In My Dreams I Feel Like We Are Forty Stories Tall...

Girls Aloud have released their new video for their third single off Out of Control, the epic Untouchable. Untouchable is an electro pop smorgasboard lasting over six minutes. The radio edit is shorter sadly. Anyway, the new video is full of fierce poses and the girls floating in pods in space until they come crashing down to earth. The images go well with the song, but I wanted more plot which many Girls Aloud videos lack. Sarah is sporting a very Lady GaGa-esque outfit though. That's a plus. All the girls look fantastic in their black leather sexy outfits. A little more plot next time girls. Good song though. "It's only real when you're not around..."

New Video!

Girls Aloud are releasing their superb collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, The Loving Kind, as their second single. This video is perfect for the song. It's glamorous and fragile, in a weird way, with all the glass. The red, black, and white color palette for the windows is quite cool. The video is a lot of posing and wind machine blown hair. That don't matter to me. The girls hit those drama queen moments. Also, I love Nicola's (the redhead) bit around 1:36. This song is pure sad disco. Love it.

New Girls Aloud

The new album is out!! I'm so happy! The songs I've heard are very good, but I don't know if it will match the near masterpiece status of last year's Tangled Up. I 'm loving the song the Pet Shop Boys contributed to the album. It's called The Loving Kind and it is honestly, one of the most beautiful and sad songs of the year. The first time I heard it, I loved it. It's similar to last year's Call the Shots, but I think it's better. I love the part after the first chorus when Nicola Roberts, the fragile voiced singer of the group (center in the picture above) sings "I'd do anything sing songs that lovers sing if I could change your mind am I not the loving kind" She sings it with so much sadness and heart; it's beautiful. Then, the song slows down and goes into this equally sad part about a train station and a crowded platform: "Somewhere on a Monday morning in the rush hour of another day standing on a crowded platform carelessly we lost our way". Amazing lyrics. The transitions in this song are seamless and it's a very subtle song as well. I love after they sing "disinclined" in the chorus how there's the subtle "ah ah ah ah" in the background. This song sounds shiny, metallic, and sophisticated. So pretty.

Girls Aloud Madness

Girls Aloud's latest single The Promise was Number 1 on the UK charts for the week. The song had been number one on the UK iTunes all of last week. This is so exciting. This is their first original number one, as in not a cover, since their debut, Sound of the Underground, back in '03. Very exciting.

Here are the gals performing the song on various British shows: T4, X Factor (kind of like American Idol) on which Cheryl-farthest on right-is a judge this season, and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. They look gorgeous in all of the performances, but the dresses in the X Factor one are particularly stunning.





T4-


Friday Night with Jonathan Ross-



X Factor-

Tidbits

-The cover for the new Sugababes album has been revealed. I'm not loving it. It looks like the girls were cut and paste from different locations. Oh well, I'm excited for the album. The second single will be Every Heart Broken.

-The track list for the new Girls Aloud album was in British newspaper The Sun today (October 4). Here it is:

The Promise
The Loving Kind
Rolling Back the Rivers
Love is the Key
Turn 2 Stone
Untouchable
Fix Me Up
Love is Pain
Miss You Bow Wow
Revolution in the Head
Live in the Country
We Wanna Party (Bonus Track)

-I'm liking these song titles. The Sun has heard the album and say: "I’ve had the exclusive first listen to new album Out Of Control and I can report it is yet more pop perfection from the lovely ladies," Oh boy, I'm excited.

Tidbits

-Girls Aloud new album will be titled Out of Control and will be released in the UK on November 10!!!! I'm so excited. Kimberely Walsh, second from right, says the new album is: "a lot older sounding...It wasn't intentional - it was just kind of how it went...The '60s thing is quite prominent... But it's out of the ordinary. Not really what you'd expect," (Source BBC News). This sounds very interesting.

-Kings of Leon new album faired well on the US charts, coming in at #4 after having sold 75,000 copies. You go, boys!

The Definition of Fierce

Nadine (left and right), Sarah (middle)

Girls Aloud released their video for the new single The Promise yesterday and it is really good. It involves the gals sitting at a drive-in movie theater watching themselves performing 60's girl group-style in matching dresses, in black and white. The gals all look super retro yet modern in the costumes they wear in the car while watching the movie. I love the part when the blonde dame (Sarah Harding) with the pixie haircut just belts her "Here I ammmm! Walking Primrose" part. It's just amazing. My favorite member is my beloved Nadine. She's the big voiced one on the far left, in the black and white scenes. Her weave is on fi-yah. I love this song more and more every time I hear it and this is one of their best videos.

Tidbits

Girls Aloud new video for their genius single The Promise will premiere on AOL Music tomorrow morning, and it will be on the gals website. I'm so psyched! Also, apparently the album will be released on November 10, according to Wikipedia (don't know how reliable that is).

-Awesome pop website, Popjustice, have heard the new Britney single, Womanizer, and they say it's good. Thank goodness!! Here's what they had to say:

Stylistically it shares a lot in common with Rachel Stevens' 'Some Girls' but in Britney terms it's a brilliantly executed mashup of 'Toxic' with the last album's more insane moments like 'Ooh Ooh Baby'. Most important thing: it doesn't fade at the end - the beat drops out while Britney trills the main "YOU'RE A WOMANIZER OH WOMANIZER OH YOU'RE A WOMANIZER BABY" hook. This track lays a really strong foundation for the fully-realised comeback that didn't quite happen last time and it's hard not to think of it as a late contender for single of the year. Like we said above, it's literally quite good.

I'm glad they mentioned Rachel Stevens' Some Girls because that is one of the best songs so far this century. If Britney's song has a Some Girls-style that's a very good sign.

-British singer, Alesha Dixon, who used to be in a great Brit girl group called Mis-Teeq, who released a song called Scandalous in the US back in 2004, is releasing her second album, but first official album in the UK. The first single is The Boy Does Nothing and Popjustice has a clip. It's catchy (especially the chorus), different, old school, and I love it. I haven't heard the whole thing yet, but I assume I will soon. Here's the link to Popjustice: http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2981&Itemid=206 and if you go to her Myspace, you can hear a one minute clip: http://www.myspace.com/aleshamusic. Check it out! It's wicked good. Her album will be released in the UK in November along with the single.

Music Update!!!

-Here is the cover for the new Girls Aloud single, The Promise that I raved about earlier this week. It just gets better and better each time I listen to it. They all look super vampy and loverly in this photo.

-The Killers will be releasing their new album titled Day & Age on November 25, 2008. The first single is called Human, and will be released on radio September 22. Uber-producer, Stuart Price, is producing the album. He worked magic on Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor a few years ago.

-I heard M.I.A.'s amazing and gritty Paper Planes on a mainstream/Top 40 radio station yesterday, and I was shocked. This is huge, but I also think it could be bad. M.I.A. was always a very indie, edgy artist who no one ever thought could go mainstream, but after this song was used in the Pineapple Express trailer, everyone got into her. I first heard this song back in January and loved it then. They take out the gunshots in the radio version which is not surprising, but really detracts from the song's power. I don't think she'll get a big head though.

-Lady GaGa's debut album, The Fame, will now be released on October 28. I can't wait!

Girls Aloud Return

The lovely British lasses of Girls Aloud premiered their new single, The Promise, on a British radio station Sunday night. At first when I heard the song, I was a little underwhelmed, but then, I listened to it again and realized how catchy and clever it was. It's has a 60's undertone. It's the gals own spin on the 60's soul sound resurgence that has taken place in England in '07 and '08. Sugababes did this with their newest single to, but I like the Girls Aloud song better. The chorus is super catchy and the song really gets going with the second verse. The horns create a great (ba bada bada) groove throughout. The girls voices are in top form. The "you're gonna make me, make me, love you" part winds and spins and leads to "the promise I made, promise I made" part. Very different song for them, and they pull it off. Well done, gals. I can't wait for the new album.

News Galore!

Very exciting music news:

-Sugababes new album will be titled Catfights & Spotlights. I love it. Super fierce album title.

-Girls Aloud new single, The Promise, will be played for the first time Sunday night on British radio. This is their first single from their fifth album coming later this fall. I think they could have released plenty more singles from their last album, 2007's genius Tangled Up, but oh well. New Girls Aloud music is super exciting too.

-Super cool Canadian, London-based band, Dragonette, who I posted about a couple weeks ago, are finally releasing their debut album, Galore, in the US on October 28. I'm so excited. The album features such divine songs as Competition, Take It Like A Man, and I Get Around. Their lead singer is the definition of fierce.

-Deeve extraordinaire, Beyonce, will be releasing her third solo album on November 18. The first single, If I Were a Boy, will be released on Oct. 7

-Apparently, Britney Spears new album will be out by the end of the year as opposed to early next year as was expected. The single should be out at the end of November, and the album should be released in December. Super exciting!

-The Saturdays new album will not be called Taking Back Sunday. Darn. It was such a clever title. Now the title is rather lame: Chasing Lights. Oh well.