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You’ve heard of The Pussycat Dolls, All Saints and Spice Girls, but what about Girls Aloud?

I used to consider myself a huge anglophile, but apparently not big enough, cause I’d never heard of Girls Aloud before a friend of mine urged me to listen to their latest album, Tangled Up, which just came out last Tuesday.

Sometimes huge British phenomenons never make it to our continent, and Girls Aloud are a great example of this. All of their albums have gone platinum or double platinum in the UK and they’ve had 17 top 10 hits. Somehow though they just haven’t found a North American audience…which is weird, considering the popularity of other all female groups…

So far there have been two singles on Tangled Up and both are terrific: Sexy No No No… and Call The Shots. It’s pure, unadulterated sexy pop. A really great album – I have to give it a few more listens but I can quickly see it nudging Blonde Redhead‘s 23 out of the tenth spot on my Best Of 2007 list.

Facts:
* Girls Aloud formed as a result of the 2002 series Popstars: The Rivals
* Girls Aloud hold multiple records – among them, the record for the shortest time between formation as a group and reaching number one in the UK Charts (for the single Sound of the Underground)
* On the Japanese version of Lily Allen‘s debut album Alright, Still, the song Cheryl Tweedy refers to Girls Aloud member Cheryl Cole (nee Tweedy). [P.S.: This is an incredible song and I always wondered who the hell Cheryl Tweedy was!]
* In 2008 the girls will star in a television series called Passions – the premise of the show will be for each girl to achieve something that they have always wanted to do in life (polo, a cosmetics line, street dancing, you name it).

Links:
MySpace: Girls Aloud
Official Site: Girls Aloud
Videos: YouTube Channel

Photograph Courtesy Getty Images

Posted on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 12:58 pm by Alison and is filed under MuchRadar.

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