Sugababes - "Girls"

[RedDragon]

The title of the new single begins with the letter 'G'. AND IT'S ONLY ONE WORD.

[That Skipping Rope.]

f**k YES!

That is like so my favorite letter!

Let's speculate as to what the title might be!

"Good."

Your turn.

[RedDragon]

I say: GLITTER!

or: GOOGLE.

[That Skipping Rope.]

Oh! And it's one word.

[backintime]

I hope they're bringing back G-Funk and it's just called "G".

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

One word?

I was hoping it would be "Get It".

[RedDragon]

Can I announce it now??

[backintime]

Ooh, or that it's about G, the mysterious star of classic Eddie Murphy movie Holy Man!

[RedDragon]

And the title of the new single is...

GIRLS (ALOUD?)

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

Here come the girls?

[backintime]

It's a sequel to "I Kissed a Girl"!

[RedDragon]

I really hope it's something like this:

"I like them black girls
I like them white girls
I like them Asian girls
I like them mixed race girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls"

Hot new Katy Perry inspired song!

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

Maybe with a little bit of The Blood Arms' "Suspicious Character" refrain too:

I like all the girls and all the girls like me. ;D

[Franck]

I hope it's an upbeat song. They started the last era well with "About You Now" but the other singles were so boring, I miss their up-tempo singles.

[RedDragon]

I think they definitely learned that they have 26 YO and not 50, that's why they said this album will be more funky and fun.

[backintime]

Oh oh, it needs to be a cover of Studio B's "I See Girls":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwejKNp3FLA

[RedDragon]

This actually samples the 1940’s classic from Ernie K. Doe "Here Come The Girls".

[backintime]

Aug 11, 2008 11:11:49 GMT -5 RedDragon said:

This actually samples the 1940’s classic from Ernie K. Doe "Here Come The Girls".

Wait, are you being serious now?

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

Ernie K Doe's "Here Come The Girls" was used on the Boots advert last Christmas and made it to #43 on the singles chart on re-release.

There should be a thread in record review somewhere...

[RedDragon]

Yes. The Popjustice webmaster announced it on the forum. They have the song.

[backintime]

LMAO. Danny was right the first time

Aug 11, 2008 10:54:13 GMT -5 The Seldom Seen Kid said:

Here come the girls?

[backintime]

Aug 11, 2008 11:15:12 GMT -5 The Seldom Seen Kid said:

Ernie K Doe's "Here Come The Girls" was used on the Boots advert last Christmas and made it to #43 on the singles chart on re-release.

There should be a thread in record review somewhere...

soundcheckmusic.proboards85.com/index.cgi?board=international&action=display&thread=7499

[That Skipping Rope.]

Sugababes albums are becoming something of an annual British institution - like Wimbledon, the Chelsea Flower Show and, er, Girls Aloud albums.

Anyway, their new collection of tunes is due in a few months but their comeback single is out next month and it's called 'Girls'. It is literally quite brilliant.

Here are the main things you need to know about it:

THE MAIN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUGABABES COMEBACK* SINGLE 'GIRLS'

1. It's based around a rewritten version - ie use the chorus, Sugabung in some new verses and bits - of 'Here Come The Girls', which UK readers will be well aware soundtracked a series of Boots commercials last Christmas and is therefore a song lodged firmly in the British psyche yet surprisingly underexploited by The Usually Quite Opportunistic Pop Industry.

So those are the main things you need to know.

Want to listen to a clip? Go right ahead...

Well you get the general idea from one second.

One of the clever things about the track is that as well as not sounding like anything the Sugababes have done before while simultaneously sounding like a brilliant Sugababes single it also fits in perfectly with the brassy, Ronsonised soul sound of pop in 2008 (well, 2007) but, unlike a lot of stuff cluttering up the music industry at the moment, it doesn't sound like it's trying too hard to pull the sound off - one of the Sugababes' main selling points has always been how effortless their hitmaking seems, and it's a theme that continues with 'Girls'.

We would also like to mention here that there is a COMPLETELY EXCELLENT portion of the introduction where the intro drops out to make way for a brilliantly deranged waily Sugababes 'WHOAH OAH I DON'T NEED NO [SOMETHING OR OTHER] ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME" before the track launches properly with a big chorus.

There is a good marching band bit and the four best lyrical bits on the song are:

1. "Monroe's got nothing on me."
2. "Tonight we rule the world, beware cos here come the girls."
3. "With or without a man I feel complete."
4. "Stop speculating, I'm a regular girl."

While it's perhaps slightly deflating that the comeback* single isn't a brand spanking new song, and whiie releasing the tune from a Boots ad might prove an easy target for people who like to keep themselves busy talking about how the band have lost their edge, it's a great track, it's unexpected and, like 'About You Now', it's a reminder that one of the luxuries the Sugababes have as the UK's longest-running girlgroup is that they needn't endlessly position themselves as genrebending sonic pioneers with every new release. Rather, they can just concentrate on banging out the hits. Which is what we have here.

Don't be surprised if you hear this track everywhere - not least in ad a few breaks - as the year draws to a close.

* 'Comeback' in the sense of 'their last single was released five months ago'

www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2840&Itemid=206

[That Skipping Rope.]

I'm assuming this is going to be the single they try to break the states with. From the theme, it sounds like a great introductory song for them.

Taio Cruz produced this. It premiers tomorrow on Capital.

[That Skipping Rope.]

I like this well enough. It'll grow on me, I'm sure.