POP 101: A Guide to Cheryl (Part 1) - "3 Words" Era

[00:00:00] What does the name Cheryl mean to you? Does it make you think of girls allowed? X-Factor? Or that time when Cheryl swan dives onto the voice stage? Well, good. Today we're heading to POP 101 Class and learning about Cheryl, also known in the UK as the nation's sweetheart.

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[00:00:34] We do have a free tier as well. So yeah, I'm hanging out with us. Woo woo! Wasn't this a request from one of our CTP producers? It was a request. We have some girls allowed fans within our little Patreon crew.

[00:00:45] So yes, lots more girls allowed to come too. Oh my gosh, that's right. We have just kind of scratched the tip of the iceberg. Iceberg is less scratched. But the point is, we've just started at the GA tour in terms of their album.

[00:01:01] We are finally talking about the solo. Yes, we do have the episode. We do have the episode where we did do a little pop-up between all five of them and their first solo single. So we have talked about Fight for the Fluff before, so definitely check that out.

[00:01:17] But yes, we're finally actually talking about her solo career. Here we are. Okay, I'm excited because I feel like my, as much as many Americans rather, I feel like my experience with her has come in little moments, almost like fever dreams if you will,

[00:01:34] or is this like, wait, hang on. Why do I recognize this face? Why do I recognize the dimples, the eyes, the hair? Why do I know this song? So yeah, I feel like I've grown to like her and get to know her my own way.

[00:01:47] I did some little pond call my name years ago and I think certain songs like in K-pop had influences of Girls All Out. So when we kind of listened and started getting into Girls All Out, well for me, I got into them because of you.

[00:02:02] I was like, this sounds like a K-pop song. You're like, no, the K-pop song sounds like Girls All Out. So it was really fun to kind of get into them and then find out who she was finally.

[00:02:10] And yet also she gave me a shout out at that concert. Ow! Yeah. So she has a special place in my heart. The little dimple darling won me over. Not just with a shout out, but just in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure.

[00:02:24] I mean, obviously I am a huge fan of Girls All Out. So I did support her in her solo career. I watched X Factor UK. Oh, shoot. Actually went to one of the tapings of X Factor US as well when she was here. So yeah, I've been supportive.

[00:02:41] I definitely prefer them as a group. Yeah. But yeah, I've been as supportive as I can as a fan. That is so valid. Yeah. Some of our parts. All right, so you're two professors. No, Cheryl. And if you do or you need a little refresher,

[00:02:57] let's get it started. Class is now in session. So of course, as we said, we all know Cheryl as a member of Girls All Out, one of the biggest British girl groups of all time. But she has had a very successful solo career in her own right.

[00:03:14] So even in the early days of the group in the early 2000s, Cheryl was a tabloid darling. And some of that was because of some controversies that she got up near the beginning. Up down. But it was actually largely helped by her relationship

[00:03:30] and marriage with footfaller Ashley Cole. That's right. Oh, to be a wag in the early 2000s. That's right. And for those who don't know what a wag is, it's wife and girlfriends of athletes. And it was kind of a derogatory term I think.

[00:03:46] I mean, I think it still is. But here in America they made a show about it. So I don't know how bad it is here. But yeah, her popularity rose significantly in 2008 for two main reasons as we mentioned, because she was a wag and married

[00:03:59] to Ashley Cole the footballer. Unfortunately there's a lot of attention on their relationship. And first it was revealed that Ashley cheated on Cheryl and has garnered a lot of public support for her as she navigated the media scrutiny. And then secondly, she joined the coveted judging panel

[00:04:14] for the reality competition series X Factor, along with Simon Cowell, Danny Minogue and former girls allowed manager Louie Wals. And the show thankfully was her like jump off point I would say, like a positive attention for her. And it was one of the most watched shows

[00:04:29] in the country at the time. So it helped her prove herself to be an extremely competent judge. And she won two seasons with Alexander Brick and Joe McElderly. So that's awesome. I can't lie and say I actually know who Joe is, but I do know Alexander Burke.

[00:04:45] I remember her whole situation was kind of cool. I was like, oh snap, who's this lady? And when she's saying listen with Beyonce. Yeah. And I'm like, come on. What is that? That's amazing. Literally, he's the next factor. X Factor was amazing at the time

[00:04:59] because literally if you got a performance opportunity on X Factor, you were like, it was almost guaranteed that it would be a hit, that it would do well in the charts because that many people watched that show. TV was powerful back in the day. It really was. Yeah.

[00:05:15] So Cheryl was very lucky for sure. And Girls Allowed was lucky too. Girls Allowed definitely profited off of Cheryl being on there. But yeah, I think Cheryl, of course she does have the X Factor. I think even from the very, very beginning

[00:05:31] of Girls Allowed, she had a very striking look. She's a good performer, very natural performer. And she has a recognizable voice. I think people have often criticized her for her voice saying that she's not the best singer, so why is she allowed to judge other singers?

[00:05:52] She's a star. But the X Factor was always about more than just the voice. It's like the whole package, which she definitely has. And even from the very beginning, you could just tell why people loved her. I mean, she does have kind of the perfect rags

[00:06:08] to riches type of story. Because she comes from kind of a more, like not as nice part of the UK. And she's just always been quite blunt and real. Like even from the beginning of Girls Allowed, there are so many funny interview moments

[00:06:24] where she is like ranting about Nicole and the Pussycat Dolls. Or just all those iconic moments in the Girls Allowed docs where she's just complaining or hungover or whatever. So yeah, she was perfect on the X Factor. And plus she obviously went through

[00:06:40] a reality show very similar to that. So then I think that naturally helped her gain respect as well. But she always gave really good critique. She guided her acts really well. She was respectful of her other judges. She pushed back when she needed to

[00:06:51] and defended herself when she needed to. So yeah, I thought she was awesome at it. Yeah, I think from what I saw from some of the clips inside, she is a natural person. I think that is what's really important. Like you mentioned, because she did have her

[00:07:07] her Geordie upbringing and kind of... I think I watched an interview and she mentioned that she was unable to afford her ballet education and got a scholarship if some sort from a sponsor of some sort. And I was thinking to myself, okay, you know, she really gets it.

[00:07:21] It's not like she was just like, I'm really pretty and I made it. No, don't get me wrong. Her looks definitely played a part. But even when she won Pop Star, she was like, Jack, come on. It wasn't like, oh my God, I'm here. It was like, yeah.

[00:07:36] She was like one of the guys at a freaking football match, if you will. I think just scored her goal or something. So I think she's always maintained her personality as someone that was approachable. And even within the group, when you showed me,

[00:07:51] I was like, oh my God, who is that one? I think he had to show me like a couple tours. Even if her voice wasn't like always there, I was like, no, I'm still looking at her because she's gonna give you 110%. Hell yeah. So with that being said,

[00:08:00] especially with her experiences from the Pop Stars rivals, all the way up until Girls All Out's like hiatus, she probably was the most, I think it might have been a well suited to do it. Yeah, I mean, it's almost like perfect, a kiss mitt, if you will,

[00:08:17] that she was able to do this and give someone else an opportunity that she had. So just makes sense, kind of bringing in the next round of superstars. She didn't put a group together. It would've been cool if she had managed to do that.

[00:08:28] But like, yeah, I don't know if she ever got. The group says a category actually. I think someone will have to remind us because she did come back later on. But yeah. So yes, moving forward with Cheryl's rise in popularity, as I mentioned earlier, Girls All Out

[00:08:44] reaped the benefits as well. They were getting bigger and bigger and they had more and more opportunities. And one of those opportunities was a brand new ITV2 documentary series called The Passions of Girls All Out, which is a show in which each member,

[00:08:59] except Nadine, who attempted, I guess, one taping and she was just like, I'm not doing this anymore. But the rest of them would go on to explore one of their individual passions outside of singing basically. And Cheryl chose street dance as her passion

[00:09:17] and this led to her not only dancing in the music video, but also her first solo vocal appearance on a song as a feature on Will I Am? single, Heartbreaker, which was released in May 2008 and hit number four in the UK charts.

[00:09:31] Let's break it down, let's break it down, let's break it down. Heartbreaker is an interesting one. It's such a strange feeling to watch Will I Am? in retrospect, the hindsight of his, like, I guess, star dome at the time was insane.

[00:09:55] Like it's, I'm not saying he was untalented, but like obviously we all knew him from Black Eyed Peas and he went to go work with like, to anyone and Nicki Minaj and obviously Cheryl. So for her to get that was huge.

[00:10:07] I'm like, wow, I mean, look back, I look back on it. Oh, I think it's Fedora, big glasses and ill fitting suits. And I'm like, oh my God, how in the world did this guy manage to like top the charts? It doesn't make him untalented.

[00:10:18] They saw him just being silly. But yeah, no, when I heard it, I was like, she's just out there, what? But it sounded good. It's a nice way to introduce people who were fans of Will I Am at the time to her voice.

[00:10:30] Even if it is a little bit generic in terms of not really showing people like, oh yeah, this is Cheryl. But it's still a nice way to have a vocal that is not furgy on a track that doesn't sound like a Black Eyed Peas song.

[00:10:40] And also gives her an opportunity to show people that she can dance outside of the, you know, the heels and the just image of Girls Aloud. Yes. I mean, she was always the best dancer in the group. You could totally see that.

[00:10:54] So being able to see her do those moves that got really popular because of the step up movies. I hate to kind of give this up a movie like that kind of credit. But for a lot of people who did not understand

[00:11:03] like hip hop dance outside of Dina, those Dina dance tastes, the girl with the blue suit, you know, the ah, ah, you know? The hip hopper, people didn't know. So with step up, it was like, oh shoot, this is really cool. Oh my gosh.

[00:11:18] So she definitely did those moves. It was a good time because the dance felt really popular and it's a good thing for her optics. But yeah, I do wonder like how that Will I Am thing happened? Good for her. But I'm just like, holy crap, Will I Am?

[00:11:30] Yeah. I did read some interviews and stuff and I think it was just the record label kind of just thinking of the opportunity because I guess Heartbreaker was on his album and there was just like a miscellaneous like random vocalist that sang this part.

[00:11:43] And so I think they were just able to kind of piece the opportunity together. I did actually rewatch the Passions of Girls Aloud episode because I didn't really remember it. Like that wasn't one of my faves in terms of the Girls Aloud docs. Right.

[00:11:56] It was fun. So basically she trains both in London and she actually goes to Millennium in LA. Oh, yeah. She trains there. And I couldn't tell because she's like struggling quite a lot and then like you have clips of like Kimberly and them being like,

[00:12:10] oh yeah, like we don't hit that hard like in the Girls Aloud dance routines. Like they're super easy. So this is like a very big challenge. But I feel like it, I don't know. It felt like she was, they were just trying

[00:12:21] to make it look like it was more of a challenge than it actually was for her. Because if you watch the actual choreo, like. It's not that hard. And it's not. Yeah. And so it's like I'm pretty sure she could do this pretty easily.

[00:12:35] But obviously for that episode, they need to make it like a super traumatic. Right. This is struggle. And then like at the, you know, of course of the video, you know, you have kind of the typical kind of members of groups coming out

[00:12:46] and being like, oh God, I'm so nervous. Like I'm by myself while I'm doing this. But she kills it. She kills it in the video. She looks so good. The song, I mean her part is very, very easy to sing.

[00:12:58] But I think it was a great way to get her feet wet. And just strategically it was smart. You know, it was technically part of a girls allowed documentary project. And the pressure wasn't that high because they were like,

[00:13:13] oh like she was supposed to be in the music video, you know, and she just happens to sing also like half the chorus. Like, you know, like, oh. So, and yeah, he was a reliable partner in that.

[00:13:25] He was like you said, he was kind of at the height of his kind of solo fandom at that time too. But yeah, as a song it's fine. Yeah, I agree. It's catchy. Yes. Do I listen to it all the time? No, but I don't mind it.

[00:13:38] I don't skip it when it comes on, you know? This is okay. That's valid. That's super valid. So after the documentary girls allowed Tseka Hayes in 2009 following their out of control tour and concert at Wembley Stadium with Coldplay and Jay-Z. Ooh, look at that.

[00:13:56] And Cheryl was full steam ahead with her solo music. And her first single was, Five for This Love, released in September, 2009. And the song was extremely successful hitting a number one, not just in the UK, but all over Europe. And it has actually sold a lot more

[00:14:20] than any girls allowed single. That is horrifying to me that this song sold more than any other girls allowed single. I mean, I'm happy for her that it was not successful, but it makes me just more sad that girls allowed wasn't more successful, you know what I mean?

[00:14:36] Because they deserved to be. Anyway, yes, the single was also nominated for best British single at the Brits in 2010. She did perform it at that ceremony as well. But yes, aside from the fact that it has sold more than any other girls allowed single,

[00:14:51] I do actually love Five for This Love. We did film an episode where we kind of already did the big deep dive about Five for This Love and the other debut singles of the other members, so go check that out if you want

[00:15:02] kind of just a deeper discussion on the song itself. But I will say like, the song is good, but she could have released anything and it would have been huge honestly. Like maybe not as big as it did because it did hit the charts in countries

[00:15:17] that girls allowed never made it in, like in Europe and Australia and stuff. So I think that maybe is more based on the song. But in the UK, her profile was so big and so positive at the time that that definitely helped with how well it did.

[00:15:34] But yeah, like I said, I do enjoy the song. It has a nice melody, it's super catchy. She sounds really good and the video is super memorable. Like that red military outfit and all the salutes and all that, like it's very, very memorable.

[00:15:48] And I think the whole marketing around it was just smart. Like again, they did a good job like trying to make sure it was done kind of with girls allowed to blessing in a way like Cheryl. Yeah, so like Kimberly, Nikola and Sarah were all there

[00:16:06] to support Cheryl and the audience when she performed it for the first time on X Factor and she killed it. Like that performance is so good. So yeah, I thought all the marketing around it was really good and I do like the song. Yeah, what do you think?

[00:16:22] You know, I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't think I've really actually liked it. I think even when we did our review, I was like, okay. Yeah. The song is still not one that I think is all that great still. Like I don't care for the production

[00:16:34] but I think it's the drums and the bells and all that stuff like that. Like the remix on the album definitely makes one song. Yeah, definitely does it work for me than the actual like, there's a certain cheese that comes with it because like the hip hop beat

[00:16:48] and I'm not gonna hold you. I'm gonna say it now. Pop music when it tries to do hip hop in the early 2000s is not good to me because it's like kind of like these white people take on what they think sounds quote unquote, urban

[00:17:01] and this kind of had that feel for me. I will say though, I think with all the cool pop around here, the song kind of was like a perfect response to what was happening because like, you know she's freshly in love, well not freshly

[00:17:13] but she's in love with this person and most people don't just leave after the first cheat. It's kind of like, okay listen, just don't do it again kind of things. We're gonna fight for this, we wanna make it work. So I think the sentiment of the song

[00:17:23] definitely is really interesting because it almost has like this J-Lo effect where it's like, who is she dating now? What song is she gonna make about this person now? And I do appreciate this kind of being the, I guess answer to and least the,

[00:17:37] in my opinion the answer to all that gossip. The performance of the song were super cohesive. The military styling, I enjoy it. Again, I just can't really stand some of the choreography for this like the hip hop part.

[00:17:49] Like the, it was just go like Dina hip hop basics which kind of stinks because she really can dance. I just feel like certain moments of the choreography was just really like cheesy and very basic which is fine. You don't have to be like sitting there like

[00:18:05] doing your body every which way but something about it just felt a little bit like awkward. But yeah, I mean this is coming from somebody who didn't grow up listening to the song, who listened to the song maybe like what? For the first time.

[00:18:20] Yeah a couple years ago. Yeah. Not a couple years ago. I wanna say maybe like shoot because I thought it was a Timbland track because of the drums. It sounded like a Timbland track at the time. It sounded like Shakira's anything you want boy

[00:18:31] anything you make it yours anything you really want. Like to me just give it to me I think it is Shakira and Timbland. I have the same kind of military style. I watched the video because the Ray Kay influence

[00:18:43] and at the time I was like really into A. Marie and they had the same director Ray Kay for the video. So I paid attention to it but I don't think I liked it as much. But yeah, in terms of melody and like song structure

[00:18:54] and everything around the song it's iconic for its military styling the lyrical content, the colors featured in the video the song is not terrible. It stood the test of time in a sense where like it's the most recognizable sterile song like people can sing it

[00:19:09] and even the melody of the chorus was allegedly copied by a Korean producer for another singer song. So as long as not terrible in terms of like melody I just personally think that certain elements are a little bit like, okay it's cute

[00:19:20] but is with the fame that propelled it or is the song like really good? I'm kind of on the fence about that. You can come from me as a fans I understand but I'm just saying but yeah, like I said it's not a bad song.

[00:19:31] I was just like, hmm interesting first attempt outside and to like solo serleness, you know. What did you think of the Burt's performance? Oh it was very MJS which I appreciate. I mean at this point if you're gonna do military he's already kind of did it.

[00:19:47] And it's crazy, it's so interesting when you have like these artists create such a like an iconic visual presence. It's like at this point you know which is laying into it cause otherwise it's like why trying to fight has already been done. Yes.

[00:20:01] So I think she did a really good job. I enjoyed the all whites. I would have appreciated a little bit of a what's word for it. Wait was this the one where she did it was the Robin S interpolation? Yes.

[00:20:16] Yeah okay so I can't say that I liked what they did with that. That was again, it's cheesy because instead of actually having it make it sound like it's a really well mixed almost like a DJ mixed transition. It was like stop and then play the song

[00:20:31] and then play the song and have some random vocalists or background singers sing that things that we were like vocalizing and then come back. We gotta fight, fight. I was like come on. Yeah the mashup suddenly disappears.

[00:20:42] Like they should just kept it for the rest of the song or like I don't know I agree with you. Like the way they did the mashup I thought the idea of it was fun. Yeah. But then it kind of it doesn't like follow through

[00:20:52] fully and like yeah. Yes I agree with that. I appreciated the huge army of female and male dancers though and that she kind of switched it like with the costumes and stuff like it kind of all switched up and the build was good

[00:21:07] but yes I agree with you with that. But I think it was still a good performance. She performed the crap out of it. Solid. Yeah yeah yeah. It sounds solid. For sure. Yes so Cheryl's debut solo album Three Words followed quickly and was released in October 2009

[00:21:23] and with Will I Am as the executive producer the album had many dance pop elements but was more R&B influenced than Girls All Out's material and with positive reviews the boost of her X Factor appearance and a TV special called Cheryl Cole's Night In

[00:21:38] and of course her extreme popularity in the general public. The album was very very successful commercially it hit number one in the UK and it was certified three times platinum as well. I mean she definitely deserved it for sure.

[00:21:52] I don't think even with all the hoopla around her like I've been saying I don't think that's the only reason why she's famous she's obviously very talented otherwise it would have been like a very negative response. So me saying like oh yeah you know

[00:22:04] no it's just like her fame or like no but it got way more attention because of her fame. Yeah yeah. So that being said though she's super talented I think for me the album was okay it's just had a B-minus for me in terms of like overall sonics

[00:22:18] in terms of like the mixing and things like that but I think it's a stylistic thing from region to region cause I was listening to songs from around the same time here in America and the vocals would be like loud certain drums would be super loud

[00:22:32] like I think it's a mixing thing that was really popular at the time. But yeah it was not a bad album. I think like I said with her being a media drawing it definitely helped. She had some tracks that I did enjoy

[00:22:48] on there but I feel like for a first attempt it was okay I think it really bothered me with some of the like will I end track? I can't lie. It's just he. It's a lot of them too. Yeah and it just kind of takes away

[00:23:02] from her a little bit for me I don't know what that is but like it's just okay I don't know how to describe it but something about it just feels like his hands are a little bit too much in it. Yeah.

[00:23:14] And it didn't allow for the album to breathe or have any sonic versatility in my opinion but it doesn't make it bad it just makes you feel a little bit more restrictive to what I think she can do cause she has a great lower range

[00:23:24] she can hit higher notes and a lot of the songs will allow for her to actually open up her voice and sing that well unless someone else wrote it because then after that you're just sitting there repeating a bunch of phrases because it's cool to do with EDM

[00:23:35] and I'm like dang it, dang it she can sing give her a chance. Yeah. I mean will I end? Definitely has a sound and just comes very very clearly in this and yeah like a writing style like you said like there's constant repeating of stuff like yeah.

[00:23:50] I think overall it's a solid debut album I do think the singles are very very clear standouts and I would probably say that for all her albums actually but I think it's pretty cohesive and each song is different from the next

[00:24:06] like even though if you take all the Will-I-Am songs you can kind of tell that they're all him but at least they all kind of are different in their own way even though they sound like him. So other than the singles

[00:24:16] I do enjoy Rain on Me maybe the most and that one actually does allow her to belt a little bit as well so I think that helps and I like the Teo Cruz song Stand Up Oh he was hot man.

[00:24:27] Also because he was so big at the time too so he was a good get there. He was hot everywhere. But yeah I remember like really liking maybe like half of it of this album but then when she started performing it like I remember there being fancams of

[00:24:41] I think Make Me Cry which is one of the Will-I-Am songs that I just didn't think much about but then she like just performs a crap out of it you know so then that always helps to She sells things very well. I think it was a little safe

[00:24:54] I think Will-I-Am as the partner she says in interviews that he really helped instill confidence in her to do it solo. I still think there was I mean we can debate a lot about a lot of this cause like she in her book like she blames Nadine for

[00:25:12] wanting to go solo and that she had no plans to go solo but you know the record company was planning this from the get go and she put out the album faster than Nadine did like within a year of Girl For Loud's you know hiatus so

[00:25:30] I don't know there's just So many layers. Yeah a lot of layers there. But yeah I think the songs with her voice it does feel safe like you said like vocally there's not much risk being taken there's even the songs there's not much risk being taken

[00:25:43] but I think that's okay for her like solo debut to be a little safer. That being said in December 2009 Cheryl released the title track Three Words featuring Will I Am as the album's second single. It was those three words to save my life It wasn't complicated Wasn't premeditated

[00:26:07] It wasn't underrated But I'm so glad you stayed And Cheryl has noted it is her favorite song on the album and it peaked at number four in the UK singles chart and it also made appearances in charts around Europe and also Australia.

[00:26:19] What do you think about this one? This one is a little bit less like dance, yeah, dance Yes I actually really like this one I actually really like this one Like it's a cool song and because she was so popular at the time

[00:26:31] and the album already did so well it's a perfect opportunity for her to take a little bit of a risk This is definitely the most experimental song on the album I would say It has a really satisfying build Yeah And there's elements of the way it's produced

[00:26:49] that make it feel kind of cold It's very electric, obviously But then the lyrics are so sweet and warm And the way they're both singing it it's like kind of eerie Yeah There's like a creepy love to it Yeah, yeah, yeah

[00:27:05] But then also like a sincerity to it too More on Cheryl's side than will I am's side I'm crying He's not gonna have a lot in That's part of what makes it kind of creepy because it's like Do they actually feel the same?

[00:27:15] I don't know, it's like interesting And the video is great too We get Cheryl in all these wigs Like we get blonde Cheryl Yeah Like the contemporary dancers like doing all the flowy stuff So yeah, I'm a fan of this I think this is a highlight

[00:27:30] like across Cheryl's discography Oh yeah, this one is a good one I think I appreciate the attempt even with the album I don't think I said it Yeah If I did, I didn't articulate it well enough but I appreciate the attempt to differentiate herself from the GA catalog

[00:27:45] Like I don't hear the group singing They're like, could they? I guess But exactly It's like, oh, I don't know They won't have you know That's good That's very good but it wasn't so polarizing It was like girl, girl, girl Get yourself together

[00:27:59] So this song is so minimal and requires like an emotive performance in terms of her with all I know I'm like whatever but with her she has to sound like she means these words And she does She does considering the I don't know

[00:28:15] There's not a lack of dynamism in the vocals but I can tell that he definitely wrote the song sang the song and was like I want a female vocal on it and she follows it to the letter to however he wanted it So

[00:28:29] I think she did a good job for what she was giving because like you mentioned his voice isn't really giving much He's very like I'm gonna sing like this and I'm gonna sing like that It's very monotone Yeah He doesn't know how to use his voice well

[00:28:39] but he does know how to direct other people from like particularly what he wants from the vocalist you know what I'm saying So yeah I believe her when she says like he definitely gave me the confidence I love the style of the video it reminded me of

[00:28:52] Janet's Rock with You like how they have this continuous like Oh yes You know spotty orgy shot But the way these go One of my favorite Janet videos too Oh good The way they filmed this one was like this kind of like this two sided POV

[00:29:04] of like the male and the female and then it was just her and just random shots but still the same shots continuously and I was like what's going on So there's a lot to look at and not feel overwhelmed by it but also just enough to kind of

[00:29:18] look and be like Ooh what's why is she wearing this wig with the veil and oh why this looks a little eerie and like you said it's creepy it's like this gothic pop electro fantasy and I kind of like it I like it a lot Yeah

[00:29:29] Now even though I like this one I don't know if I like the next single as much but let's just get into it The third and final single from the album was Parachute and it was released in March 2010 and it peaked at number five

[00:29:41] in the UK single charts with the music video featuring Derek Hough and the song was also nominated for Best British Single at the Brit Awards in 2011 Okay Now before people come at me heard like me like why don't you like the song For me the song

[00:30:06] the production's good the verses are really strong and the chorus is false flat words like one two buckle my shoe buckle my shoe one two and I don't like that It was just so like Oh interesting If I have my parachute I got you I got you

[00:30:21] I don't need my parachute it just feels like for me that's so cheesy and cringe and a little bit lazy on the lyricist part because like I get it I get it like I'm not gonna fall I'll or if I do fall but I'm not gonna just crash

[00:30:35] and burn because I have you I get it but I was like oh my god come on that's so lazy um the song in every aspect though is it bold it's romantic the sentiments are there the good parts are there I enjoy it

[00:30:47] even the bridge when it repeats itself I can appreciate which is why when the chorus repeats itself and that really like just one two buckle my shoe away I just like get me out of here but everything else was super solid I like this song I just

[00:30:59] when the chorus comes around I legit roll my eyes I'm like I can't but that doesn't mean the song is terrible I just think there's certain points of it like that chorus I just think oh my god Oh that's interesting um because actually I love parachute actually um

[00:31:12] I understand your points though like yeah that's an interesting point I never thought about it that way um but yeah so actually maybe I have a soft spot for it also because I actually did learn this on guitar and I played it my friend sang it

[00:31:26] like in or so I think you sent it to me like years ago and yeah yeah and yeah so I performed it with her so I also have like a soft spot for it a little bit it's valid it's valid but I actually think

[00:31:36] it's a good pop song it's kind of haunting I kind of like the kind of monotone kind of repeated melody like I think our execution is good in it like there's like just enough emotion in it so yeah I don't know I think it's effective so yeah

[00:31:53] but no that's just interesting what do you think of the video and like the kind of ballroom kind of feel for it I enjoy it because ballerina's it's a style I've always like really enjoyed but as I mentioned before her ability to emote is very very good

[00:32:10] so I think even not just vocally her face translates emotion very well too like if she's sad you see in her eyebrows her eyebrows are very expressive her face just has a lot of I feel written all over it like there's passion when Derek's like

[00:32:26] tossing her and picking her up she has that you know you know the look that the ballroom dancers give each other like the smolders he does that well she does longing well like the video was so good I think at the time ballroom tango the whole

[00:32:41] scene was very popular because of dancing with the stars I know strictly come dancing was the UK version I'm not sure how big it was in the UK but here in America it was like oh my god like you didn't have to be watched

[00:32:51] at the view on that show now it's become that kind of thing which really sucks because I would love to be on dancing with the stars one day but I think it was a good idea to do Derek was like the hottest thing since slice bread

[00:33:04] I mean he even did like that movie with boa at the time so he was like pretty hot to do things with right so I think it's a good look the chemistry is there the song kind of fits that again military style without being like drums

[00:33:19] it was just more like not militant but it has a drum focus yeah it's just a march to it yeah exactly a march to it so I appreciate it and I think again with all that was going on with her marriage the album and this song definitely served

[00:33:34] as an answer to the hair and the gossip and like a diary into her mentality and also her fortitude passion and intention as an artist as a life as like a freaking human being like I think overall the whole thing was just really good

[00:33:48] and just the color scheme of everything just fits with the passion and the and the risk taking of falling without a parachute or with one excuse me so I liked all of that interesting interesting yeah yeah okay well moving on to the next era

[00:34:10] time for a recess break stay tuned for part two where we discuss the messy little raindrops and a million lights eras plus that mess that was the X Factor US see you there