New Sugababes Single, Stolen Off The Internet
Forgive me if this clip has already stopped working by the time you get to have a listen, it's one of those taped-off-the-radio clips which has web people running around like '40s newspaper reporters, yelling "SCOOP!" and acting smug.
Hopefully it'll be up for a little while though, cos it's VERY INTERESTING INDEED.
This, assuming you can hear it, is the new single by the Sugababes. It's called 'Girls', and it's entirely based on the Ernie K. Doe song which was used in the ad campaign for Boots last Christmas.
Some of the lyrics seem to have been written by Helen 'Bridget Jones' Diary' Fielding, with all that stuff about little black dresses and whatnot. Some of the other lyrics seem to have been written by Destiny's Child, given the amount of trumpeting about independent women and how amazing they are.
These are not necessarily weaknesses, given that the song is aimed squarely at The Ladies (or The Girls' Night Out), and besides, a song which features the refrain "here come the girls" is hardly going to go on to make jokes about kitchens, chocolate or bums being big in things, now is it?
The other thing to bear in mind is that this is obviously going to be a hit record. It's going to be a hit record when it comes out, then it's going to be a hit record in December when all the Christmas parties start, and it will probably continue to be a hit record throughout New Year and into January. Hell, then we're looking down the barrel of Valentine's Day, and there's going to be a whole ARMY of righteous ladies strutting about then too.
That is unless you fellas get a LOT more organised with the cards, obviously.
'Girls' is out on October 6th. You have been warned!
Comment number 1.
At 13th Aug 2008, HazelChartblog wrote:Popjustice said this sounded very much like a Sugababes song but I have to say, it sounds like a remix of a set of samples to me; none of the things that characterise the Sugababes sound, to me are in it and they could be interchanged with virtually anyone to have made it. I'll admit I don't like the song from the Boots adverts in the first place so I wasn't likely to enjoy something that samples it but still, extremely disappointing.
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