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Sugababes - 'Push The Button' and more

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:52 / 07.10.05

I know there are some people here who are established fans of ver Sugababes, and for reasons I might not need to explain, I'm trying to get some new threads started in Music.

'Push The Button' is currently UK #1, and I can't think of a more deserving single. I just can't get over how... light it is, the way it kinda takes electronic pop somewhere slightly different from all the big dirty basslines and pseudo-Gothic-rock stuff (don't get me wrong, I thought I could never get enough of that). It's pastels or dayglos rather than black and red. Sex as something you might just happen to do on a picnic rather than this sinful transgressive thing you have to go to a sleazy basement club for.

And, you know, the whole catchy thing. I know that's not a jaw-dropping insight where a pop song is concerned, but I really do find it difficult to sing anything else at the moment.

12:57 / 07.10.05

It's certianly got some kind of... je ne sais quoi, that I'm liking very much. I can't help feeling that it reminds me of something else (in a good way), but I can't think what. I caught the video the other day whilst flicking channels, and they were all looking very, er... nice. I suppose the song maybe didn't grab me instantly, due to the 'lightness', but after being transfixed to the video, it's achieved earworm status.

I've never owned or heard a whole Sugababes album, but they've definitely made some of my favourite pop songs of recent years and am glad they exist (Hmm, must see what mp3s I can dig out...)

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13:48 / 07.10.05

I can't help feeling that it reminds me of something else (in a good way), but I can't think what.

Bucks Fizz?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

14:31 / 07.10.05

Interestingly enough, although it has knocked the Pussycat Dolls off the number one spot in the sales chart, the latter have trounced them in the airplay stakes, where they languish behind Robbie as well...Radio and TV seem to prefer sleazy, it seems (though the Sugababes video is fairly smutty). Produced by Dallas Austin...I prefer the Marius DeVries sound of theirs, but I guess they have to evolve and the record is as catchy as the chest infection doing the rounds at the moment.

Couldn't help but notice Ms. Dynamite arriving at number 8 in the singles chart and 42 in the albums with the sound of a thousand large Pots and Pans clanging to the hard, cold floor and dislodging a large bell from a mile or so up above the record company.

CLAAANNNNGGGGG....

Back to the Sugababes. Blimey, they've stood the test of time, eh? The ginger one who got chucked out for an ex Atomic Kitten is resigned and releasing new material sometime this year...quite liked her debut solo stuff, but she got dropped...be interesting to hear the new stuff. I think she's been writing with Guy Chambers if I'm not mistaken. Siobhan something or other.

14:43 / 07.10.05

Bucks Fizz?

I'm not ruling it out...

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14:50 / 07.10.05

I think the bridge into the chorus is a pretty direct rip of something from the 60's...it's not 'Something Stupid', which I though it was at first, though it's similar, but there is a track with exactly that rising progression around those changes...I'll get back to you when my alzheimers subsides.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:56 / 07.10.05

though the Sugababes video is fairly smutty

What makes it work is how casual and brightly-coloured and innocent it is - "Is my arse in your groin? I had no idea!"

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:51 / 07.10.05

It's certainly one of the most growy songs of recent years, I thought it was a godawful mistake on the Sugababes part, but on repeated listens I quite like it.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

16:37 / 07.10.05

Likewise, Flowers, I really didn't get it first few times, but it's got that je ne sais quoi as mentioned above.

btw, I only just got your sneaky pic in the photo's thread...you linked one way but not the other.

Is that really you?

19:12 / 07.10.05

As much as I love 'em, it's still not really got to me, this one. I'm finding it a bit lacking in substance - floats through my ears and never manages to grab itself a bit of memory to settle down in.

It might be because of that bit that *totally* sounds like it's from some old song, like Money Shot says. I think I'm more focused on trying to figure out what the hell that's reminding me of than I am listening to it as a song in its own right.

09:34 / 08.10.05

I'm still waiting to like this one too. I really like the Sugababes, but this one seems to plod along. However, I seem of late to have become a slow-burner when it comes to liking music (I've only just started to really like Tricky's Vunerable from a few years ago), so maybe it'll grow on me. However, Rachael Stevens' new single is much better.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:23 / 08.10.05

It's weird, a lot of people seem to really like 'I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)', but I can't really get into it, apart from that astonishing bit where the vocal effects and levels go all weird as she sings "I'd be - better off - WITHOUT YOU". Last night I figured out that maybe the reason I'm not as keen on it as some is because it's very difficult to dance to.

'Crazy Boys', from the new Rachel Stevens album, is amazing however - best thing she's ever done. Just you wait.

D Terminator XXXIII

19:31 / 08.10.05

Push the Button is like a new friend who comes across like an intimate, old friend. I also hear an older song in it but can't really identify what it reminds me of. Me like.

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08:12 / 10.10.05

A dash of 'Young Hearts Run Free'...

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:31 / 10.10.05

I've heard people say that bits of the melody recall bits of both 'Private Dancer' and 'Simply The Best' by Tina Turner, but I can't hear it myself - but that could just be me not being able to hear past a difference in vocal styles.

03:50 / 11.10.05

though the Sugababes video is fairly smutty

What makes it work is how casual and brightly-coloured and innocent it is - "Is my arse in your groin? I had no idea!"

I don't know how you can call this innocent or fairly smutty, the choreography is totally pornographic ('okay now Heidi do it doggy style, Keisha, you sit on his face...'). When the video came on last Saturday I was surprised they would even show it to impressionable young uns. Its the dirtiest pop video I've ever seen, much worse than the PCD who have pretty straight-up lithe-young-popstar dancing. Unless one or the other has a different video in Australia.

04:13 / 11.10.05

I thought it was funny - the announcer was saying something about how the girls had been offered a load of money to appear in a 'lads mag' in bikinis and had refused because nothing would get them to bare their flesh, cut to Heidi in a tight black skirt and tighter red top which left most of her body on show, Mutia in the smallest pair of shorts that I have ever seen and Kiesha in a split dress, all grinding about with random men.

Anyone got the album yet?

04:15 / 11.10.05

Also, sorry for thread rot, what is that Rachael Stevens song all about? It includes some line along the lines of 'I said no no never, we don't go together, I really couldn't take anymore, now it's two weeks later, I feel like such a traitor, I let you in my backdoor' - subtle.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:26 / 11.10.05

I don't know how you can call this innocent or fairly smutty, the choreography is totally pornographic

It's both innocent and pornographic!

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10:53 / 11.10.05

i second the big-up for 'crazy boys' - Richard X has delivered another superior record, and this one sounds like a *Jane* Bond theme, too.

'push the button' is ok, but there's something a bit nice-nice about it, a bit free-floating old-fashioned non-specific pop... whereas 'it ain't easy' from the album takes the twangy backtrack of depeche mode's 'personal jesus' and goes all shuddering, repetitive, *slow* techno over the top.

brightonites please note i played *both* in my second set at It Came from the Sea this month...

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09:01 / 15.12.05

Quite liking that new Dallas Austin Sugababes track...self-esteem lyrics, not sure about the title, but it's pretty pop-mongous.