Tag: Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud – Beautiful ’Cause You Love Me

“What’s with that bizarre high-pitched ‘ba-baby’?”

Tom: “Basin”, “Face in”, “Racing”, and “Taste it”. We start with a quadruple rhyme that feels like the musical equivalent of smashing your funnybone against a door. It doesn’t bode well.

Tim: When it’s like that, who cares what it bodes?

Tom: The production’s good, the vocals are competent, and that final chorus is just beautiful. But the lyrics are clunky and childish, and what’s with that bizarre high-pitched “ba-baby”?

Tim: No. NO. You don’t get to write it like that. Because you’re making it seem that those lyrics and the (admittedly potentially irritating) “ba-baby” knock out the wonderfulness of the chorus and the lovely vocals, when they really don’t. The singing, the tune is brilliant, and dodgy lyrics aren’t anywhere near enough to spoil them.

Tom: It plods. It plods in a very gentle and graceful manner… but it still plods.

Tim: It absolutely does not. It’s lovely.

Girls Aloud – Something New

MASSIVE.

Tim: “All I want is something new.” Both the first line of the chorus, and what many fans of brilliant pop music have been think for the past three and a half years.

Tim: So, we’ve got a MASSIVE backing track, quite a bit of Nicki Minaj-style rapping, a MASSIVE backing track, a BRILLIANT chorus, a MASSIVE backing track, some regular pretty good sung verses, a BRILLIANT chorus, a MASSIVE backing track and a BRILLIANT chorus.

Tom: There’s a bit too much Minaj in there for me, and the chorus ain’t exactly to my tastes: but I can’t deny…

Tim: And did I mention that MASSIVE backing track?

Tom: …the backing track, no.

Tim: It, along with that BRILLIANT chorus I may also have mentioned, really make this track really really amazing and exactly what a Girls Aloud comeback track should be.

Tom: Except. Except, except, except. I know this won’t apply to their target market, who’ll never have heard of it, but there’s an uncomfortable history in British pop music about people declaring themselves the leader of something. And once my brain made that connection — that really quite famous connection — the song kinda got ruined for me.

But yes, if your brain isn’t hyperactive on dodgy musical connections, it’s a good track.

Tim: “We girls gonna run this show.” Yes, they probably are.