actually Matt's accidentally right, the chorus kinda sounds like the Ting Tings "Shut Up And Watch Me Go," if that's the title, and indeed by them.
― all cats are gay (sic), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
song completely rules; whatever
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I like this single a lot. The other new songs sound really good too, Lucky Day sounds like it should be the next single.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
in with a bullet at number 27 :/supposedly there's no physical release yet because of this whole 'on air on sale' thing. confusing innit.
― piscesx, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like the song a lot but I have to kind of avert my attention from the song while this bit is going on.
That pre-chorus.. it doesn't sound like the melody and the music behind it even remotely fit together.
That bit just doesn't need to be there.
― owenf, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 09:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
B-side >>> A-side
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Saturday, 9 July 2011 00:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I prefer the single but that B-side is really great. I really hope she does well, I'm looking forward to the album so much.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 9 July 2011 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
for me nicola was easily the best thing @ t4 on the beach yesterday.a setup that i would never have expected to find myself at a few years ago, but hey, someone has to be the designated driver for the teenkid.never again though.
― mark e, Monday, 11 July 2011 07:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
the intro/middle 8 makes the bside sound better than it actually is.
― owenf, Monday, 11 July 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Poor Nicola. The director of her next video put a rough cut up on Vimeo. Now the song is all over the web more than a month before it's due to release.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Friday, 29 July 2011 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Assuming you're talking about "Lucky Day," I've only heard a snippet...but the fact that it's a Dragonette composition (and, perhaps, production) is reason to cheer.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 July 2011 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like it a little bit more than "Beat of My Drum", having heard the whole thing.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Friday, 29 July 2011 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
lucky day is amazing, my pop song of the year so far by miles
anyone know what the next single is set to be?
― NI, Monday, 29 August 2011 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the album yet?
― Gukbe, Monday, 29 August 2011 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I read that Yoyo was going to be a future single, not sure if it's the next one or not though.
I do like Lucky Day but around the two minute mark I find myself struggling with her vocals a bit which is odd as I've always thought she had the best voice in Girls Aloud.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 29 August 2011 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
That should be Yo-Yo by the way.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 29 August 2011 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm also having some problems with Nicola's voice lately. I find it almost a little off-key sometimes. For instance the "...oooh, don't I make your heart go wow" bit in Beat Of My Drum and the way she sings "Daaaaay" in Lucky Day.
― daavid, Monday, 29 August 2011 22:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Where/when did you listen to yo yo, Kitchen Person?
― daavid, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok what are "disco blisters"
― thomp, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
blisters from dancing too much in non-sensible shoes?
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually I've not heard Yo-Yo yet I think I read about it in a Pop Justice interview where they said it was an obvious single, not sure if it's leaked at all. There was talk of another song called Dance In The Rain being a single too but that doesn't seem to be on the album.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
the zoom zoom zoom bit in lucky day is pop at its absolute best
― NI, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
and the mwah mwah mwah and the boom boom boom and all them. great to see dragonette finding their niche - they had the hooks but really didn't convince as a pop act in their own right. hope they've written more songs on the album
― NI, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I thought beat of my drum was good but lucky day is tremendous
― dayo, Monday, 5 September 2011 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
They should have made the Snap "bootleg" the single mix, probably.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2011 00:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Sticks and Stones" off the album is pretty stunning.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Thursday, 15 September 2011 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
So this album isn't quite the masterpiece I was hoping it would be but it's pretty enjoyable on the whole. Sticks and Stones is a beautiful end to the album but I think Say it Out Loud is my favourite overall.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 25 September 2011 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Say It Out Loud" is excellent, prob the second best (and why it wasn't the first single I don't know, that or "Yo-yo"), but the best song is surely "Gladiator".
I mean, these lyrics!
I had to call the firemen, my head was burning bridgesI'm shooting bullets from my chest, I'm Superwoman, bitchesAnd if my balls of steel have got stuck halfway down your pipeI've got some KY, time to open open open wide
If only the whole album were as good as that! I mean, it's pretty good, but I'm really not feeling the Metronomy tracks, and I love Metronomy (and the song Joseph Mount did with Sophie Ellis-Bextor was fantastic) so far.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 26 September 2011 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also I'm down with Mondeo Pop in all its forms, but really, there have been ENOUGH covers of "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" already, Nic.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 26 September 2011 08:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyway, the reasons "Say It Out Loud" should have been the first single are that it bridges Girls Aloud to Nicola Roberts perfectly. Her singing on the verses is immediately familiar and reassuring, it hits the "awkward girl comes good" much more articulately and catchily than "Beat", and it sounds like radio might actually have played it.
Shame that yet another "I wanted to showcase something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT" single choice means this album likely won't sell when a few of the songs off it are pretty brilliant in their own right. I mean, Beyonce can get on the radio with "Run The World" because she's Beyonce, nobody else could get away with that in 2011 (much the same was as Madonna could put out "Justify My Love" and "Erotica" and people still bought them, but you've got to be that famous, and Nicola isn't).
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 26 September 2011 09:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Lucky Day" came into the charts at no. 40 :( :(
― Rory's new misogynist car (Gukbe), Monday, 26 September 2011 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
girls aloud solo = so much pointlessness
cheryl cole: all the charisma, character and ability to convey emotion of a plank of woodnicola: shrill, awful ~quirk~ inexplicably beloved of A Certain Type Of Personnadine: did anyone anywhere give the tiniest shit?
for once i appear to be in step with the public on nicola, though bafflingly they seem to love cheryl
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 September 2011 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
does nicola always look so sad, is my question
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like this album but even i have to admit that those Certain People who will say this album is the Best Thing Ever are .... uh baffling weirdos. Scary pop fanboys scare me these days... people who if they had slightly more depth would be crazy Tori Amos stans.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 26 September 2011 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Scary pop fanboys scare me these days
send 'em back to poland I say
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Monday, 26 September 2011 23:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
on first listen this is pretty bloodless outside of the first two singles
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
nicola: shrill, awful ~quirk~ inexplicably beloved of A Certain Type Of Person
― lex pretend, Monday, September 26, 2011 5:21 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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prime trolling, guys
― thomp, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this reminds me a lot of when the last siobhan donaghy record came out. although there's not a lot to the comparison; ginger pop singer i find attractive from pop group releases slightly 'arty'/'difficult' record, is not a success
― thomp, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doesn't it have to be in a thread read by, y'know, someone, to count as trolling?
Siobhan Donaghy is a pretty good comparison actually, speaking as to why the record won't sell very well.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 06:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like this record.
― thomp, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
like this 1 a lot
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 October 2011 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I like that + say it out loud
besides the sginesl
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Sunday, 9 October 2011 23:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
sticks + stones should be covered by nicki minaj
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 April 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink