I bet you won’t find many Music Editors (even of student mags) proclaiming their love of a girl band from the rooftop, let alone their music pages. But I am. I suppose it isn’t cool to listen to a manufactured band, especially one put together by a television show and even worse, by Louis Walsh. But I don’t care.
Of course, I could have used up the space to tell you of some other great bands I love and why you should listen to them too. The Smiths, Blondie, Belle and Sebastian, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles to name but a few that I daily listen to, admire and worship. However, I am aware that most of the music featured here is usually of the indie/alternative persuasion. That’s not any attempt by the ************ team to force our musical tastes onto the student population. It just happens to be the genre of CD’s that gets sent to us a lot. Also, people seem to be more passionate about indie at the moment and live gigs are at their most popular than they have been in the past fifty years. So lets have a bit of a change and express the love for pop.
Girls Aloud have been around for five years now making some of the most exciting and catchy music around. From the breakthrough funkiness of ‘Sound of the Underground’ to feisty ‘Biology’, the girls have constantly reinvented themselves with every single. After four albums (and a Greatest Hits), the girls have entered the Guinness book of records as the girl group with the most ever consecutive top ten singles, beating the likes of the Spice Girls and Destiny’s Child. Their live shows are breathtaking with amazing production and choreography, putting the ordinary concert to shame.
Okay, so some of the band members might be more famous for their tabloid exploits than the music but that’s mainly due to the nature of the media these days, taking five young women and manipulating an image for them. So they go and have a few drinks now and again, who doesn’t? It’s not their fault there’s a camera lens strategically aimed for that all-important ‘getting out of a taxi shot’. And maybe they don’t write their music, but to me that doesn’t matter. They don’t pretend to. Instead they are five girls who have achieved their dreams by performing and sometimes with two fingers up the industry machine and moguls which has created them.
Of course, I could have used up the space to tell you of some other great bands I love and why you should listen to them too. The Smiths, Blondie, Belle and Sebastian, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles to name but a few that I daily listen to, admire and worship. However, I am aware that most of the music featured here is usually of the indie/alternative persuasion. That’s not any attempt by the ************ team to force our musical tastes onto the student population. It just happens to be the genre of CD’s that gets sent to us a lot. Also, people seem to be more passionate about indie at the moment and live gigs are at their most popular than they have been in the past fifty years. So lets have a bit of a change and express the love for pop.
Girls Aloud have been around for five years now making some of the most exciting and catchy music around. From the breakthrough funkiness of ‘Sound of the Underground’ to feisty ‘Biology’, the girls have constantly reinvented themselves with every single. After four albums (and a Greatest Hits), the girls have entered the Guinness book of records as the girl group with the most ever consecutive top ten singles, beating the likes of the Spice Girls and Destiny’s Child. Their live shows are breathtaking with amazing production and choreography, putting the ordinary concert to shame.
Okay, so some of the band members might be more famous for their tabloid exploits than the music but that’s mainly due to the nature of the media these days, taking five young women and manipulating an image for them. So they go and have a few drinks now and again, who doesn’t? It’s not their fault there’s a camera lens strategically aimed for that all-important ‘getting out of a taxi shot’. And maybe they don’t write their music, but to me that doesn’t matter. They don’t pretend to. Instead they are five girls who have achieved their dreams by performing and sometimes with two fingers up the industry machine and moguls which has created them.
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