Girls Aloud's Debut Era: B-Sides, Bonus Tracks and Extras

[00:00:00] Are the other three even on it? Like those choruses sound like a church choir. The dips? Herrible! There was no sense of arching the back, bending the knees. It was straight leg, flat back.

[00:00:15] Oh you liked the song One True Voice decided to sing? Well we recorded it too and it's on our single so you don't need to buy their single. I love that. Like it's so petty it's like amazing.

[00:00:25] Fewer discretion is advised. Your faith will be criticized. That's Chris. That's Shan. And welcome to CCTV The Nonstop Pop Show. And we will be rating and discussing the B-Sides and Bonus Tracks from Girls Alouds Debut Album Era.

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[00:00:58] So join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash cctvpops and become a part of our amazing crew including Lily, Lisette, Emily and Juliet. Subscribe now and let's explore the world of pop music together! Yeah so we already discussed the standard album tracks from Girls Alouds

[00:01:16] Debut Album Sound of the Underground so definitely go check out that review if you haven't already. But as we know the album was repackaged in November 2003 following the release of Jump

[00:01:28] and all the singles from the album also had some B-Sides so we have a lot of songs to discuss for part two of this debut album era. Yes indeed. So let's get into it! We will now go

[00:01:42] track by track and discuss the production vocals and lyrics and give our ratings for each song and as you're watching or listening along be sure to let us know your ratings

[00:01:51] as well so let's do it track by track. Yeah so first up we have Stay Another Day which was done by Anthony Michael Mortimer, Dominic Hawkin, Robert James Keane, Dennis Ingaldsby, Andrew Murray and Christian Ballard and though ultimately released as the B-side to Girls Alouds debut

[00:02:13] single Sound of the Underground, Stay Another Day was actually the contender to also be a lead single which is crazy thinking back and the song is a cover of 90s English boy band East 17

[00:02:28] whose version was the UK Christmas number one of 1994 and member Tony who wrote the song about his brother that had passed away was very confused by the romantic slant quote-unquote of Girls Alouds version but fun fact Esther from Eternal actually provided background

[00:02:46] vocals in the track as well which you can totally hear because these vocals man oh so I am obviously I've lived with Stay Another Day you know it was the second Girls Aloud song I ever heard so I think my thoughts might be very different from yours

[00:03:03] who you probably heard it for the first time preparing for this right? uh yeah actually yeah I think you have met Neato years ago when you first got me into them

[00:03:13] back in 2020 you said oh yeah and it released this and then we went to ask that you paid it for like 30 seconds and dipped out it was so funny because I was like wait wait wait I'll try to get

[00:03:22] into it you're like no that worth it and I can see why you said it it is not Sound of the Underground um and for them to like not choose this yay yay um I can't say that this song is like

[00:03:36] the best thing I've heard um it's not the worst either but I can only imagine what it's like to hear something that you've dedicated to a family member being turned into a romantic bop as

[00:03:50] the kids say um yeah it's a little strange in that sense the performance is um it doesn't help either I guess I guess the whole thing with Christmas people want sentiment and they don't

[00:04:03] want like party girls and I get it I think Sound of the Underground is a great risk to take though honestly especially with one true voices release it's just why do another like slow kind of mid

[00:04:14] tempo song it's like why I mean even if I hadn't heard the original I or not known Sound of the Underground or Girls Allowed I think the song isn't like terrible I will give them that it's

[00:04:26] not terrible it is dramatic sounding with this it sounds a little bit desperate I'm singing it so wrong I always sing things wrong but yeah it sounds a little desperate but the longing tone

[00:04:38] of the whole song like you miss someone like I get the original meaning but the girls really sound like they're like not letting go of someone who's already moved on without them I will say that

[00:04:47] the longing tone does add a bit of urgency and I do appreciate that so they understood the assignment and I appreciate that there wasn't like any belting to make it even more dramatic like if this is like a Celine Dion track or something there would be some uh

[00:05:00] you know saying so I appreciate that they didn't like go too overboard because it already has a little bit of a uh desperate sound to it because of the romantic slant as opposed to the sentimental

[00:05:12] kind of ballad it kind of like took the meaning out of it it's weird but speaking of eternal we did a pop 101 so be sure to check them out because they also had a song that was covered

[00:05:23] by Monica you know Angel of Mine but that covered me since this one just felt like what can we do this was oh this one it just felt kind of just random honestly I'm just glad it wasn't their first

[00:05:36] single yeah I mean if you look at reality tv shows this is a very typical song that would be released by a winner of a reality tv show right so I get it as the choice I actually do really like

[00:05:49] the original version yeah by E17 it feels really sad which obviously makes sense and the actual melody of the song is quite beautiful actually I also enjoy Kylie's version she has a cover of this on one

[00:06:03] of her Christmas albums as well and she also kept it very bare and very sad as well so yeah I think the girl's loud one maybe just has too much energy or something maybe because the production

[00:06:15] as well actually I think the production of the girl's loud version is all right like it's very full it's very lush they did what they could to add some elements because they just they do so many

[00:06:25] choruses at the end and like at least in the production you know there's a lot of strings that build and there's extra drum rolls and simple hits so they they did what they they could

[00:06:38] there is a radio edit of it that makes it much shorter so that really should have just been the main version of the song honestly but I will say I do think Cheryl was the right choice to sing

[00:06:48] the verses yes you know she sounds very delicate she has a nice rasp to her voice you do get to hear Nadine do some little riffs and ad-libs through the choruses but otherwise the vocal production

[00:07:00] on this that choir or I don't know if it's just Esther just repeated over herself but are the other three even on it like you can tell this is not the five of them like those choruses

[00:07:13] sound like a church choir it's found in for sure it's definitely called it I don't know how I feel about that sorry guy yeah and then the performances as well oh man the the hips ways that they had

[00:07:24] to add is they're hilarious it's like we got to give you some choreo to do just just so the whole thing is just odd like I think the lord they found some of the underground

[00:07:42] and and think the lord that they decided not to even put this as the double A side because that's what one true voice did right they did one original song and then they did sacred

[00:07:50] trust which we'll talk about shortly so I think girls love we're gonna try and kind of do the same thing but soundly underground is strong enough to stand on its own oh yeah absolutely only wasted a couple promo slots on performing

[00:08:06] you know but to be fair I want to have something more traditional this was a safe one to go and maybe it did convince some people to buy the singles so right it's right it is what it is

[00:08:16] it is an audience for it for sure no you're right you're sorry actually but in the grand lexicon of girls loudest discography this is very much at the bottom it could be for me their absolute

[00:08:27] worst song actually so I will give it a two how about you if you guys couldn't tell I'm very shocked two is the lowest we've ever given on the lowest I've ever given but girls loudest scarp be so good

[00:08:40] so it's such a high standard right so this is just way at the bottom oh my goodness wow this is I was just gonna give it a five this man said dead kill it destroy it okay I was gonna give it

[00:08:54] a five like so in the middle because it's not terrible it's just not them and it's this is basic it's very basic yeah so I'll give it a five up next it is sick of trust and was written by the bg's

[00:09:07] members Barry Murray's and Robin give and produced by Ian Conroe and girls will loud record this song as a marketing ploy during the pop stars rival competition since their arrivals one true voice

[00:09:19] had chosen this bg cover as their single but ultimately it was not included on the sound of the underground single and was released much later on the greatest hit compilation of 2007 the original bg's version was recorded in 1998 and released on their 22nd and final studio album

[00:09:36] this is where I came in so this one is interesting we have three different versions that we have something to compare it to get there the original their competition and now their own I love the

[00:09:49] idea of them recording this like the fact that they were like oh you like the song one true voice decided to sing well we recorded it too and it's on our single so you don't need to buy their single I

[00:10:00] love that like it's so petty it like amazing and I think if you think about it in that sense where they're like this is just a joke kind of thing and a marketing thing you know it makes sense that

[00:10:12] they didn't need to put much effort into recording it you know both production wise and vocally and everything it sounds like a demo right but at the end of the day for its purpose it works for

[00:10:23] sure I do think again like stay another day I think the actual song is very good like the bg's are great writers has a really beautiful melody their version definitely I don't know it's just

[00:10:36] so signature bg's you know so I much prefer the original for sure and also to be fair to the one true voice boys like before we even get into the girls loud one the one true voice version

[00:10:48] actually is not bad like no it's not their production choices were pretty good like I like the guitar riff that's now leading it they added a lot of r&b vocal stylings in there the dance beat I think

[00:11:00] was maybe a little too much took it a little too far but you know they made it their own I think you know but I do think the song was kind of doomed from the start because I think

[00:11:10] music in general was already starting to come out of this super cheesy kind of boy band ballad thing and so I think it just wasn't a good choice from the get go for one true voice like I think they

[00:11:21] were kind of doomed in that way but also like the bg's didn't even release this as a single like it was just an album track so if it wasn't even good enough for them to release as a single

[00:11:31] like I don't know just a very weird choice yeah but what do you think of the two other versions I guess before we even get to the girls loud one you know I know that this song is an album

[00:11:42] from like came from the album before Maurice is passing but the sentiment didn't really like that kind of sentiment doesn't make me like the song anymore or any less like the original sounded okay to me like the album itself was a beautiful sentiment but it doesn't compare to

[00:11:55] even like their previous album still waters from 97 I think a lot of fans felt that way about that's the album too it kind of was like oh this is this is okay but it's not like

[00:12:04] them at their peak obviously because oh with all that was going on at the time but yeah I think the the original sounded okay itself the melody is quite nice as you mentioned they are good at that

[00:12:13] I will say the the one true the one true voice version wasn't like terrible but it was definitely clinging to its I guess the origins of its disco-y you know you know because the bg's did

[00:12:28] disco they think they they blew up in that air like that was their wheelhouse yeah and so they thought hmm bg's cover kind of disco flourishes uh-huh and I'm just like no um so I kind of like the idea

[00:12:41] of them trying to kind of give a nod but this song did not call for it and I think them choosing this song off this album was not their fault but whoever it was like oh yeah for either group

[00:12:54] wrong yeah blame pete waterman mr waterman no he's done great work but yeah not the best choice there yes it wasn't your best thing regarding the girl's loud version I will say Nadine does sound good on

[00:13:09] those verses she sounds very sentimental um and she also added her own little riffs and stuff she sounds really good and you can actually hear the other ladies on the chorus it definitely

[00:13:20] sounds a bit like middle school choir though like group of girls just yeah singing this chorus just very unemotionally they probably east just went in once and they're kind of like okay we're good

[00:13:33] oh my god yeah yeah again taking into context what this track was recorded for though that makes sense again though we get a ton of choruses at the end and then of course they tried to like emulate

[00:13:45] that tension build that is in the bg's version but then they end it with like these Christmas bells in the back um and then Nadine has all these extra ad-libs and stuff and the ending with her

[00:13:55] extra note is really funny to me it always makes me laugh like what was that it's all right it like the production sounds like a karaoke track right like it sounds like the one the fake ones and

[00:14:05] in the fake you know behind the fake music videos at those Japanese karaoke places with the random feels like people on the subway yeah the random people walking around so yeah it as again as a

[00:14:18] joke song this is this is fun but that's it oh my god yes can i just say like it sounds really basic and then i appreciate the attempt to maintain the main like the main melody but then like

[00:14:33] like you said it comes across like really cheesy but the the chorus instrumentation becomes like this like max martin style and i was just like what does that what is this random like

[00:14:43] switch up i feel like i want to bop on my you know it becomes mid tempo and cheesy and the bridge what was the i was like oh it turned into a christmas cult and i was like get

[00:14:54] me out of here you know how i feel about christmas music honey so then bell started jingling i was like get me out of here and then freaking Nadine at that

[00:15:04] give me out of here give me out of here give me out of here so that being said this one is worse to me okay then first track so i'm gonna give this one a fat four okay fat

[00:15:16] at four um how do you feel about it i'm gonna match stay another day and give it another two oh holy crap this is he's a chanel all right so moving on out of the debut single era let's move on to the no good advice

[00:15:36] era because we have the b side to no good advice we have on around which was done by caren pool henry corpi matias johansson and black cell and fun fact courtesy of physical

[00:15:50] on pop justice this song actually was covered by johansi a taiwanese pop star in 2009 as well and hers was titled run run so caren pool we've been we've had a we talked a lot about caren pool

[00:16:04] on this show and it's been across all the artists kylie a lot of k-pop now so yeah what do you think is one of caren's earlier songs ah man you can see it's interesting like reading some

[00:16:19] of these older songwriters names on like k-pop songs because they heard some crazy stuff back in their day and this is one of those songs like jays lowey what is this um when it comes in that alarm

[00:16:33] i started singing boys call you sexy oh and they don't yeah that's just me being me but we're really kind of made up feel like a like a really like a like a girl power kind of thing or like i don't

[00:16:45] grow up power but just feels very like marchie where's the drums they remind me of wow wow wow i want candy a little bit um because the way they kind of just tumble in and i thought oh this is

[00:16:55] kind of fun it's energetic oh yeah what's gonna happen oh yeah yeah yeah and then that first verse comes around i'm like okay that's an interesting start so it's like it feels a little clumsy

[00:17:06] coming in like you're kind of tripping into the the verse um but i don't hate it i just heard i want candy a little bit for a while uh but yeah the siren is alarming pun attended um and uh the lyrics

[00:17:18] they're sexy and they're fun and i do appreciate the harmonies throughout the song it kind of makes the song feel like a march you know a marching kind of chant on the way to the rave at the county

[00:17:28] fair like i feel like yeah you know we're all marching down to the fair the lyrics are very much like nonsense but i think that's okay i think that's okay that everything has to be super

[00:17:40] serious um i think my favorite part or part that not favorite part that i appreciate is the bridge with the harmonies after all that whispery singing and yeah i appreciate it and the sense

[00:17:52] after that though they were a bit strange i mean this whole song feels experimental for sure oh god i don't even know how to describe it but what really bothered me i think aside from like the clunkiness and like a little bit of the clumsiness here and there

[00:18:05] top line wise not bad but the alarm in the outro what it was like and it just kept going and i'm like excuse me what is happening like it's mixed in the bag

[00:18:18] it's far back i get it but it's still a choice i had headphones on so i'm sitting here just thinking like what i can't take my headphones off because i live near a fire station and

[00:18:27] around lunchtime it goes off so i'm like you know and i'm like oh no it's part of the dang song so kudos for them like the song just feels very like like hypnotizing with the round round round

[00:18:40] round round round at the end but boy yeah it's a lot that one i realized as i've started doing this show i've started to like visualize music a lot more like i'll imagine settings and stuff that i

[00:18:56] i talked about it a lot but i feel like i never did that before anyway with this song i'm thinking like aliens invading and the first thing they do is go to a theme park and they're like on

[00:19:08] you know one of those crazy rides that where you go in circles and go upside down and stuff yeah that's what the song gives me i will say though if you take this top line which like you

[00:19:19] said is actually very good you could turn it into a k-pop song now let her you could give this to ive you could give this to espa and they would kill it you know um so that's fascinating to hear

[00:19:31] actually and the fact that arie was covered by an asian artist you know shows shows that there's that appeal there but yeah it's very interesting i appreciate kind of the sirens and the crazy drums

[00:19:41] is very attention grabbing oh yeah out of energy you know it's like yeah whoa so i don't mind that in the pop song you know you want you want that and i think the chorus is fun it's very very

[00:19:54] catchy uh so yeah i appreciate it i will say the vocals though there are so many layers throughout the entire thing like even in those verses it's kind of hard to even tell who is

[00:20:06] singing what like i was on genius and someone attempted to do a vocal distribution but i was like i don't know um and i think karin is actually on a lot of those harmonies as well

[00:20:18] because you know she kind of sounds like kylie like she kind of has that kind of voice and so you kind of hear that on here too and so i was like oh i think that's karin actually not the girl

[00:20:28] doing the harmonies like especially in that bridge and that outro as well as like this doesn't sound like any the girls loud members yeah so the vocal production is just very odd to me

[00:20:38] it's like karin featuring the girls if you look at this in the context of the album this matches kind of like marz attack all i need and those other more quirky electro tracks that they

[00:20:51] are going for yeah and it is a different sound from the other girl groups at the time so i could see this as a potential direction to go right um if zeno media kind of didn't fully take over

[00:21:03] so it's kind of just interesting to hear this i will say i do think it's about as good as marz attack and all i need or so actually i prefer all i need but yeah i think it could have been on the

[00:21:15] album and it would have had a place on there okay yeah so yeah i think it's a decent track i'll give it a 6.5 i just gave it a six okay it's not bad i do enjoy the i want candy drums i like those

[00:21:31] all right so up next we have love love love bomb love love love sorry if you're a k-pop fan you know that this song love bomb is done you know by promise nine sorry girl's a lot so i saw this i

[00:21:42] heard i thought promise nine but yes it's love bomb written by alexand clerks and known as bedibu and the beat masters consisting of mike and shon ward and this is a uk bonus track on the original release

[00:21:54] of the album all right see now this is one of those songs where i'm like hey chris you grew with this mess what what are your thoughts yeah i used to hate this song oh like i was like what is

[00:22:12] this it just it it doesn't match any of the other songs they released or maybe i guess it maybe kind of matches boogie down love a little bit yeah i guess but thinking about it now it is almost a

[00:22:25] precursor to love machine in a way like it has that silliness it kind of fits in with that like copa cabana kind of like cheesy cruise performance situation like i could totally see the song being

[00:22:39] used for like some ballroom dance moment in a really cheesy movie taking place on a cruise you know what i mean i have something like that too but i feel like a video game like this is

[00:22:50] like a osc for a video game like whatever game genre if they're at the beach i can just see them oh that works too yeah like a side quest or something or like a side game or like just some

[00:23:02] donkey kong bullcrap like mario party just like it's just and then yeah and then throw the bomb but that bomb in mario cart that's very very funny yeah but to be fair actually like production wise

[00:23:16] it's actually pretty good like all the horns the other instrumentation i like the piano led dance break moment like i could see really good like ballroom choreo to it so yeah i appreciate

[00:23:26] the experimentation but it's just bizarre as a song like i'm amazed that even released it actually but you know it's just a bonus track so yeah i will say sharyl's raps are awesome oh my god yeah

[00:23:44] she's doing what she can also the enunciation is so funny too because it's like kind of an american accent it's not her accent yeah it's not her so she's enunciating very weirdly but

[00:23:53] that she's saying these words like booty and like you know it's just like very very funny um i do think the second verse is the highlight though with the purr and sara doing that feeling kind of

[00:24:05] hawny yeah hilarious i do think like honestly zenomania probably could have taken this and turned it into something really cool absolutely absolutely i feel like the chorus was just like the lazy part for me yeah and it's probably annoying as well because it's just like you could

[00:24:23] left that as like a bridge and you guys spelling i know you love a good spell the out chorus but that wasn't it this time they dropped the ball in the swim um this feels like i wrote down

[00:24:34] like in my notes i was like what in what in the spice world is going on like i feel like they heard spice up your life and was like oh we gotta do something just like that we got a samba too

[00:24:44] but this time just do cha cha cha cha cha cha um but i do wonder like a song like this even if zenomania would have touched it beforehand i feel like spice could have done this too like i think it was released

[00:24:56] around the time like forever was like already out at this point but jerry had already been gone but can you imagine this song with their hands on it their quirkiness already kind of just like

[00:25:07] oh god oh see going something just silly like this would be a funny b-side for me because it's just so like what the f but they'll sell it to you know um i do like the little

[00:25:20] harmony at the end it was cute like if for some reason i'm getting k-pop from this as well um i think because of the cheesiness and i do appreciate it uh i think boogie down love is

[00:25:30] definitely the stronger wonky track though like we're gonna get wonky going like this is not the strongest one boogie down love is the stronger wonky but yeah i do like the production again

[00:25:40] is to give me os t for a video game um bubbles beach side quests i'm here for it and also i do want to also say that i wish we would have gotten at least one little before because i'm

[00:25:53] i want to see what someone would have choreographed that i'm singing it wrong it's ch ch ch ch ch ch i just refuse to sing it properly because it sounds manic as hell but

[00:26:06] so what do you rate this um love bomb is it a bomb is it a bomb what's up i will give it a four how about you you know i will give it a four as well you know it's so funny because i listen to songs

[00:26:18] like i know what you're thinking about you're thinking about my butt like sounds like i think i'm saying the word is wrong but they they've always had kind of quirkiness but this is just

[00:26:28] not it so yeah i think of course is befitting as well all right so next up we have everything you ever wanted which was done by steve anderson steve lee and lisa green and this was also a uk bonus

[00:26:42] track on the original release of the album and we have to shout out you can't mistake their anthology the girls love podcast they spoke to steve as well who we have also spoken to

[00:26:54] and they spoke to him about his work on the track so definitely go check that out because there are some interesting insights in there yes so what do you think of track 15 on the original album

[00:27:04] wow wow this one's so funky and fun and very in your face so far this is the b side i feel that fits the most and with the spunkiness of the standard version of this album um i do think genre

[00:27:18] wise maybe not for a month because like they were in going in that direction like a lot of it was like uk drum and bass and mother pop stuff and they did have something that's a little bit more r and b

[00:27:29] ish what was it um white lies i feel like i feel like i like this a little bit more than white lives but i will say that i think that white lies had a subject matter that the album was missing

[00:27:42] so them being like where those girls where those girls were amazing was probably already on the album already you know you had that i wouldn't have been not mad if this would have been

[00:27:51] featured because it would have made white lies a little bit more like understandable because it kind of stands out on its own as like the r and b ish kind of track and this kind of would have

[00:28:00] maybe supplemented it a little bit or complimented it complimented it a bit more um i think the funky r and b pop with groove groovy kind of you know musical influences is not really their bag

[00:28:14] and i do wonder what would have happened if another group got it yeah much like what i said about white lies i will say that that in the chorus there's a the the uh it sounds like

[00:28:26] everyday people sometimes when i heard it i would have singing that song and i know again y'all y'all can y'all can be like i don't hear it i hear it so my brain works secret dj in the past life who

[00:28:37] knows um but yeah they go uh it was like what a choice but it's not bad i do enjoy the song and i also feel like the whole vibe of it it could have been on a teen movie soundtrack

[00:28:49] like i feel like it's it's monkey it's boppy enough and it's like everything i ever wanted i like that whole kind of vibe and i feel like it could have been like on that teen movie soundtrack

[00:28:59] like princess diaries or something that mandymore could have sung it you know i'm saying i would have loved i would have loved to go oh everything that you wanted yeah yeah or whatever the heck she

[00:29:11] does but i think i want to think on a teen movie for sure and that's my note thank you steve okay yes i get that um so steve did mention so this song was written specifically for them so that's

[00:29:23] interesting because i wouldn't have thought that actually yeah but it was so early on that they did not have a sound yet so it really was that you know you kind of just had sound of the

[00:29:32] underground and stay another day and then it was kind of like yeah right for this girl group but i do think as a song though it's a solid girl group track right yeah it's just that

[00:29:44] you know the group sound just went so somewhere totally different so then now it's kind of like okay this doesn't fit them but yeah you're right i think this could easily go to someone else and

[00:29:53] it would be a really good single for them actually i appreciate how confident the vocals are kind of throughout the whole thing and they also did a really good job with the vocal distribution

[00:30:04] as well because you actually get to hear all five really really well sarah is leading the verses the dean sounds great on this ad lives at the end but of course we have to shout out

[00:30:16] Cheryl's bridge because it's the most 2000s pop moment and her pronouncing me as may hey is the highlight for me it is that breakdown boom chop boom like so yeah i appreciate this for what it is i don't think it's aged well like it's very much of

[00:30:43] the time but i enjoy it for what it is i enjoy the production there's a really great baseline in there um and i and i agree with you i think i do actually enjoy the song more than some of

[00:30:53] the songs that actually made the album but i can see why it didn't sit sonically with the rest as well yeah yeah yeah well that being said i'm going to give this song i mean i think i'm gonna give it a

[00:31:06] seven and i'm not sure if i'm going to be if this is like a generous kind of rating because all the other stuff we've heard before my ear was like finally something decent or i was thinking i was

[00:31:16] thinking 6.5 but hang on wait yeah i'll give it a 6.5 because i think it is just generic because they were just trying to forgot the girls sound and if i didn't know girls allowed as a group

[00:31:27] it just feels like a just shy of great songs i mean i'll give it a 6.5 sit right there yeah okay yeah i would actually give it a higher i'd probably go with 7.5 actually because i do think

[00:31:37] it sits kind of in the middle of of that album yeah of next is Girls on Film done by andy and john taylor nick roads roger andrew taylor simon libone ian masterson and terry ronald this is a

[00:31:54] cover of the english new wave band durandarans 1981 hit and it was chosen by sarah to record as the b side for life got cold and the group promoted the track on a few promotional appearances

[00:32:06] and also included it on the set list of their what will the neighbor say tour yeah this one is kind of like built in to be good so i feel like

[00:32:16] i mean the bass song is great the original is awesome um i will say though listening to them back to back the vocal on the girls allowed one is so bad bad this is lackluster

[00:32:31] bored you know because the original duranduran one is so sexy like the way they sing it and it's more like staccato and stylized and they're and even production wise you get that like really

[00:32:43] prominent hi-hat and that like guitar riff that's like very recognizable and you don't have any of that like this version at all like production wise obviously they made it a lot poppier so there's

[00:32:54] a lot more synths and stuff i mean i think they did a decent job updating it i do wish the camera sounds were a bit more prominent though like they're still in there but that's such an iconic part of

[00:33:03] the duranduran one that i think it could have just been in here especially since this was clearly recorded just for another song to do in their set right that maybe people would know a little

[00:33:15] bit better because you know they're still so new they only had like three songs to perform you know very kind of early pop star situation where you need some covers in your set right

[00:33:26] sorry so yeah i do appreciate the vocal distribution again on this like they each get different lines on here and especially when you hear the live one that they did on tour

[00:33:36] that's when they give it a bit more attitude and there's some nice harmonies and stuff in there so so yeah i appreciate it for what they wanted to do with it and it's kind of it honestly

[00:33:48] i will say the original choreography though is so funny like i mean i think you talked about it in the last review like their original choreographer who did like no good advice and stuff oh my god just

[00:33:59] not the best girl group choreographer like a lot of samey stuff like it's all shimmying and hair flips and like body rolls and stuff and so this is just more of that but the choices they made of

[00:34:11] when the dips and stuff happen are very very funny um so yeah as a b-side it's fine but compared to the original not even close whoops you know uh this cover is fun for what it is but i mean i

[00:34:28] feel like this song was just built to last like much of what you were saying like it's can't go wrong we can't go wrong with this it is what it is like unless you choose to f this up

[00:34:36] it's kind of like it is what it is um but yeah i think it's it's fun in a way because it has like that electro pop feel which does fit them um so again i guess i guess i appreciate it

[00:34:49] but much like what you were saying i'm getting this feeling like i don't know if they actually know the hell they were singing about but i mean hey listen that's sorry i'm just i'm getting

[00:35:00] flashbacks of me getting dragged for saying that someone's saying without soul uh and it's giving me like they are great vocalists right i could easily sing this song right now to you

[00:35:09] but do i know what i'm singing about hell no for the longest time i used to sing um was it overdrive no overload by sugar babes not knowing a lick of what they were talking about

[00:35:21] i just felt so cool singing it and i'm like well once i understood what it was about i was like oh i can sing this a little bit more like the way they sing it now you know say like because i was

[00:35:28] like trains on i don't know his destination i was like what the heck i don't get it but then i understood the song i was like oh trains coming i can kind of add the you know the attitude

[00:35:37] that it needs this situation i feel like they're like oh i know this tune let's just do it you know that's what it's giving i know the tune let's just do it and i'm so sorry if my accent was

[00:35:47] terrible but the tune is just satisfactory at this point um what i will say that the tune's choreography hilarious love it iconic i cannot say enough the dips terrible there was no sense of arching the back bending the knees it was straight leg flat back

[00:36:09] like it was just the weirdest thing it's like you're asking someone who taught modern dance to sit there and teach sexy like commercial choreography the girl was not ready and it just makes the girls look awkward and they're not awkward um but they they did try their best

[00:36:23] and i appreciate it and i will say this is so fun to watch like the performances because i saw this done on twitter a few weeks ago where someone wrote i missed the era when celebrities look cheap

[00:36:34] and then they proceeded to insert pics of our favorite pop acts like incontinence shirts from coals tank tops and jeans from like limited to like back in the day deals with mandys were

[00:36:47] all the rage so those are like oh what do you mean by cheat y'all know what i'm talking about y'all seen the shirts okay y'all seen them and shout out to kimberley in the live concert because

[00:36:57] we bother performing if y'all watch the video around like a minute and 24 seconds they all like three girls go on the steps and she's trying to find her place on the steps there's

[00:37:08] girls on film and she's trying to get herself together but she ends up looking like really she ends up looking really sprawled and like kind of like twisted up a little bit on the on the

[00:37:19] step so i mean it's hard to kind of like make yourself look cool and sexy on steps so shout out to her um and i also want to give a shout out to sarah for hitting that top note because it's so

[00:37:28] satisfying to hear and even though she doesn't have at the time did not have the technique necessary to really like you know make it give it like a full chesty kind of thing she has the

[00:37:38] tone and whoever picked her to hit it thank you i appreciate it so yeah that's all i have to say i miss celebrities look cheap let's go because they killed it with their little tank

[00:37:47] tops and ties let's go girls all right so i you know the song's fine i'll give it a six it's like okay yeah that is six which makes me think i should have given um the song before us seven now

[00:38:03] but it's okay too late it is too late no all right so moving on we have the other b side to life.cold we have lights music camera action which was done by nigel lois paul mehan

[00:38:17] and steve lee and this was actually included on the cassette single for a life.cold so i remember we only had the cassette rip mp3 is like the 128 kvp horrible quality and we didn't get it for many

[00:38:33] years like they didn't release it on cd digital until now actually i don't know if lights music camera action was even on digital until this deluxe version came out um why i'll hide in it what's

[00:38:43] well i well i mean do you think the song was that good i mean listen it's part of history you don't bury history okay it's meant to be found and discovered and reviewed like us like what we're

[00:38:55] doing right i'm sorry y'all don't drag me or do he thought he's my opinion um yeah so this song whoa side of the times when i heard so check out on your plasma screens i was like girl wait

[00:39:09] wait what is the screen what did you talk about will this like it was giving um the production was just peak 2000s yes like those weird like like yeah i can't i can't describe what those

[00:39:27] those really wiry like distorted guitar essence yes i totally got what you mean yes i wrote that too yeah we're both trying to physically articulate what it sounds like yeah it's that like fake guitar

[00:39:42] sin but yes even if you're not watching us you can definitely hear me and chris articulating very well so whatever you hear right now is what it sounds like there's no exaggeration okay um

[00:39:53] and i will say this one lyricist is like taking that sound over ground i was like but who thought they were being clever someone's like yo hang on hang on we got the underground yeah yeah like luvra did this is just to be good here you're killing me

[00:40:12] they thought they did something um between that and then the cheeky beep sections in the second verse there was too much cleverness going on in the song i was like wow this is crazy

[00:40:22] oh my gosh i will say that sarah has the tone that was like perfect for her section her control wasn't there back then so when she hits those notes i'm like how about that

[00:40:31] was doctored yeah just just just just inquiring oh yeah i mean i will say i do want to know if this was written with spice in mind because again i can hear them giving the song what it actually

[00:40:41] really needs like grand and jerry would have been gone at this point like i said but i do wonder what it would have sounded like like i can imagine mel melsey going off given that top note justice

[00:40:54] okay i will i can i can just hear the that xer was trying to do just actually being done with someone who has the chops for it you know at the time um no offense we love sarah

[00:41:06] here we love her uh i just think at the time she's still fresh you're all still fresh you know but yeah this this song is definitely generic and it sounds like the decade it came from

[00:41:18] yes that's a lot to say yeah i do wonder if this was one of the quote unquote a generic girl group songs that brian cut from the original album track list because that would make sense for sure i completely

[00:41:30] agree with you a lot of my notes are the same about how generic it is and how dated it is as well and the mix is so bad too like those wiry stints we were just talking about are so overpowering

[00:41:42] they kind of fight the vocals a bit too so it's just the whole thing because i was thinking you know maybe that's what it sounded like on the cassette but no this is the full digital master

[00:41:51] now you know and it still sounds like that you really can't get more generic than this like melodically or lyrically like other than that sound taking that sound over ground i was like okay so

[00:42:04] this was written for them yeah you know um and also nadine does belt come on the girls at one point and that is the slogan from the pop stars marketing campaign oh cute so yes you're right

[00:42:17] references to them but it's just so cheesy so it's just yeah also the lead into the last chorus makes me laugh as well that choir of aahs and then the helicopter sounds before like the

[00:42:30] stop in like the staccato last chorus with the acapella and the drums and stuff oh my god just so dramatic and hilarious and the helicopter sounds just take it to get to the other level

[00:42:43] um vocal distribution wise though we do get to hear all five again and yes sarah's moment is interesting because i think she can actually sing that very very well i just don't like the way they

[00:42:54] vocoded it and then also they have that whoo that comes on top of her like the big note like it overlaps the big note and it just sounds bizarre so that's just a weird choice okay so

[00:43:08] orning not her own kind my best i think she could have pulled it off properly i think it's the effects and stuff that they put on it honestly so yes just super super cheesy as a girl group song it's fine you know so yeah it's very middle

[00:43:26] of the road for me i will give it a five you know what yeah i'll match you it's very fiveish to me as well i'm next is hopelessly devoted to you done by john ferrah and graham stack it was

[00:43:42] accorded and performed for itv's grease mania which featured popular artists like westlake simi at the mumba and lisa from steps performing songs from the musical grease and michael cragg author of reach for the stars noted that and the dean was given muscle relaxing injections

[00:43:58] due to her extreme hangover before the performance wow great job nadine you were lipstick i don't know why they did she was on lipstick anyway what was wrong like why did they got to they had to make sure

[00:44:08] that chair choreography was on point oh my god oh honey don't get me started please get started i would love to hear what you thought of this performance and song and cover he'll like to

[00:44:21] give like feral over here like let me add them oh you know you know you know you know you know i guess because they were using like a modern for the time a modern midi instead of like live instruments

[00:44:35] that production sounded like karaoke okay it was giving it was giving it was giving like you said the random stock japanese footage and um um highlighted letters it's just uh it's so disappointing

[00:44:49] because i'm sure it's not that hard to loop a live instrument like the song is pretty simple and structure why go through the trouble of using oh my god a computer based audio i don't understand and honey don't even get me started on that that's the worst fire

[00:45:11] but first of all it's it's like she's drinking and she's telling calling her man on the phone but now like why is because when i hear that sound i think of like um all night by jenna jackson that

[00:45:25] has that bouncy sound uh um there's a song on kylie's disco album that has that wingy wingy sound there's a lot of songs that that talk about partying or like having a good time but that

[00:45:34] wing wing wing sound and it's and why is the and i'm i'm in a loss of words when i heard that i thought oh i wonder what they did with the steps with this one boy i was just like yeah i heard

[00:45:48] thought what did the korean ever do to this one because what do you do and it's just so awkward like the the boing makes me think of like winos and um when i was listening to the track with my

[00:46:02] head for home i beg everyone to listen to both us on the podcast platforms and listen to the song after and listen to the kick drum in your left ear on the second verse the whole time it was like

[00:46:17] in my ear and i was like get me out of here what's happening someone was not thinking and it bothers me because this is a deluxe version which means y'all listen to this remastered it

[00:46:29] and still put it out why didn't no one pan this the both sides why is it not this is what it was just my ear oh my god onto positive notes though nicola sounded great in the second verse i think she

[00:46:44] sounded great yes tolerable and sweet i liked her part and nadine she sounded so sultry she can't help but she said but now i'm saying grab you don't get your butt away from this microphone

[00:47:03] she can't help it and then she went to the head voice and i was like girl go off but what bothered me was the last note because it was just so lame and short she said

[00:47:12] and disappeared i do that i won't hit the live performances yet because i'm talking a lot about the production itself and the vocals so let's let me wait okay have me have me wait first let me

[00:47:25] practice by saying i love greece so these songs mean a lot to me so my standards are high you know olivia newton john is brilliant and this is arguably the best song on that in that movie so yes yes

[00:47:38] yes um this production the boing is the most hilarious part and but the i think what's funny about it though is that it's it's isolated like it's used in a bling and that like by itself

[00:47:53] and into the verses and it's so reverbs yeah it's like oh my gosh so you thought you were also you were doing something with this you thought you were making like a really cool choice here

[00:48:04] so yeah very bizarre i agree with you though vocally i actually think they all sound really really good sharyl you know she uses her vocal fry very effectively and she does sound very

[00:48:14] delicate but she does that very very well i think more so than her belting like when she sounds really kind of soft like this it's it's really her bag then kimberley she sounds super full and it this song

[00:48:24] sits in a really nice spot in her range you know she's a musical theater trained vocalist right so that makes sense that the song kind of fits kind of with what she can do vocally and sarah's

[00:48:36] chorus is nice too like i maybe think she's belting a little too much on it too much but the actual vocal itself is pretty good i think maybe just the choices made maybe weren't fitting of

[00:48:47] the song but i think she sounds good um but yeah nicole is for sure the highlight like i think this was maybe the longest verse we got from her at that point in their career right because she only had

[00:48:56] like one line year and like one line year and so it was that it was nice to hear her do all those riffs and she made some really great choices actually with what she was given

[00:49:07] yes and yeah nadine i mean we love nadine the brilliance yes but yes the performance so i did not know that nadine had that extreme hangover like that before but you could tell the

[00:49:20] five of them did not want to be there no not at all they looked mildly embarrassed turning in those chairs like that oh my gosh it's so funny but now and they come back around they do it twice there's no

[00:49:39] at a skirt i need someone to do like a music remove like you know those sounds yeah i can feel fine clop clop clop as they're trying to tear oh man yeah it's so funny the the

[00:49:55] costuming also they look so cheap at those dresses that they're in i will say sarah looks like alivia likes they did the hairstyle from the movie so i was like whoa she really looks like libya there

[00:50:06] but yeah i would love to watch the other performances from this show i remember i think west like did grease lighting and that was really fun i remember yeah but i did buy this soundtrack

[00:50:16] because girls loud was on it so oh that's nice of you that was generous to support a fan but wow this cover was not yet no the performance is so funny because sarah's like

[00:50:29] she's smiling so much did i'm like girl you're in the second your mouth flap should not be that wide okay first of all and i gotta say if you look at i love nicole i love her so much she's great

[00:50:41] she's a quirky little sister but after the second verse the choreography falls apart they're off you want to talk about a good time bro ages kept falling apart they could not get it i don't know

[00:50:55] what's going on they're all hung over i guess so they were out of sync and the spinning in the chair was just jokes you can see sharyl in the background said they're like you see a dimple when that

[00:51:06] dimple starts to appear you know she ain't she don't take this seriously yeah but i think they all got paid a lot to do this special absolutely because that the choreography was so off like

[00:51:14] this little foot motions and the head drops and the body pops it was just off the rails we got to look after what samantha mumba did though i wonder what song she got oh yeah oh man probably um rizzo

[00:51:27] song oh i could see that yes with that vocal tone yeah yeah yeah all right so jokes aside i mean okay here's the thing i think again vocally it's really good so i think that bumps it up slightly

[00:51:38] for me so i'll give it a five how about you he said it's body it's like middle the y'all give it a five two it's kind of just it is what it needs to do because i feel like as the recover is okay it

[00:51:48] shows up they they show so they can sing but it's not their yes they reinvent the wheel or anything yeah so girls allowed for the only act on greece mania to get two songs on the compilation

[00:52:00] and they actually did the title track greece as well yeah and this one was written by barry gib and their version was produced by betty boo and the beat masters so they came back one more time

[00:52:11] this would be the last time we ever get the eddie boo and the beat masters girls but they came back to do the beat masters remix of greece and this was included also as a b side to jump as well

[00:52:25] so they didn't perform this one unfortunately no but i actually prefer this much more to hopelessly devoted to you yeah um yeah and they probably could have done something really fun with this so that's

[00:52:37] really too bad but okay so shout out to betty boo and the beat masters because production wise i actually think they did a great job interpreting this for girls allowed yes you get this whole electro dance

[00:52:50] moment um oh yeah yeah totally sped it up quite a bit compared to the original as well and to be fair i love the original version i love frankie valley's voice it's obviously very iconic and yeah his

[00:53:02] was obviously a lot more organic you have strings and you have guitars and stuff with the disco element but you know still more organic so them yeah upgrading it to this kind of full electro pop disco

[00:53:14] situation for growth loud totally makes sense um i will say the only choice i do think is maybe takes it a little too far is that uh yeah in the back i was like okay i don't know if you need that

[00:53:29] for this and but there are strings that come in as well so they do kind of nod to the original so i appreciate that but yeah just the um and the yeah that i think are maybe a little too far

[00:53:40] because they didn't make it quite sultry right even the way they sing of course breeze is the word that's the way they're singing it it's like sultry and sexy um let's just

[00:53:51] think it's an again it's an interesting choice but makes sense i guess for a girl group um and but there are some nice harmonies on there i do again love nadine's little ad-libs at the end

[00:54:01] but you know i think at the end of the day the song itself is so good like the melodically just melodically the top line is just so good that it's hard to do it really really badly

[00:54:13] so i appreciate that they you know attempted to make it their own and i actually enjoy this cover and i do listen to it once in a while yeah no it's nice i think this one's cool i think um the little breakdown the laugh of illusion like

[00:54:31] i think the little pume pume pume lasers toward the end kind of like add the nice little thing and then yeah have a dance break moment like it feels like something that the pink ladies would have done

[00:54:41] this is you know if they if there was a pink ladies version of the gree sound track the gree song on the gree soundtrack this would have been a cute little fun little addition

[00:54:50] you know frenchy and the girls just kind of pre-sist the word you know so i appreciate it um i will say the frankie's original version is a lot more cooler but this is fun like this one

[00:55:04] kind of makes you feel like okay this one could be taken anywhere because it was so bare but not like basic it was just right for the time right for the song it was for the guys it

[00:55:13] was danie's song he's the one using the grease hello his car was dripping the grease but this kind of gives a different like girly flare you can see like you know a little bit of a

[00:55:22] disco moment there's a cowbell like honey it gives what it needs to give but i do wonder what would have happened they would have just given a little extra some you know give me a real dance

[00:55:32] break with some real bridge and a breakdown but i do appreciate the ad-libs at the end i think it's great i wish you would have gotten performance like you said some actual you know step touch

[00:55:43] and point and point you know at the end of the year like come on that deserves choreography but you know instead we got the skirt skirt chairography but what can you do um all that

[00:55:57] being said solid cover for sure and i was actually pretty surprised um that they covered more songs than what i thought actually i'm not gonna lie i mean i did more covers yeah so what are you read

[00:56:08] i guess want to hire a score i'll say this one's a saving because the other one they need help yeah this is like but this is crazy because it's like so good i know but it's not their song

[00:56:16] sucks yeah i will match you with a seven yes yeah all right all right up next is another cover and it's a jump done by gary paul scardina marty sharon steven michael and produced by brian

[00:56:32] higgins and zedomania originally recorded by american girl group the point of sisters in 1984 girls still allowed were chosen to record a cover of the track for the love actually soundtrack in 2003 although it wasn't used in the movie itself the film's director richard curtis called Zeno media

[00:56:51] specifically about it the song is credited by the group and everyone involved for being a massive turning point in the group's career but their album sales doing only okay and they were actually in

[00:57:02] danger of being but jumped gave the girls an opportunity to showcase a lighter and more fun side of themselves and it was a massive hit hitting number two on the ukech heart and i remember

[00:57:15] you showed me the song and me being like oh my god i like this i think i even listed this as one of my favorites yes right before no one yeah you were like i thought i was gonna do well

[00:57:25] i don't speak french and i was like no this is a song yeah i mean i like this cover a lot so much and i love the electro popness of it and i just think it fits their personalities

[00:57:39] and their voices really well like oh my gosh something about it is just just right and it sounds like nice next to sound to the other i could listen to sound to underground and then

[00:57:50] listen to this and be like okay this fits on the album you know so kudos to them for reproducing it in a way that makes sense for the time makes sense for the girls and also the vocal production itself

[00:58:01] it matters you know i'm saying because the point of sisters you know they're from america they were giving a little bit of soul and you had the dean holding it down that first part of the verse

[00:58:11] and the show comes around a very sultry uh and then the girl singing together as a group is just so well i love the unit since singing and then you break off with some harmonies here and there

[00:58:20] oh man it's so fun to watch them perform it too and uh yeah i can go on around about how much i love this song so i'm glad it's not going to give away my score yes yeah i agree with you i think

[00:58:29] zenim media killed it with the production they did a great job updating the track um because the point is this is one is fairy eighties right so kind of like what we were saying with greece

[00:58:41] like to make it more dance pot a bit cooler um and just a bit more roller coaster as well like the bridge and the pointer sister's one doesn't really sound like anything honestly like

[00:58:51] production wise like it doesn't take it anywhere different but then the girl's one's very dramatic like the way they did it with kimberley and then the dean doing all that so i appreciate that they

[00:59:02] did elevate the song quite well i will say vocally yes they do sound great but poor nicola getting the one line yes like the performance is nikini laugh because she always does the absolute

[00:59:16] most because her line is just oh it feels so right like that's it right and so there's performances where she'll be like oh this because she'll like belt a crap out of it she'll like do a huge note

[00:59:29] at the end of it like it's hilarious to me because she like doesn't do anything else the entire song so anyway i appreciate it she's like even if i'm gonna give it a hundred ten

[00:59:38] actually i won't catch me slack you giving me these four words i'll do these four words yeah i'm crying i will say i appreciate the union singing but i do wish the harmonies in the

[00:59:51] chorus were a little less session singer like it's giving me kind of what stay another day had right like you hear a lot of other voices on here and especially when they sing it live

[01:00:03] you can hear in the backing track it's not them like it sounds like karaoke choir backing vocal behind them damn i don't love that i don't love that i will say though it is really really fun

[01:00:17] live because it's just such a feel good song it's like oh yeah obviously it's gonna make people want to jump as well like it's hard not to do that right at a concert um and it really did play

[01:00:28] such a pivotal role i remember like being a fan obviously when this came out and you could really feel the momentum that came with this song being released as well so i will always appreciate it

[01:00:38] for that too but yeah what do you think of the music video you gotta love the ost music videos from like back in the 90s and 2000s because they really just did not cry give it crap they were like

[01:00:50] i've not seen love actually oh i know i know i know i know i know i don't know damn we're not a movie podcast but you should definitely see that but yes and it has one of the best pop

[01:01:01] soundtracks of all time but yes continue you know what i do love a good rom romantic movie i think you enjoy it i think i would too it's not that christmasy oh is it christmasy well it was released

[01:01:13] during christmas and there's just one because it's like about a bunch of different people and just one of them is more kind of christmas focused because he's like a pop star who sings a christmas

[01:01:22] song but yeah so thank you for the beat of the yeah the background okay okay so is the video having to do with the the movie yes so they are breaking into Hugh Grant's character's house and he

[01:01:34] plays the prime minister yeah oh okay okay i think it's hilarious and them listening in the walls like sneaking through the window i don't know how they got up there in that big old house but

[01:01:45] they're in the window i think like the funniest part for me is them and during the bridge so they're when you are next to me yes within the dark and chest popping and booty popping

[01:02:02] that had me in hysterics because even without the context of knowing everything i look at it i'm like why not in the dark what's going on i mean it's supposed to be sultry but it's just y'all

[01:02:12] look like a bunch of just ragamuffins in my house each and they're in the prime minister's house it's on his desk so it's very scandalous yes i think it's so much fun watching them come down

[01:02:25] the stairs and like dancing and singing and dancing throughout the house they're terrible for like this video i'm in the bed i'm on the wall i'm coming to the this is they just like they're

[01:02:35] i don't know they never find him really but i think it's cute um it is the lens flares on the screen the fan blowing i'm like this the very involved house um but yeah it's simple enough it

[01:02:48] does what he needs to do they look hot it looks like a fun time which is why i'm like oh i love their performances because i'm like this video there's absolutely nothing for me in terms of adding to

[01:02:59] the song this is but their performances they are like giving it their all and they know that they don't have to actually dance dance because the audience is like we're not paying attention we're listening and vibing you know like they don't oh yeah the original choreography during the

[01:03:12] promo run was awful oh my god it was awful it was just very clunky like it was like jump and then they don't do anything and it's like in the body roll yes like oh my gosh yeah this is very clunky

[01:03:26] okay so i have very different feelings i think towards the video because i'm a huge fan of the movie right so i love seeing all the clips of the movie i think them using that huge grant

[01:03:36] extra had to kind of dance around in the halls was very fun um and you know like you said it's for a movie so they take one scene and they do what they can with it i do wish there was a little bit

[01:03:46] more of a story like maybe they crash a meeting or something at the end or something but you know they probably didn't have the budget to pay for cameos for anyone so it was like okay you guys

[01:03:56] get the set for a couple hours go right that's what it was giving that's what it was giving for me i was like um but yes i agree the bridge is definitely the best part that dark lighting

[01:04:05] and the flashlights and the thriving and the and the chest popping thriving yeah yes yeah as a song i mean i think i enjoy it obviously and obviously played a huge part in girls louds career but again

[01:04:20] their standard is so high that among all their singles i would not list it as on my favorites so i'll give it an 8.5 yeah i was actually gonna just give it an 8 because i think

[01:04:29] surrounding all of the songs during this era and just me thinking about this time for this to be the song that kind of like say their lives not a bad choice yeah and it also was was an amazing

[01:04:39] it was not really off too off what they were going to do next so just you know not thinking about what we know now yes definitely and thinking about how i felt when you were showing me like

[01:04:48] the whole trajectory i was like oh this is a great song i'm gonna give it an 8 as well so yeah all right so we're on to the last track from the debut album era so on the re-release they

[01:04:59] did have one more new song and that was you freak me out which was done by brian higgins lean nice drum of aqua maranda cooper and tim powell of zenomania and this was actually written for the 2003 disney film freaky friday featuring lindsay lohan and jamie lee kurtis

[01:05:18] and they did release the song just as promo for the movie to radio and they did perform it on tv once as well so what do you think of this disney track yeah you know i do appreciate

[01:05:34] i'm gonna give a roast before i'm gonna give a toast before i roast okay i'll say that i do appreciate the the unison singing because they all have different tones but it feels like you know a girl punk pop kind of situation um so i appreciate that

[01:05:55] but i'm done now so the chorus comes around and it bothers me because i'm thinking to myself wow this is not like a bunch of 20 women 21 year old 20-something year old woman should be singing

[01:06:03] this um it just no and then i thought to myself wow good thing they didn't keep this whole concept because if they would have kept this concept it would have felt like a farce because

[01:06:13] they don't play any instruments so i started like nitpicking and i was like oh my god i cannot like it kind of fits on the album in a way you know a little bit because of the rocky kind of thing

[01:06:23] but it's too american um it's very american yeah yeah so it bothered me a little bit and i hate that halloween line like after whoo it goes down for me um yeah i hate that halloween line

[01:06:36] again it is for a disney movie like you said so i was like oh god it just throws me off it's just a little lazy the chorus is not really like yeah that well thought out and i'm kind of

[01:06:46] i kind of feel like it's because it was for american song is that why you didn't want to try but what can you do i can see why it's a b-side this was the one that should have been on the cassette

[01:06:55] tape just saying um the the lost cassette tape i think this random break in the middle was just unnecessary and i think they may have a little slight tambourine moment but not long

[01:07:08] enough so no no good advice revival there was a guitar solo but we already have that which is crazy because the freaky fighty soundtrack here in america like the the band's actual the pink slip song

[01:07:19] was so good so they hear this it's just like eh well this didn't actually make it onto the soundtrack right like i mean maybe did it in uk but but i don't think it's in the movie is

[01:07:30] it i mean someone from the uk tell us but i'm pretty sure it's not in the american one you know i think as a disney movie song it works like you have the you know kind of cheapo pop rock

[01:07:44] kind of fake pop rock kind of situation yeah you could see demi lavato singing this or something you know from back in the day and not in a bad way i mean you know what i mean though it's like

[01:07:54] very much in line exactly it's very much in line with all of that and the angsty lyrics i think are actually kind of fun to be honest like some of the lines at least are are funny like

[01:08:05] they're not super generic right they're clearly giving angsty teenager rebelling against their parents but they're so immature that you know they're probably thinking like as a kid they're like thinking they're like totally given like a grade burn but like in real life it's like i

[01:08:21] think you're weird it's written on your resume like i was like oh my feet don't fit in your sensible shoes yeah see that's what i don't like that's why i think it's funny i think it's funny

[01:08:32] because if you're thinking about it in the sense that it's like a 13 year old singing it you know what i mean yeah so for that i think it's fine um vocally it's okay i think the distribution is

[01:08:45] good but again they all just sound a little bored and then at the lyrics are i've got to scream i've got to shout but they're singing like i've got to scream i've got it's like they

[01:08:55] sound so bored and it just doesn't match yeah they shout it they're shouting not are they energy between that shout not much not much feeling behind that shout um so yeah well what did you

[01:09:11] think of the one performance we've gotten the the special stage if you will thank god because i will say i like the little freddy murky broken mics in those are funny yeah what are those called

[01:09:23] the half mic stand oh quarter mic i don't know okay the same thing then yeah it was i think choreography wise is so funny could they go whoa it freaks me yeah the little jumps and the using

[01:09:36] the the hand they're using the mic to just do like body rolls against yeah yeah it was giving like the overhead pull down i mean it's probably the best choreography that they've had which

[01:09:49] is crazy gosh and from this b side yeah for sure oh i think that but it's true i think like the big part is them coming in the line with it and then like you know like singing like doing these

[01:10:03] weird gymnastics with the with the mic stand and sarah not singing a lick of the words but it has time to put the sleeve down like things and then the explosions again it's just it's

[01:10:15] just giving cheese like garganzola cheese gouda cheese they really do sell it though you can't you can't look at this and think wow these girls are like not really giving their effort they are like

[01:10:27] they're throwing their bodies or leaning that terrible jumps happening so i appreciate it dropping yeah i'm here for it i give them points for that i think what like but what i find really funny

[01:10:38] about the performance is that they clearly again kind of look embarrassed it's the same facial expression that we get in hopelessly devoted right like they are all kind of like why are we doing

[01:10:49] this kind of situation i think sarah is really the only one kind of give in her all everyone else is kind of just like oh my gosh this song is not for us especially the older members too right

[01:11:00] because you know they're probably 22 ish at this point and it's like oh my gosh why am i singing this like stupid song but you know it was for a soundtrack again hopefully they got a lot of

[01:11:10] money for it i part of me also thinks like you know that they were struggling in this era like you know yes they were charting okay but you know girl groups are expensive and all of them sales

[01:11:19] weren't great so you know they're probably just saying yes to everything so it was like oh do you want to do the song over the soundtrack yes do you want to perform at this grease thing yes

[01:11:27] absolutely bye do you want to do a second song yes you know like it's like yes um so yeah um so yeah this song is it's okay i'll give it a 5.5 how about you

[01:11:42] big fat four oh wow okay interesting okay so we've completed reviewing these b-sides and bonus tracks so we're now at our cut or keep section so if you had to only cut one song oh shoot

[01:12:00] uh god i know there's a lot to choose from here which isn't normally the case right like yeah guys when we get to this section it's usually like oh man i don't know what song to cut really or like

[01:12:12] there's like only one just like yeah yeah yeah but this is this is a lemon tree yeah yeah quite a few quite a few yeah um all right so the song i'm gonna cut is sacred trust i think as a whole

[01:12:29] the song was buried for a reason once you've wasted any make a hit for a reason and this was not going to be like that one either for a reason like it's just not

[01:12:40] come on come on man love got cold does what it needs to do like you don't need this like okay yeah here's the thing again i appreciate sacred trust for the fact that it's just petty right

[01:12:49] right like we're gonna record the same song that once your voice are um so for that i will not choose that and i will choose stay another day because i hate their version i really hate their

[01:12:59] version you said i hate it yeah see so okay in terms of the keep okay i'm gonna not let myself choose jump because i think that's the really obvious one so out of the actual b sides the

[01:13:12] one that i listen to the most out of all of these is actually their cover of grease so i'll stick with that oh yeah okay um even though i didn't give it like the highest of ratings i do

[01:13:23] actually like the idea of it so i'm going to keep everything you ever wanted okay yes good choice all right so we've now completed the debut era of girls loud and now we can i'm really excited

[01:13:36] because that we can move on to you know what will the neighbors say and and all the yeah the real gems in their discography but as a newer fan what do you think of the debut era

[01:13:47] oh that's right i'm only three years old yeah i'm a baby i'm joking i'm not gonna say that um i love baby like shut up but you know i am a newer fan uh thank goodness no offense this album was

[01:13:58] this this this b side bit was was rough because i'm like it's fun to listen to though it is but it also is mild torture because i have to sit here and be like what did i just hear

[01:14:09] and have to listen to it again um i'm joking i'm really dragging i'm totally i think i mean just for community purposes but some might be like she's so serious right now um but yeah i think

[01:14:19] it's interesting to see like what could have been like just one album after a competition show and just you know crashing and burning and then finding out now what is their career like they

[01:14:32] became the second coming up second coming up spice girls but they became the the heir to the spice throne and it's just like if you listen to this album and i were to show someone this like oh yeah

[01:14:41] they came up to spice grab i'll be like yeah okay which is why i am really excited to get to the next up too so yeah it's just really exciting to kind of like get ready to do that so you want us to review

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[01:15:04] stuff but still your health lots of girls love stuff on this channel i mean obviously i was a fan from the beginning but you know the quality was there was quite a range in the quality of their

[01:15:16] output at the time but it was great being a fan because they were saying yes to everything right like it was like oh they're gonna they have these random songs on this grease soundtrack oh yeah

[01:15:26] oh they're like performing here there are so many performances from that era like they yes i think no good advice there's like hundreds of performances you can find because they were literally doing it everywhere they possibly could so as a fan obviously i have a lot of

[01:15:39] attachment to this whole era but a lot of these songs have just aged horribly but it is fascinating to listen to the stuff they did with the non-zenomaniac producers because it's just experimentation right so it's just different so yeah very much enjoyed

[01:15:59] these two episodes and very very excited to talk about the next ones oh yes so it'll be buddy exciting school let us know in the comments if you wish album exactly don't have to go in order

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