Sugababes: Classic Or Dud?

Nah - only that Irish one looks like P00. Those 2 remaining look quite tasty to me.

so what do I know" Someone please put some music &/or beatz behind this!!!

best etc.

is this allowed???

I was looking forward to this (arguably the greatest girl band hits album of the 2000's), but not so now that they've airbrushed out sugababes 1.0 in such a stalinist way.
has any other act done this...?

i'm not entirely sure I'd notice the change, but Dammit Jim! its the principle.

yes. this happened within about a WEEK of mutya leaving - I was v impressed with their efficiency.

I probably prefer all the originals, because I've got used to how they sound, and because I really love Mutya's voice in particular (still not heard Amelle's!), but I can't see any point in getting het up about re-recording, especially now that it's been established that this endless cycle of members is What Sugababes Do.

http://s8.invisionfree.com/sugababesuk/index.php?showtopic=4195&st=0

I have the Amelle version of "Red Dress" and it's really not that different. I've heard the original version many times so I'm sensitive to little changes, like her timing is different in places and stuff like that. It's subtle. I've never heard of groups rerecording already-released songs...I don't think Destiny's Child ever did that, and they went through their fair share of switching.

I hadn't noticed before either how Mutya and Keisha's vocals on "Ace Reject" follow completely different melodies, they could have almost made it into two songs. It's like [verse a] [bridge a] [verse b] [bridge b] [chorus] [Heidi's middle eight] [bridge b] [chorus]. But so subtly done!

Sugababes mk 1 = classic
Sugababes mk 2 = classic
Sugababes mk 3 = we'll see

i was talking with frank kogan about how much potential the sugababes had for US crossover - he thinks not much, what with the teenpop market drying up and the sugababes not being quite r&b enough. i really don't know!

that new album cover makes them looks like banarama.

how could that be a bad thing?

its not - the new girl looks hot, keisha looks quite sexable, although heidi looks oddly concerned.

that new album cover makes them looks like banarama.

-- titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 5 October 2007 10:59

TOTALLY otm. i thought exactly that. SURPRISE is your winner off the new album.

Sugababe arrested over 'attack'

Sugababes member Amelle Berrabah has been arrested after an alleged attack on a car in Aldershot, Hampshire.
Police confirmed a 23-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and a public order offence after an incident on 9 January.

She was bailed to appear at Aldershot police station on 21 February.

The pop star joined the successful girl group in 2005. Her boyfriend Freddie Fuller is recovering after being attacked with a machete last month.

The group claimed the number one spots on both the singles and album charts in the UK in October last year, with their latest album Change and single About You Now.

HATE HER

MUTYA 4EVER

http://possumblog.mu.nu/images/basil_fawlty.jpg

'Girls' (as in Here Come The) sounds like it was produced by Fatboy Slim

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a135316/sugababes-glad-to-ditch-electro-image.html

once Classic,

now Dud.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8548338.stm

Mow Mutya want the name back!

she shd call herself the sugababe aka, imo

irl fistpump for mutya, she got the name back!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2195267.stm

I'm a big fan of the Bucks Fizz feud.

http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/sugababes/news/deny-losing-name-mutya-buena/

Oh well. Looking forward to the gift wrap!

"First she came for the wallpaper..."

BACK BACK BACK

blasting one touch in celebration. what a fucking amazing album though!

2-step beats on "same old story" <3 <3

Oh yes!

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/jan2012/8/5/sugababes-reunion-pics-rex-getty-image-1-158705373.jpg
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/jan2012/0/1/sugababes-reunion-pics-rex-getty-image-2-234862336.jpg

weird.

They should call themselves Buchanan Donaghy Buena, then next year get all six together to make an album called 'Coalition'

those were both in the first article i googled when i looked to see what people were talking about in this thread, btw. it seems like a depressing progression as regards 'what female figures in the public eye are expected to look like'. but i can't tell if that's really a genuine thing or if it's an artifact of the second photo being a far more staged occasion; or, if it is a genuine thing, whether it's because the original band was kind of an oddity, & then whether one could imagine that case cropping up these days. hrm.

so so so excited for this! one touch was so formative in my mid-teens.

intruiged to see how they'll go about this, considering what worked so well for the original trio was their youth and precociousness.

not being the other 3 shd work out fine for them this go round

Heidi looks downright terrible in that photo. One Touch is so classic, as good as some of their later singles - esp off Angels + "Push The Button" are - I'm not sure they ever topped the Overload/Run For Cover brace.

it seems like a depressing progression as regards 'what female figures in the public eye are expected to look like'

cf pictures of girls aloud when they first emerged and in their latter days

d'you think it's true as a general thing, lex, or do you think that it was a deliberate and calculated move on the grounds of marketing/record companies/whoever that sugababes and girls aloud circa 2001 had a "look" that was 'resembling actual human beings'

i'm just heading out now so can't expand - i think "looking like ordinary girls" was broadly true in the early 00s, certainly across UK girl groups; but there's also the vexed question of how young pop acts evolve or mature or "grow up", and one of the laziest but most common ways to visually signify that a teenage pop act has grown up is by "going sexy", and this happened to both sugababes and girls aloud (but no "ordinary girls" came along to fill that niche) (until...little mix?!)

They should call themselves Buchanan Donaghy Buena, then next year get all six together to make an album called 'Coalition'

― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Friday, January 6, 2012 1:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sugababes... the Yes of pop! :D

BACK

they look AMAZING and i am hyped

https://twitter.com/MKSOfficial/status/226256172368396288/photo/1

http://cdn.umg3.net/mutyakeishasiobhan/holding/assets/images/mutya.jpghttp://cdn.umg3.net/mutyakeishasiobhan/holding/assets/images/keisha.jpghttp://cdn.umg3.net/mutyakeishasiobhan/holding/assets/images/siobhan.jpg

YES.

I am scared shitless that the result will be less than amazing tho.

also: v poor lack of piling in here ILM (it were all sugababes round here when i were a lad)

First Sunship radio edits, now Sugababes? Is it really time for the early 00s revival? Am I really that old already?

All hail the new Suga overlords.

Now if they need a producer/songwriter I'd just like to volunteer my services... oh wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf0tUnUB27I

Keisha Buchanan
‏@keisha_buchanan
I think we've made a BANGER people #studio with @devhynes #talentedbeyond http://instagr.am/p/VnXBzshd0P/

trolling Lex, very mean.

^ properly excited now!

hiya it's mutya keisha and siobhan on kendrick lamar

http://soundcloud.com/bloodorange/lay-down-in-swimming-pools-by

um holy shit

there's pretty much no excuse for me not to go get the entire Sugarbabes back catalog, right

nope

there is a reason not to get their last two albums cuz they're kinda bad

first three are varying degrees of excellent, though, then just grab "about you now" off the fifth and you're sorted

can't believe dan of all people hadn't done this already!

*first four

I kind of got stuck on "Hole in the Head" and never really moved past it

"hole in the head" is great but i don't think it'd be in my top 10 sugababes songs

... wau

my number one all-time favourite sugababes song is "run for cover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBAXKYIBZ60

that was done when they were like 15; when they were grown, they did my second favourite song by them, "ace reject"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_yX57yrLao

seriously their harmonies under the second chorus and through the ad libs afterwards are slaying me

TOO MUCH
TOO MANY
TOO LITTLE
TIIIIIIIIIIME

if i was POXing my fav sounds in the whole of pop music ever mutya's voice would be in there without hesitation

"lay down in swimming pools" has such a great sense of build - the way they hold the main hook back until three minutes, until just after siobhan's ghostly bridge, and then you've got keisha triumphantly telling you how i'mma show you how to turn it up a notch

this is just an incredibly great piece of music

"flatline" is imminent

"imminent" a little misleading but it is here at last https://soundcloud.com/mutyakeishasiobhan/flatline

Not sure I'm massively keen on the song, but the girls sound gorgeous.

I prefer Lay Down in Swimming Pools TBH

unsurprisingly I am very into this - particularly enjoying Siobhan's sublime middle eight replete w/ hounds of love drums, and the wonderful couplet "THE CHANGE WAS OBVIOUS / SO MISCELLANEOUS"

this is more pop MKS than r&b MKS...I like both but I can see why people who liked the Lamar thing won't like this. It's kind of Florence-y I suppose, only instead of her horrible hollering you have three of the finest pop voices ever harmonising gloriously

It’s…hmm, well it‘s good to hear Mutya singing again. Ugh at the brickwall limiting, I got fatigue just listening to the first minute.

Good to have them back, but hopefully this is one of the weaker ones.

The guitars and drums sound a lot like Foals or something (I don't mind that at all tbh). Voices sound great!

lol there are two Sugababes: Classic Or Dud? threads, a fact only brought to my attention by reviving the other one just now.

I'm not sure about this yet. Everything up to before the chorus is great but then... I don't know, there should be a solo part and then backing vocals, but all three Sugababes harmonizing is a bit too much. Plus the melody is a little weak, just on the chorus.

their voices sound so good, i think they might be even better vocalists now than in their first incarnation. the song isn't a disappointment, will have to see if it grows on me more though...

I was expecting a little bit more from this. The production is nice and their vocals do sound great but it's a bit forgettable. I feel like Sugababes have done something like this before with better results, maybe something like Ace Reject?

I agree with Monotony the Hounds of Love drums and the middle eight are the best part of the song.

agjhshjkajhakskj their gig tonight

TRIUMPHANT

tom wrote a really excellent thing about the lineup for maura mag http://www.mauramagazine.com/article/5203be6fc873d929805a36f5/one_way_ticket

this performance is so goodddd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atW3VRJddY

it really is

that said I'm not sure i've ever seen such aggressively placed ads on a YouTube video in my entire life

That was a total blast. <3