The Official Girls Aloud Thread - Page 19

bondingo · #**361** 10th October 2008, 08:05 PM

That cover is absolutely stunning

I am definitely buying the tour!

**milky_way** · #**362** 11th October 2008, 01:18 AM

That cover is gorgeous!! I might actually get this.

drewbilation · #**363** 11th October 2008, 05:46 AM

Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant talked a little about their collaboration with GA on his most recent blog entry:

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While working with the Xenomania team, we ended up co-writing a song for Girls Aloud called "The Loving Kind." It's on their new album, "Out Of Control," which will be released early in November. I love it - it's beautiful but still dancey - and there's talk of it being released as a single. We first got involved with Xenomania because they'd written and produced great songs for Girls Aloud like "Biology" and "Call The Shots."

beautiful and dancey = CTS 2.0 maybe? I think a lot of PSB's own music can also be described that way.

**Cyria** · #**364** 11th October 2008, 05:46 PM

^That's good news. A Girls Aloud/Pet Shop Boys track should be interesting.

drewbilation · #**365** 13th October 2008, 03:35 PM

album cover:

sigh.

bernardation · #**366** 13th October 2008, 06:10 PM

oooooooh my....
did they do it themselves?

**Cyria** · #**367** 13th October 2008, 06:27 PM

A shame they're using the same style for the album as for the single.

I'm liking the remixes of The Promise, more than the actual song. Not as awesome as the first two Tangled Up singles, but because of the remixes it's not a disappointment to me.

LEOyumi · #**368** 14th October 2008, 02:57 AM

LOL at the single cover

Kaiouforever · #**369** 14th October 2008, 08:53 AM

that album cover doesn't scream out of control at all...kind of boring. =/

Re:★ · #**370** 14th October 2008, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by drewbilation

album cover:

sigh.

WHAT THE **** IS THAT? My interest in this project has gone from very little to none.

:/

bondingo · #**371** 15th October 2008, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Re:★

WHAT THE **** IS THAT? My interest in this project has gone from very little to none.

:/

Mine's gone from immense to not very much, and Girls Aloud are my favorite band :\

drewbilation · #**372** 15th October 2008, 01:50 AM

despite the horrendous cover, I still think the album will be quite good.

also, some more info on the album was uploaded to their MySpace recently:

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Girls Aloud release their new album ‘Out Of Control' on November 3rd through Fascination Records.

The 12-track album sees the UK's premiere girl group continue to take pop music to places it's never been before. Five albums into their career they are trailblazers who have consistently raised the bar and changed what it means to be a girlband in the 21st century.

Working again with the Xenomania team, Girls Aloud have been constantly challenging themselves in the studio. As Kimberley says: "We want to impress the fans with what we do, so we've tried to up our game with this album and step outside the comfort zone." Nadine adds: "Our aim from the beginning was to come up with songs that didn't sound like anything else out there."

Girls Aloud headed straight back into the studio straight after their sold out ‘Tangled Up' arena tour this Spring. They took a break from recording to perform a thrilling set on the main stage at the V Festival this August. The lead single, 'The Promise' sees the girls explore the lush sounds of the Sixties. It's a sound that has already proved to be a winner. Even before release the single is already one of the most played Girls Aloud songs on radio. And the Sixties drive-in movie themed video has been inescapable if you have been anywhere near a music channel.

Over the course of the new album you get the sound-clash of styles that you expect from a Girls Aloud album. From the dancehall beats of 'Revolution In The Head' to the Eighties's electro synths of 'Love Is Pain' and the rollicking block-party chants of 'We Wanna Party.' Then there is 'The Loving Kind', a song that has already sent bloggers into meltdown before anyone has heard a note. The song is a co-write with Pet Shop Boys and sees two great British pop forces come together to produce a song that is set to become a Girls Aloud classic. The drum'n'bass beats of 'Live In The Country' flips the sound yet again. 'Out Of Control' is an album only Girls Aloud can pull off - and the reason why the UK has been in love with them for so long.

"For everything else that goes on around us, singing pop songs is what we do," says Sarah. "This is why we got into music in the first place. We feel like veterans now coming back with a fifth album but in some ways we learnt so much making this album and feel like we've still got a long way to go."

drewbilation · #**373** 15th October 2008, 03:50 PM

Popjustice has reviewed the album:

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What's 'The Promise' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It's like an elegant, sophisticated 70s disco song inexplicably missed off the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It's the first single and you've already heard it. You might not feel moved to play it very often, but when you hear it you enjoy it. It is the Girls' least brilliant (ie worst) comeback single to date, but it's still 'a pop treat'.

Best lyric: "Giving up just looking into windows"
Is it amazing? Fairly
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Sort of. Yes on a good day

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What's 'The Loving Kind' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! Like 'Call The Shots' and Kylie's 'The One' this is essentially a hi-NRG ballad. Rhymes the word 'kind' with 'disinclined'.

Best lyric: "The issue's never mentioned, with all the best intentions" <<<CLASSIC TENNO*
Is it amazing? Yes. Really properly amazing
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud PLUS Xenomania PLUS Pet Shop Boys standards? Let's be honest - no

* It's probably Miranda having said that

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What's 'Rolling Back The Rivers' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! Sonically it sounds like Girls Aloud doing 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'. The chorus has a great "ah-ooh" bit but the track's a bit nothingy - do we really come to Girls Aloud albums for lyrics like "there's a feeling in my soul that sets my heart alight"? WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OUR MINDS ON THIS (seeing as it's Track 3, a traditional 'single position' on an album).

Best lyric: "Ah-ooh"
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? No

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What's 'Love Is The Key' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It's like a Girls Aloud album track mixed with one of the upbeat (good) songs on the Gabriella Cilmi album. Lyrically it's basically Paula Abdul's 'Opposites Attract' or A*Teens' 'Perfect Match' with various "you save all your money, I get into debt" type business.

Best lyric: "The life and soul of the party it's safe to say you're not"
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

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What's 'Turn 2 Stone' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It's like a mid-tempo piece of electronic incredibleness based around an ethereal "don't turn away, or you'll see it turn to stone" refrain. There is an amazing zoomy whoosh noise in the middle eight.

Best lyric: "Say you want to be certain, certain that this feeling will never fade"
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

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What's 'Untouchable' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! Let's start off by saying that this runs to over six and a half minutes. It's fast, electronic and fantastic. The build-up to the chorus is immense: there's a great bridge ("I know a heart shouldn't beat so hard and sometimes you're swimming with the sharks"), a brilliant bit where it all drops out, and then a massive chorus - "in my dreams it feels like we are forty storeys tall, when you're around we're untouchable". The second time the chorus comes around there's a second part which includes the line "we're beautiful robots dancing alone".

Best lyric: The robots one
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? YES

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What's 'Fix Me Up' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! This is down tempo but it is not a ballad. We are aware that certain people might in fact refer to this as 'low slung'. The intro and middle eight have a vocodered, pitched-down (or sung by A Bloke) "oh sex me up cos I'm feeling like I want you" line. It's basically a song about ****ing.

Best lyric: "Fix me up in the middle of the morningevening"
Is it amazing? It's better than anything by The Enemy
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? No

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What's 'Love Is Pain' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It starts off pretending to be 808 State, then decides to be 'Break 4 Love' for a short while, and then ends up thundering into an early-90s electronic sort of affair. There are some brilliant "oh-oh-oh" bits at the end. That is a picture of a whip by the way, we know it doesn't look anything like one but it is.

Best lyric: "It don't matter to me, just be faithful to me"
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

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What's 'Miss You Bow Wow' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! The intro kicks off with "everybody love love loves everybody everybody love love loves everybody everybody love love loves everybody everybody loves good loving". VERY GOOD. It might not actually be "good loving". It might be something else. The important bit, though, is the "everybody love love loves everybody everybody love love loves" portion - a lot of the song's based on a lyrical repetition but what's most amazing about this is how the song shoots off in a series of unexpected directions as it progresses - a trick which continues right into the last forty seconds. This might have the best chorus, melodically, and lyrically, on the album.

Best lyric: It's the chorus - "I remember living that dream, twenty minutes in a hotel bar, then I slip into your girlfriend's jeans, and I remember saying baby hold tight, twenty hours in the Twilight Zone, the only lovers in the world that night"
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? VERY YES

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What's 'Revolution In The Head' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It has a very agreeable "hey hey hey, oh oh oh" bit, which is a real bass-from-the-speakers-running-through-your-sneakers sort of pop moment. It's mid-tempo. It's alright.

Best lyric: "Revolution in the head don't count for nothing, you gotta move that ass, revolution in the head don't count for nothing, you've gotta beat the past", which is an excellent Oasis diss even if it's not meant to be
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? It is a very pleasant if functional album track

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What's 'Live In The Country' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It's basically the sequel to 'Swinging London Town' - waking up with a hangover and wondering whether things might be better with a couple of cows mooing outside your window. There's a great naivety to the lyrics ("if I live in the country I'll find another way - get rich, live in the country, I know I'll be okay"). It should also be noted that this is a drum 'n' bass track. Basically it's completely ludicrous. Ends with the distant bleat of a sheep.

Best lyric: "I want ducks and a lake and a family portrait and a pipe and a dog at my feet, I want a stall at the fete selling strawberry shortcake"
Is it amazing? Yes
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

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What's 'We Wanna Party' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It's a lot like Lene from Aqua's 'We Wanna Party', mainly because it's a rocked-up cover of that very song. We're not exactly sure why this is on the album but nobody's getting hurt, it's only a bonus track and it sounds great in a 'What Will The Neighbours Say?' kind of way.

Best lyric: "We're so depressed we wear our shades at night"
Is it amazing? It is above average
Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Not in 2008

bondingo · #**374** 15th October 2008, 04:04 PM

Ok, now I'm a lot more excited about the album, again. The review sounds really good, and I think Kim was exaggerating when she said the whole album has that sort of 60's sound or whatever, because Popjustice didn't really seem to say that.

bernardation · #**375** 15th October 2008, 06:05 PM

the review sounds quite good! but something is telling me the album is not going to be as good as 'chemistry' or even 'tangled up'.
let's just wait and see.