Girls Aloud - 'Call The Shots'
It’s their seventeenth ever single (just one more and Girls Aloud songs can legally drink, vote and take part in military operations. Whoop!). It gives Cheryl Cole goose bumps. It makes me feel very foolish for publicly dumping them on this very blog (luckily I don’t think they noticed). When it first leaked onto YouTube, I listened to it all afternoon on repeat and sent it to people who usually hate Girls Aloud thinking that it would convert them (it didn’t).
In fact, 'Call The Shots' has made me think a lot about the structure of Girls Aloud songs and how they often start quite ropily, with some faux-meaningful but ultimately non-sensical lyrics (let’s call it the Alabama-reserve/cappuccino-to-go axis), but somehow once you’ve got to the chorus you stop noticing.
In fact, of the many, many Girls Aloud songs that I’ve listened to many, many times, it’s usually only when the words are floating across the screen in karaoke booths that I notice just how weak they can be.
And it’s only for it’s karaoke potential that I can cope with the opening verse of Call The Shots (good scope for soft-rockin’ Bonnie Tyleristic interpretations). Fortunately, the chorus is a proper hallelujah one, and after that I barely notice the verses amidst the anticipation of another round of spine tingling, arm-hair bristling, voice undulating fabulousness.
But does this late-November release mean that there’ll be no Christmas single from the Alouds?
Download: Out now
CD Released: November 26th
(Nickie Latham)
Comments
I Love That Song i fink It Well Acee :p
hiya its lisa i think girls aloud r the best girl band ever i have been a massive fan since popstars the rivals in 2002 i think then puplic made a good choice