Tuesday 20th May 2003
Girls Aloud continue to raise the stakes in pop with the release of their debut album ‘Sound of the Underground‘ on May 26th 2003.
Across 15 glittering tracks, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and Cherl Tweedy have dared to suggest that songs needn‘t be dull, that singers should never be dumb and that tilting one‘s microphone stand at a 45-degree angle is the sexiest dance of them all.
Girls Aloud‘s number 2 smash ‘No Good Advice‘ has proved their charttopper ‘Sound of the Underground‘ was not a one-off and their album will prove they‘re more than two-hit wonders.
Recording of the album started in the New Year. Once again the girls have worked with Brian Higgins and Xenemania - the team behind that song. Betty Boo and The Beatmasters have also reunited for a number of tracks; ‘Mars Attack‘ which jumps and fizzes with the trademark Girls Aloud sound and the electro-rock anthem ‘Boogie Down Love‘ which has a neat ‘girls gotta do what a girls gotta do to the groove‘ hook before it collapses in a heep of feedback.
The girls switch between styles on the album. They show their darker side on the moody ‘White Lies‘ proving they don‘t always need a baseline jumping in the backstreet light. ‘Forever And A Night‘ is an epic windswept ballad while ‘Girls Allowed‘ is a sassy, attitude-laced disco track set to cause murder on the dancefloor.
Girls Aloud are currently jet-setting around Europe where ‘Sound of the Underground‘ is rapidly climbing the charts and looks set to repeat its UK success. Over the last month they have been promoting the single in France, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Holland. The single has also started to chart in Australia and South East Asia . An unusual degree of success for any new group, and unprecedented for one with Girls Aloud‘s history.
Incredibly it has been less than six months since Sarah, Cheryl, Nicola, Nadine and Kimberley came together as Girls Aloud as winners of ITV‘s smash ‘Popstars: The Rivals‘, but already they are fast becoming the definitive modern pop group.
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