again, but there's only three of them this time so it doesn't matter too much. 'Models' is particularly immense.
We watched Girls Aloud
at ATP.
Truth.
I maintain
Girls Aloud are a dying force. The time is right for One True Voice and Hear'say to storm back to the top. Mark my words.
words are duly marked.
i can imagine an amazing hybrid
one true voice, hear'say and the cunts...
"hear the one true voice say CUNTS"
in comparison
anyone who still thinks doherty is a genius filled with 'soul and emotion' must really have trouble being able to think for themselves. 'Fuck Forever' - my heart weeps!
Girls aloud however, rule. Biology was ace
that's hilarious
'trouble being able to think for themselves' eh?
coming from someone who has jumped eagerly onto two bandwagons. firstly the ‘I hate pete doherty’ bandwagon. You individual you! and you don’t like fuck forever either? Wow, I wish I could think as independently as you. never heard anyone slag that song off before.
You’ve also managed, by some incredible feat of self-replication, to jump on the ‘Girls-Aloud’ are ‘so tacky they’re cool’ bandwagon. Once again, you are a trendsetter and a free thinker that sheep like myself can only dream of one day being…
The Girls Aloud album may seem relatively ok compared to the other similar popcrap on the market, but the album will survive maybe two listens before you wonder why you ever bought it. within a year you will be hiding it at the back of your collection, when you realise that they are just as talentless as the other pop cretins all over the chart.
I wonder if Girls Aloud will ever eb able to WRITE songs as good as La Belle et la Bette, Pipedown, Killimangiro, 32nd of December or Gang of Gin . Actually, I don’t wonder. I know they can’t. They are as talented musically as David Hasselhof.
they 'rule' nothing. except maybe the vapid and pathetic minds of retards like baptiste.
oi
leave the hoff out of this.
Wow,
a Babyshambles fan giving us the inverse anti-conformist double bluff. Groundbreaking.
can I get in on this?
wow.
The old 'bandwagon' routine eh?
How about the "I'm so indie I just love Pete and would suck his cock even if it was all pus-coated and bleeding just because the NME says he's cool" bandwagon?
Don't get me wrong, he's written some good stuff, but that shouldn't grant him the status of a demi-god, just a normal musician who writes decent(sometimes) songs.
*immediately regrets writing this, but posts it anyway*
i have been on a bandwagon
it stank of shit
To conclude
Not a demi-God. Just on another (better) planet - musically - to the load of pish that is Girls Aloud.
oh, and i don't read NME. i just listen to music, and if i like it i like it.
i think i've made my point. and laboured it.
Impressed, but not a hardcore fan
Im not a particularly big Girls aloud fan, although i did want them to win 'popstars' many moons ago (us girls gotta stick together you see), however i have found myself subsequently tapping my feet and shaking my hips to their songs without even realiseing it. I havent heard the album to judge them, but from the songs i have heard, i think theyre not half bad for a girl pop group. They won't outdo the spice girls tho, haha! Spice up ur life X-P
This
is a cracking pop album. If we are going to have mainstream teen fodder, then I'm happy for it to be this.
On the other hand, if you took the drug furore away from Pete Doherty, you'd be looking at a busker earning £5 an hour on the Northern Line.
with that logic:
what would you get if you took away the publicity that girls aloud got from being formed on that tv show. and then took away the people who write their songs for them. nothing more than karaoke singers.
and anyway, don't slag off northern line buskers- there's some real talent amongst them...